ASRock Motherboard Team Believes That Overly Fierce PBO Settings Have Damaged Ryzen 9000 CPUs

The Ryzen 9000 series of AMDs, which has just arrived on the market, is already experiencing a major technical controversy. This is not the first time that we are talking about it, several users report unexpected failures of their processors, especially on ASRock motherboards. The case, which has grown in scope at the beginning of the year, has intensified further with [...] The article Too aggressive PBO problems: ASRock recognizes damage on th…

ASRock Motherboard Team Believes That Overly Fierce PBO Settings Have Damaged Ryzen 9000 CPUs

Earlier this month, Bryan Bilowol—of Tech YES City fame—was taken aback by the unexpected "death" of his Ryzen 9 9950X processor, at the alleged hands of an ASRock X870 Steel Legend motherboard. Throughout early 2025, widespread news reports and community tracking efforts have largely implicated ASRock boards. AMD's highly popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU has "fallen victim" on numerous occasions, but a smaller number of incidents have affecte…

The YouTubeur Tech Yes City finally obtained the definitive answers concerning the problems of degradation encountered with certain Ryzen 9000 processors on ASRock motherboards. During the Computex 2025, he directly questioned the engineers of the brand, who provided him with precise explanations. Initially, several hypotheses were circulating: some evoked abnormal tensions at the SoC level, others spoke of a memory incompatibility. However, acc…

According to reports about defective Ryzen-9000 CPUs on Asrock mainboards, the manufacturer was able to detect the problem and fix it via BIOS update.

The controversy continues, and as we saw in previous articles, there is a clear relationship between the deaths and burns of the Ryzen 7000 and Ryzen 9000 with the ASRock motherboards, where today we know that the EDC, TDC and PBO in general are the alleged culprits. The information came last night and from the same that put into question the new bill BIOS that solved the problem, where from COMPUTEX 2025 the company confirmed many of the fears.…

ASRock PBO Settings Linked to Ryzen 9000 CPU Failures

In its latest BIOS update, ASRock has realigned hidden voltage parameters—known as “shadow voltages”—and reset Electric Design Current (EDC) and Thermal Design Current (TDC) limits to adhere to AMD’s design specifications for Ryzen 9000 processors.