It allegedly blamed AMD, too, but this could be the first admission that ASRock motherboards specifically have a problem with X3D chips.

To enhance user experience, ASRock promptly released the latest 3.20 Beta BIOS for its AM5 series motherboards, further improving AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors boot issues.

Another AMD Ryzen 9950X3D has died inside an ASRock motherboard. This marks the second reported instance of that CPU failing in such a way, but it joins over 100 recorded instances of 9800X3D CPUs ...