In order to allay concerns about Ryzen 7000 burnout, AMD seeds a new AGESA and ensures that its functionality won't be hampered by EXPO or PBO

Photo Credit: DSO Gaming AMD has released an official explanation that it is distributing AGESA upgrades to board partners that can assist minimize the issue in response to growing fears that Ryzen 7000 series CPUs could burn out and destroy the motherboard along with them. Users claim that after setting EXPO memory profiles, they began experiencing dead CPUs, although AMD's reply indicates that EXPO and PBO capabilities will continue to function as planned. We've been hearing stories of AMD Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs unexpectedly burning out and damaging the board along with them during the past several days. Popular overclocker Der8auer (Roman Hartung) has observed same issues with a Ryzen 9 7900X non-X3D CPU. In order to temporarily ameliorate the issue, board suppliers have responded by releasing BIOS upgrades solutions. Photo Credit: The Verge Initially, it was believed that the issue was caused by EXPO profiles, maybe because enabling EXPO causes the SoC and VDDIO/MC voltages to surge to 1.36–1.4 V or even 1.5 V, which instantly kills the CPU. Affected consumers reported that their CPU swelled up at specific contact areas, which caused both the motherboard and the processor to die. We've been hearing stories of AMD Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs unexpectedly burning out and damaging the board along with them during the past several days. Popular overclocker Der8auer (Roman Hartung) has observed same issues with a Ryzen 9 7900X non-X3D CPU. In order to temporarily ameliorate the issue, board suppliers have responded by releasing BIOS upgrades solutions. Initially, it was believed that the issue was caused by EXPO profiles, maybe because enabling EXPO causes the SoC and VDDIO/MC voltages to surge to 1.36–1.4 V or even 1.5 V, which instantly kills the CPU. Affected consumers reported that their CPU swelled up at specific contact areas, which caused both the motherboard and the processor to die. Also Read: The official Sony Expo 2023 announcement contains a potential Xperia 1 V release date The AMD customer service line should be contacted by anyone whose CPU may have been affected by this problem. The situation is known to our customer service team, and they are giving these instances priority. Which power rails are impacted by this change is not quite apparent. Although AMD claims that Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) and EXPO RAM overclocking won't be impacted, activating EXPO speeds actually counts as pushing the CPU past its limits. Furthermore, it is unclear how widespread the issue is and whether AMD and its partners plan to swap out faulty CPUs and boards. However, AMD makes it clear in its reviewer instructions that DDR5-6000, just like DDR4-3600, is the ideal memory speed for Ryzen 7000.