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Bought the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and it ran great for a few weeks—until it died mid-game with no warning. Screen went black, and the system wouldn’t post again. I swapped the motherboard, RAM, PSU, and even tried a different cooler, but nothing worked until I put in a different CPU. That confirmed it: this chip failed under normal use.
Now I’m stuck waiting for AMD’s RMA process. No overclocking, no abuse—just a clean build that randomly failed.
Extremely disappointed. Not worth the risk for such an expensive processor.
