Ryzen 9950X CPUs Damaged During GMP Testing - Investigation Report
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Summary
The article reports that two Ryzen 9950X CPUs (AMD Zen 5 architecture) have been damaged while running GMP (GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library) tests. The author provides detailed information about the failures, including motherboard specifications, cooling solutions, and test conditions, but the exact cause remains unknown. The issue appears to be specific to running GMP software on these particular CPUs, and it's not related to the widely reported Asrock motherboard problems. The author is sharing this information to help analyze and understand the problem.
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What causes these CPUs to die while running GMP is unknown to us.
It might be that the Zen 5 CPUs pull more power than specified when running GMP, or it might be that our cooling solutions are inadequate.
This is not expected, of course. In this page, we provide as much information as possible to help analysing the problem.
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