Software Bug Lets You Overclock AMD's 5800X3D to Death In Seconds

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Igor's Lab has discovered a major glitch in the MSI Center Windows app that allows AMD's best CPU for gaming, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, to be overvolted and overclocked beyond its limits. At first glance, this looks like a win for enthusiasts and overclockers. However, the application bypasses all artificial voltage and clock speed limitations altogether, turning this into a real danger for imprudent 5800X3D owners. To make matters worse, this issue was also discovered in Asus, Gigabyte, and ASRock software, marking this as a platform-wide issue.

Igor of Igor's Lab was able to demonstrate the danger of this bug with his own 5800X3D. After overvolting the chip to 1.3v and beyond with MSI Center, the 5800X3D reportedly died almost immediately. We don't know how the chip died specifically, but apparently Igor pushed the core voltage past 1.3v after two manual adjustments. The PC immediately shut down after the second voltage adjustment and never booted back up.

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We have no deadline for a possible fix, but we are confident AMD will get to the bottom of this as soon as possible -- especially since YouTuber Der8aur killed a 7950X3D while fiddling with similar settings less than two weeks ago. 

Whether the fix will come in a new AGESA microcode update, chipset update, or software-side change is unclear. For now though, if you own a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, just be cautious when rummaging around your motherboard's overclocking software, and don't tweak any overclocking settings.

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