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

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

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 shuts down after the second voltage adjustment and never boots back up.

For the uninitiated, AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D is the first CPU to feature AMD’s game-boosting 3D-VCache technology. The tech adds a 64MB slab of L3 cache right on top of the Zen 3 die, boosting the chip’s L3 capacity to 96MB. However, this additional L3 cache severely affects the CPU’s heat dissipation, forcing the chip to operate at lower frequencies.

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