The amount of times I've reinstalled windows 10 windows 11 no joy games still keep crashing to desktop...then I find this (bearing in mind my motherboard is an asrock x870e nova).... https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...ls-the-cpu-and-damages-the-motherboard-socket
Psu is fine buddy, new 1200w corsair, everything was fine with the 7800x3d...soon as I install the 9800x3d all goes tit's up
You do a new install of windows with the CPU upgrade? Refresh drivers or anything? They're quite different CPUs, of windows thinks it's controlling a 7800x3d it will go tits up
Is the bios up to date on the motherboard? https://pg.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X870E Nova WiFi/index.asp#BIOS
He tried to swap the CPU without completely removing the cooler, and not being able to fully open the retention bracket, in doing so he bent a pin backwards. https://forums.bit-tech.net/index.php?threads/aio.387543/ Although whether that was putting the 9800x3d in, or swapping back to the 7800x3d is unknown. He was trying to run ram at 6600 on the 9800x3d, which is not gonna happen unless you landed a golden sample. Plus there's the shenanigans with 9800x3d not playing nice on ASRock boards, as recently reported by gn
