“AMD Ryzen 7000X3D and ASUS Motherboards: Mysterious Hardware Problems Cause Computers to Freeze”

It is not clear where exactly the problem is. AMD does not recommend overclocking for processors with 3D V-Cache, however, for example, the aforementioned user did not overclock the processor and only used the EXPO memory overclocking profile. It could be a matter of AMD processors, but then the question is why all the documented cases happened on Asus boards. The speculation here is that these boards are putting more voltage into the CPUs than they should, causing the 3D V-Cache in these CPUs to not hold up and causing the burn that is in the same location on these CPUs.

The case of the Ryzen 7 7700X processor, which does not have 3D V-Cache, and in its case the burned area was in an unusually different position, brings even more ambiguity to the whole situation. And to make it even more confusing, this case happened on an ASRock board. It’s hard to judge now what the source of the problem is, and we’ll probably have to wait for some time to find out.