[Jhsto]

Anecdotally, ASRock has been blamed also by Intel for shipping motherboards with NIC debug settings on: https://community.intel.com/t5/Ethernet-Products/1-out-of-2-...

[SketchySeaBeast]

The fact that the vast majority of these burnouts are on ASRock is a pretty big smoking gun to me. They're an attractive manufacturer because they're cheap, but at what cost?

[tempest_]

They are not always cheap though. They have been moving upmarket a bit the last 5 years.

[Xss3]

Ive always liked asrock because they had a lot of control in the bios

[tester756]

My Ryzen recently died on Gigabyte.

[SketchySeaBeast]

Damn. What chip was it, and how long did you have it? Did you do anything to it (overclock, change the voltage)?

[tester756]

Ryzen 7 5700X3D

>and how long did you have it?

9 months

>Did you do anything to it (overclock, change the voltage)?

Nothing, I just enabled resizable bar in bios and that's it