By subjecting your processor to extreme (and often unrealistic) workloads, these tools ensure that your system won't run into issues in the middle of your gaming session. Intel Burn Test and ...

Now, another isolated case has appeared, this time involving the same AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, which also shows signs of burn damage on the CPU contacts and motherboard pins. This time ...

A bent pin touching the wrong CPU contact can also cause a short-out and explain the burn marks. The Redditor confirmed that he only enabled the AMD EXPO profile for his memory. We can't ...