ASUS calms all of its customers’ fears regarding voided warranties, over-volting and torched CPUs.
If you follow hardware news at all, you are surely aware of the “exploding CPU” issue surrounding the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and certain Socket AM5 motherboards, particularly (but not exclusively) those from the ASUS ROG family. If you’re not familiar, that’s basically the gist of it right there: certain motherboards, when the memory is overclocked, run the processor with an excessively high SoC voltage that, in combination with a cascade of other failures, can make your processor literally explode.It’s a somewhat unlikely scenario, but it’s feasible enough that it’s happened to a small handful of people. Even if your CPU doesn’t blow up and take the motherboard with it, the high SoC voltage can degrade your processor much more quickly than usual. Tech tubers Gamers Nexus were able to replicate the issue, and exploded one of their own precious Ryzen 7 7800X3D chips in the process.The original disclaimer on ASUS’ beta BIOS update.
Well, no big deal in the long run, right? Just put out a BIOS update that resolves the issue and carry on. Except that the BIOS updates that ASUS put out came with a disclaimer which you can read above. Perhaps it’s poorly-written, or perhaps users were simply misunderstanding the disclaimer, but the consensus among fans was that the disclaimer implies a voided motherboard warranty upon installing the beta BIOS updates.ASUS has now come out and very specifically stated that this isn’t the case.
