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UE5 shader compile times are getting ridiculous but intel can advertise this to their advantage

God of War E Day is yet another example of terribly long shader compile times on UE5 and the trend will only continue as more and more games start to adopt it. There's already many videos that showed older CPU's with less threads and slower threads taking 20 to 30 MINUTES to compile shaders before playing the game. And remember every game patch or update you have to recompile them again! Enshrouded was the worst offender for this and still is.

Now an interesting thought sprung to mind about this whole shader compile time mess we find ourselves in. Intel could advertise the heck out of their CPU gaming division in showing how their massive core counts can greatly reduce shader compile times in games vs Ryzen in terms of price to performance core ratio you get with them.

I know it probably won't happen but if I were there I'd be having a field day marketing this and mocking AMD shader compile times in benchmark comparisons.

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u/Hytht — 6 days ago
▲ 1.1k r/TechHardware+1 crossposts

RIP RYZEN 7 7700x

Another Dead RYZEN CPU in the shop today.

(UPDATED LIST BELOW!)

First one in a couple months, actually. Sometimes I get 2 in a week though.

That beings the 2026 total to 13, I think.

ASUS TUF B650 PLUS WiFi.

Edit:

Fixed that phone-induced typo. Forgive me Reddit, I WILL do better.

Yes, I work in a shop. These are customer’s dead CPU’s, I didn’t manage to kill 13 different RYZEN CPU’s spanning 9 generations in my pc at home so far this year.

These dead AMD RYZEN CPU’s span every product tier from budget to flagship, and come from myriad build types, from cheap pre-builts (mostly HP, but that’s probably coincidence…?), to DIY home builds, to balls-out custom gaming PC’s from reputable SI’s like Cyberpower. I’ll start keeping track of the PSU’s they die on from now on too if y’all want, but spoiler: it’s all of them!

UPDATE:

For those of you curious for the whole list, here it is:

Turns out this 7700x was the 20th RYZEN this year, here’s the full list of dead CPU’s so far for 2026:

RYZEN:

9-5900X 7-5800XT 5-5600XT 7-9800X3D 3-3200G 5-7600X 5-5600G 5-5600X 5-5600G 5-5900X 7-5800XT 3-3200G 5-5600XT 7-9800X3D 9-5950X 5-7600X 5-7600X 5-5600X 5-1600 and, last but not least, yesterday’s 7-7700X

Intel:

i7-10700K i9-13900K i9-13900KF

u/Hytht — 21 days ago
▲ 106 r/TechHardware+1 crossposts

I am a i9 14900k survivor, and just became victim of the 9800X3D + Asrock motherboard issue. Am I the unluckiest PC user?

2024-2025 I bought my first pre-built PC, and I suffered through 2 faulty i9 14900ks over the course of 10 months, the whole experience nearly put me in my grave. I swore off intel and nearly swore off PC building as a whole, but ultimately I decided to just spend the money to switch to an AMD build. With the reccomendations of the guys at microcenter I put together a new build with a 9800X3D on an Asrock X870 Steel Legend motherboard (screaming in retrospect).

Well, it happened, earlier this week the motherboard failed spontaneously and took my CPU with it. I just got back from spending $600+ at microcenter for a new MoBo and new 9800x3D. I'm feeling pretty shitty about it all, does anyone have any similar PC building experiences?

In a way, I hope I am alone in my misfortune cuz this shit sucks.

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u/FrancMaconXV — 24 days ago
▲ 981 r/TechHardware+2 crossposts

I scanned a full year of Reddit for X3D chips dying on AM5 boards (207 cases found, broken down by brand)

Hey everyone,

I kept seeing posts about X3D chips dying on AM5 boards (especially the ASRock ones lately), and I couldn't tell if it was actually a wave or just the same few stories getting reposted. So I got a bit obsessed and wrote a little bot to go through a full year of Reddit and count the cases properly. Wanted to share what I found and get your thoughts.

How it works, roughly:

The bot searches Reddit (a bunch of relevant subs like r/AMD, r/AmdHelp, r/buildapc, r/overclocking, r/ASRock, r/hardware… plus a global search) for every X3D model (7800X3D, 9800X3D, 9950X3D and the rest) combined with a big list of "death" words: dead, died, fried, killed, bricked, DOA, RMA, "no post", "won't boot", "black screen", "burn marks", and so on. It runs each search across different sort orders (new, top, relevance, comments) so it doesn't miss stuff, and it covers about the last 12 months.

The tricky part was filtering. I made it strict, a post only counts if the title has all three of these at once : an AM5 X3D CPU, a death/failure word, and a motherboard (a chipset like B650/B850/X670/X870, or a brand, or just the word "motherboard"). I also explicitly throw out AM4 stuff and anything that's really about a GPU/monitor/game. Then some regex pulls out the brand, chipset and model (Taichi, Tomahawk, ProArt, etc.) for each post.

I know being strict on the title means I lose some real cases where the board is only mentioned in the body, that was a conscious trade-off, I'd rather miss a few than post a list full of junk.

The manual pass:
After all that I still had 300+ hits, so I went through every single one by hand and deleted the false positives (jokes, user error that got fixed, duplicates, unrelated failures). What was left were genuine "X3D died on an AM5 board" reports.

The results (by motherboard brand):

  • ASRock : 145
  • ASUS : 44
  • MSI : 11
  • Gigabyte : 7

So 207 cleaned reports in total, and ASRock is way out in front with about 70% of them. Obviously this is Reddit, not lab data, so take it for what it is, but the gap is hard to ignore.

I put everything in a Google Sheet (with the direct links to each post and the extracted details) in case you want to dig through it yourselves, happy to share it : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/144FB3ZXgIE8o7gQi5_22JkWR8xa_HIRSxt3c52X06Us/edit?usp=sharing

A few things I'd love help with, since I'm sure my method has holes:

- What keywords or title phrasings am I probably missing?
- Any subreddits I should add?
- Best way to handle duplicates / people posting updates about the same chip?
- Anything about the method that would obviously skew the numbers (relevance bias, deleted posts, etc.)?

Anyway, thanks for reading, and thanks to everyone who's been documenting their failures, that's the only reason this was possible. Appreciate any feedback.

u/Healthy_Try4444 — 2 months ago
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AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable — security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change

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u/Hytht — 2 months ago
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HP and Ferrari Design studio pick Intel over AMD for limited edition 4,999 units PC with Rosso Magma finish, a carbon fiber and Corning Gorilla Glass bottom cover

We also had last year's laptop with the best display (colors and brightness): the Yoga Pro 9i Aura edition Tandem OLED with Intel. All the best Windows premium laptop chassis's goes to team blue. Zephyrus duo 2026 with two displays: Also Intel.

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u/Hytht — 3 months ago
▲ 356 r/TechHardware+1 crossposts

No FSR4 in 007 - WTF

I really hope that this is a bug that can be fixed before the game launches, because I am not buying this game if it does not have FSR4.

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u/Hytht — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/TechHardware

9800X3D bottlenecked at 63 FPS in Forza Horizon 6

RT loads in future games need more than just 8 cores and a fat cache. Should have used the 270K Plus in which all 24 cores can work together efficiently.

*bottlenecks not bottlenecked

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u/Hytht — 3 months ago