u/MKPCS

Hello!

So a couple of weeks ago my PC wouldn't boot. I tried every troubleshoot in the book, and finally determined that my CPU is cooked... It was an ASRock B850 Riptide paired with a 9800X3D, built in april of 2025. No problems up until its untimely demise, RIP.

Now I have a new CPU arriving tomorrow, decided to go with a 9850X3D, purely because I got a better deal for it.

The question I have is;

Do I just go for it and use my new CPU with the same mobo? Or do I hold off an order a completely different mobo, say a Gigabyte or MSI one? From what I've read this sudden death unfortunately seems to be not too uncommon and more so with the lesser mobo brands.