We've been reporting on toasted AMD AM5 CPU sockets for a while now. Back in April, a Reddit thread catalogued over 100 dead CPUs. AMD then told us, "Following a joint investigation, AMD and ASRock identified a memory compatibility issue present in earlier BIOS versions, which has been rectified in the latest BIOS."
However, in a new interview with Korean website Quasar Zone (via Tom's Hardware), AMD has somewhat changed its tune. AMD's David McAfee and Travis Kirsch said (they're quoted as one, so it's not clear who exactly said what, and also note this is a machine translation from Korean), "this issue arises because some ODM BIOSes do not adhere to AMD's recommended values."
