AM5 CPU Failure Thread

Hi pcmoon, as I said in your reply to the Taichi White thread, I am afraid I don't
have availability info. If your country has a localization on the ASRock website
you can check the "where to buy" section specific to your country. There is a
small spherical icon at the top right of the website that allows you to pick
your region. Select the region nearest you and then click the "where to buy"
link and see if the board you are looking for is listed by any of them.

For what it's worth, the X870e Taichi White edition is not available in
Greece, Bulgaria or Romania yet at the time of writing this, 7th October 2026.
I suspect it will show up in local EU stores but I have no idea when I am afraid.

As for AM5 CPU failures, that is tough to answer satisfactorily. Will your CPU
die on you£ That I can't answer, it will depend on the CPU you get. Will your
ASRock board kill it, that I can answer, no, it won't. Current failures are happening
across all manufacturers at more or less an equal rate. Talking about failures
in this way makes it sound incredibly common, it isn't. AM5 9k CPUs have a higher
than normal failure rate yes but according to the available data, the failure rate
is still well within what is considered acceptable. Far more intel 14th gen CPUs
died for example.

In the end, your warranty is your safety net and AMD is being very good with
AM5 CPU RMA requests as a result of the initial issues the 9k series experienced.

I hope this answers your questions