A Reddit user's brand new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D seems to have bit the dust post-install, with burn marks reminiscent of 7800X3D issues.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the best gaming processor currently on the market and a much better option than the new Intel Core Ultra 9 285K. If you're waiting for a discount on this processor for Black Friday, though, don't hold your breath. It's very unlikely the price will drop before the end of the year.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a gaming powerhouse and is probably the best processor release of the year amid a host of fairly underwhelming releases. It's not perfect, and I don't like the increased power use or the increase in price,

AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is devastatingly fast and not just in games. But should you buy it or the Ryzen 7 7800X3D?

Now, AMD introduces a newly evolved version of its 3D V-Cache technology, targeted mainly at PC gamers and showing up first in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D ($479) desktop CPU. This processor features a robust secondary on-die component with 64MB of cache,

Pictures of the burned chips appeared on Reddit and QuasarZone in the past couple of days. Both CPUs are Ryzen 7 9800X3Ds, the model that has been rocking the CPU landscape with its out-of-the-gate performance and overclock ability.