Following widespread complaints about Ryzen 7000X3D and Ryzen 7000 SoC suffering from high voltage burn-in, AMD and motherboard manufacturers have promised to release new BIOSes based on the latest AGESA 1.0.0.7 library, which will bring the processor SoC’s operating voltage to a safe 1 .3 V is limited. has released a new version of the BIOS F10d, in the description of which it is stated that the voltage of the SoC has been reduced to a safe level. However, tests have shown that this is not the case.
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Igor’s Lab compared Gigabyte’s latest F10d BIOS to the previous F7 firmware, which did not yet make any changes to the maximum allowable operating voltage for Ryzen 7000X3D processors. To check the firmware, we used a Gigabyte Aorus Master X670E motherboard, a Ryzen 9 7950X3D processor and 32 GB of DDR5 RAM with a frequency of 6000 MHz set by AMD EXPO overclocking profiles.
The manufacturer measured the operating voltages Vcore, Vcore_SOC and VDIMM in the tests. The measurements were taken directly via the motherboard’s contact pads.
Tests were run with legacy F7 BIOS and AMD EXPO RAM overclocking profiles disabled, legacy F7 BIOS and RAM overclocking profiles enabled, and new F10d BIOS and AMD EXPO RAM overclocking profiles enabled.
Operating voltage values with BIOS version F7 disabled and AMD EXPO RAM overclocking profiles
With the old F7 BIOS and AMD EXPO RAM overclocking profiles disabled (see image above), operating voltage levels were low and within safe limits.
Operating voltage values with BIOS version F7 enabled and AMD EXPO RAM overclocking profiles enabled
After enabling the AMD EXPO overclocking profiles, the Vcore_SOC voltage rose to a dangerous 1.42V under load (see image above). This value was determined at the start of the Prime95 stress test.
Operating voltage values with the new BIOS version F10d and AMD EXPO RAM overclocking profiles enabled
Using the new BIOS F10d, which claims to limit the processor SoC operating voltage to a safe 1.3V, the actual Vcore_SOC voltage was 0.056V over the allowed limit and exceeded the 1.36V value (see image above).
Based on their observations, Igor’s Lab concluded that while Gigabyte limited the voltage limit of the Ryzen 7000X3D SoC chips in the new BIOS version, it still ignored AMD’s proposed decision to reduce the number to a safe 1.3V.
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