Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards

Crumbs in the socket, nothing to see here. So, said ASRock last week in a blog post addressing reports of dead AMD Ryzen 9000 chips in its motherboards. But does that really fly in the context of getting on for 100 Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs said to have died in ASRock boards?

To be more specific, at one recent count on Reddit, 98 9800X3Ds are reported to have expired in ASRock motherboards. But before we all jump on ASRock's neck, it is not the only motherboard vendor mentioned by Redditors suffering CPU failures.