question on a faulty chip.

[dmxdex2020]

So very soon im getting my e8400.

but i am returning my chip to the place i bought it.

I had the chip testd by a friend who owns a local pc place and he said he has never seen a chip like the one i have.

Every single motherboard it goes into it kills when fired up.

He has said he is not sure why it does that can anyone shed some light on it for me as to why it behaves this way.

 

[Corasik]

He has said he is not sure why it does that can anyone shed some light on it for me as to why it behaves this way.

Probably a short circuit in the chip's housing, must be a pretty major short to fry the motherboard though. Manufacturing fault most likely.

 

[nightmare99]

Wow thats really bad luck to get a faulty intel CPU

 

[dmxdex2020]

it did not come faulty i i have the gigabyte ds3l board which is a pain it has ram issues with board and i change ram around into different slots and it came up with updating bios and i hit the reset on the power supply after that it killed my board and every single board it has gone into, i had 4 gig of geil ram and for some reason one of the sticks did not register btw it it only worked when the other stick was present and had to be in the slot on the right side.

The ram is apprently working fine still from guy i had it tested by not sure bout power supply though i did hear hard drives working though when i tested the chip in my back up board which got killed also and gpu warmed up so im taking a guess that it still works lol fingers crossd.

 

[gurusan]

CPUs don't kill boards....something else is the problem.

 

[freddie64]

Maybe he's just crap at his job, lol.

 

[Justintime]

CPUs don't kill boards....something else is the problem.

Athlon XP 1800+ - killed any mobo it was put in, death toll- 3
Pentium 4 1.7 - same, toll - 2

Only cases i've seen with my own eyes, nothing was common i.e ram, psu etc.. between the boards they killed.