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Lifespan of the i5 750

mufc802

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Hi,

I'm just wondering how long an i5 750 should last if it's overclocked at 4GHz? Say it was on constantly at that speed how long would it work?
 
Who knows?
Seriously!

As long as the temps are kept low, then I see no reason why it wouldnt last a few tyears. My E6600 has been going now for 2.5years overclocked an extra ghz. Seems fine t me!
 
Referring to your O/C then as long as your not pumping insane Vcore through it then a good few years.

Regarding the life of the i5 750 as a chip it should be around at least 18 months or so being part of a new socket and being a great chip to O/C
 
My cousin is still running my old AMD 64 3000+ and god knows how old that thing is by now.

I don't think CPU's are the kind of thing to just go down, they seem to battle on as long as their conditions are right :)
 
marc69 said:
My cousin is still running my old AMD 64 3000+ and god knows how old that thing is by now.

I don't think CPU's are the kind of thing to just go down, they seem to battle on as long as their conditions are right :)
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i have a 3200+ comp from 6 years ago i let my 5 year old lose on so he can go on the cbeebies website etc :D i think it must have been built around 6 years ago and it has over 3 years uptime acording to the motherboards power on statistics :D

the only issue it has is the gpu fan on the old radeon x800 makes a wierd rattling sound when the computer first boots but after 20 seconds it sounds normal again.
 
I gave my Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 o/c at 1.5 to my parents 4 years ago. It had some nasty temps, 50-60c.

It's still working. Had it since 2001. It's almost never turned off.

If that's anything, cpus seem to survive easily unless you burn them.
 
Processor lifespan is unknown. Modelling it features a large amount of unknown data (i.e. the current range hasn't been out for long enough for many to die) and would still yield a statistical distribution. It's as unreasonable a question to ask as "how long will I live for?" is.

It can be assumed to live for the life of the warranty. Previous experience suggests systems die when the motherboards go, not the processors, and that they generally live for longer than is useful anyway.
 
I have a p3 800 system that is still going strong from xmas 2000 iirc. It was my bonus that year, custom built (for a sensible price) and has been brilliant bar the inebvitable reinstalls of win98 se. Everything still standard except I acquired an agp card myself at the same time as the onboard sucked ass.

Should perhaps mention it was a business machine primarily - databases / spreadsheets and other retail gumf.
 
As far as I know my Cyrix 300 with a voodoo sli setup is still running, it was last year when I spoke to the relative that had it off me
 
Yateszy said:
Hi,

I'm just wondering how long an i5 750 should last if it's overclocked at 4GHz? Say it was on constantly at that speed how long would it work?
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In continuous 100% utilization, the expected lifetime of a stock-clocked Intel CPU is somewhere upwards of 20 years. Even if that was halved by your overclock I suspect that you would have sold it on before it started to give you trouble.
 
raralis said:
I gave my Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 o/c at 1.5 to my parents 4 years ago. It had some nasty temps, 50-60c.

It's still working. Had it since 2001. It's almost never turned off.

If that's anything, cpus seem to survive easily unless you burn them.
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thunderbirds could hit upto 95c without bother mine still lives set mine to shut down at 85c in the bios
 
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