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Cpus dying more often now?

Never had a chip die, had 1 motherboards RAM slot go bad (MSI P67A-GD53 when I ran 1600mhz DDR3 Gskill Ripjaws and the 2500k was at 5ghz.
 
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I still have an i7 950 running well as of now, had a couple of 2500k knocking about and gave them systems away to help friends they're still running. Don't think I've had a CPU die yet
 
I've owned or built PC's for almost 30 years now, Never had a duff CPU personally. When I was selling them many moons ago, no end of problems. They were mainly Cryix based PC's thought I don't think they were the problem. I put it down to the god awful PSU's that were in them as things like CD-roms & hard drives were packing up at random.
 
Justintime said:
..... Most of these cpus are non overclocked stock ones too.
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You might not have realised this but buying the non overclockable CPU's you have increased your chances of getting failure down the road. These CPU's are the lower binned ones that don't make the cut and are poorer silicon than the CPU's that go on to become 'K' CPU's.

That being said, you do seem mightily unlucky to have had so many CPU's die on you! Have you been breaking any mirrors, walking under ladders or opening umbrellas inside your house in the last few years? ;)
 
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MartinPrince said:
You might not have realised this but buying the non overclockable CPU's you have increased your chances of getting failure down the road. These CPU's are the lower binned ones that don't make the cut and are poorer silicon than the CPU's that go on to become 'K' CPU's.

That being said, you do seem mightily unlucky to have had so many CPU's die on you! Have you been breaking any mirrors, walking under ladders or opening umbrellas inside your house in the last few years? ;)
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I remember a long while back reading an article that said systems with the lowest clocked cpus and ram (in the same range) experienced the least failures. It maybe makes sense in that, back before everything was max-turbo'd out of the box, low-end CPUs were known for their massive overclocks. The binning process may be a touch more rigorous nowadays and I'd imagine yields and margins are less generous.
 
Grimley said:
I've owned or built PC's for almost 30 years now, Never had a duff CPU personally. When I was selling them many moons ago, no end of problems. They were mainly Cryix based PC's thought I don't think they were the problem. I put it down to the god awful PSU's that were in them as things like CD-roms & hard drives were packing up at random.
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There was a period around 2000 or so where many CD/DVD-ROM drives were trash (especially the ones commonly used in cheaper pre-builds) - unreliable at the best of times, often prematurely dying. Only a small number of models were reliable.

Not to mention q-tec PSUs which killed many a system.
 
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13oots2 said:
The only CPU I have had die was down to operator error. Had been up all night sorting out my Duron 900, a friend came around and distracted me. Put the system back together and fired it up, could hear a random ticking sound, it was the processor slowly blowing itself to bits as I had forgotten to mount the heat sink, at least it meant I could now get an Athlon 1gHz.
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ugh i'll admit to cracking the odd core with the mounting systems back in those days. Used to build pcs weekly for sale so saw a lot of cpus and those first generation ceramic body Socket A's were super fragile, i was accustomed to PIII durability! Chipped the odd core now and then but seems it was only substrate damage, probably lost 2 or 3 to actual core cracking.
 
MartinPrince said:
You might not have realised this but buying the non overclockable CPU's you have increased your chances of getting failure down the road. These CPU's are the lower binned ones that don't make the cut and are poorer silicon than the CPU's that go on to become 'K' CPU's.

That being said, you do seem mightily unlucky to have had so many CPU's die on you! Have you been breaking any mirrors, walking under ladders or opening umbrellas inside your house in the last few years? ;)
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Not my cpus personally, i still do minor pc repair on word of mouth, used to do it for a living in another lifetime but no longer.

Grimley said:
I've owned or built PC's for almost 30 years now, Never had a duff CPU personally. When I was selling them many moons ago, no end of problems. They were mainly Cryix based PC's
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Cooling too, Cyrix cpus ran hot but heatsink technology was behind imo for what was really needed.
 
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I'm still not quite sure what exactly died, but either my i5-4570 or Asus Z97 Pro Gamer motherboard died in July 2017. :(

I'm still chugging along on my replacement i5-7500 build, the same CPU I see mentioned in the OP. :eek:

Oh well, I was dabbling with the idea of an upgrade anyway. :o
 
The only problem I have ever had with a cpu was purely my own fault. That was a socket 775 E8500 that I gave too much voltage trying to hit 4.5Ghz and it degraded within 2 weeks. I was used to the old 65nm cpu's that could take big volts and treated the 45nm E8500 the same way which ended with it degrading to the point it even required extra voltage to run at stock. It's replacement was from the next stepping and only needed 1.4v to be stable at 4.5Ghz.
 
I think in all my years playing with computers (1997 onwards on the PC scene, further back in others), I've only had one "suspected" CPU death. And that was my i7 920, and that was only because I had no other devices to diagnose if it was the motherboard, or the CPU that died in that instance (and by then that gen of tech was well deprecated and thus no easy way to grab spares to diagnose without getting expensive that could have been spent on a newer system). Otherwise, from an Intel Pentium 166Mhz, to my recently deceased system with the 4930k, none of the CPU's themselves have died. With other devices giving up (often long) before the CPU's themselves.
 
Rroff said:
Would be my bet - I've rarely had a good experience with Asus motherboards personally.
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Hmmm, interesting, was looking at possibly grabbing an Asus board for the newer system ahead, but... The motherboard that died recently here WAS actually the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme. Coincidence? Pure luck? Or something more troublesome over at Asus manufacturing of motherboards?
 
Meddling-Monk said:
Hmmm, interesting, was looking at possibly grabbing an Asus board for the newer system ahead, but... The motherboard that died recently here WAS actually the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme. Coincidence? Pure luck? Or something more troublesome over at Asus manufacturing of motherboards?
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I can only speak from what I have experienced with my own and friends/family builds - but Asus motherboards have not proved to be reliable from my experience.
 
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