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Do I keep frying CPUs?

2 CPUs died on the same system with nothing else changed?
That's unlikely to be bad luck (even with years between the failures) given that CPUs have extremely low failure rates, even when abused.
It's more likely to be overclocking and/or motherboard and/or PSU. Or a combination of them which led to failures.

Even on overclocking forums where you would expect to hear from people that had failures, you don't tend to much.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Dunno what you're doing to them I've never had a cpu die ever some I've had over 10 years in a second pc current 7800x3d I've had the last couple year with zero issues
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My intel Sandybridge i7 2600k from circa 2011 is still going today in my kids PC, and has been heavily overclocked it's entire life .
 
Tetras said:
Motherboard VRMs are pretty complex, so they can definitely kill a CPU on their own (heck, the manufacturer just choosing to overvolt at stock can do that), but yeah, a bad PSU can also kill the stuff connected to it.
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Ah fair enough, VRM's are a bit above my pay grade, I know of them but never really looked into it, I just know cooling is important for them :cry:
 
I have been unlucky with Ryzen tbh.
Ive had the 3800x, and 5600x.. Both died within 6 months of memory controller issues....

So now i just stick to Intel...
Been using them for years.. heck, still got my Core 2 Quad Q6600 PC from back in the day, Heavily overclocked... Still runs great...
 
gamerdude1989 said:
I have been unlucky with Ryzen tbh.
Ive had the 3800x, and 5600x.. Both died within 6 months of memory controller issues....

So now i just stick to Intel...
Been using them for years.. heck, still got my Core 2 Quad Q6600 PC from back in the day, Heavily overclocked... Still runs great...
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I know loads of people who went onto AM4 since 2017 and not a single one of them has had their CPU go kaput. I was on AM4 for six years and had a Ryzen 5 2600,Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 5 5700X in limited airflow SFF cases,ie,the CPUs ran on the warmer side and they were fine. The same goes for other mates who had them running in SFF systems.

If the memory controller has gone kaput,it sounds like there was too much SOC voltage applied by the motherboard.

BTW,the Intel 13000 and 14000 series had degradation issues:
 
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Been using them for years.. heck, still got my Core 2 Quad Q6600 PC from back in the day, Heavily overclocked... Still runs great...
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Q6600s are tough - I had one running at the max voltage table value, 1.65v IIRC, and overclocked to 3.825GHz (briefly ~4GHz) for like 2 years doing stuff like video encoding, then gave it away to family and it has been bouncing around different people and setups for years still working fine last I knew.
 
BUDFORCE said:
My intel Sandybridge i7 2600k from circa 2011 is still going today in my kids PC, and has been heavily overclocked it's entire life .
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You could heavily "OC" that era of chips by setting a multi and low voltage requirement and then forget about it, totally different time. There has never been a period in hardware history that better suited easy gains as Sandy/Ivy and around 4-6 years after, and it was because Intel was taking the pee.

gamerdude1989 said:
I have been unlucky with Ryzen tbh.
Ive had the 3800x, and 5600x.. Both died within 6 months of memory controller issues....

So now i just stick to Intel...
Been using them for years.. heck, still got my Core 2 Quad Q6600 PC from back in the day, Heavily overclocked... Still runs great...
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What exactly were you trying to do with them? Modern CPU's do not OC well, period. If you tried to do similar stuff with AM4 or later it's little wonder, Intel would take a poo if you tried the same stuff.

One has to consider that concerns are mostly PEBCAK.
 
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Yeah, though a bit different because cherry picked cores and run underspec from the factory but the unlocked 2011 Xeons from that era you could clock like crazy, shove some voltage through them (though most didn't need much to hit crazy overclocks) and they'd run like that forever.
 
Rroff said:
Yeah, though a bit different because cherry picked cores and run underspec from the factory but the unlocked 2011 Xeons from that era you could clock like crazy, shove some voltage through them (though most didn't need much to hit crazy overclocks) and they'd run like that forever.
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The biggest issue was solder vs gunk tbh, that's where the whole delidding thing came from and started with Ivy way back when afaik.

Server chips didn't use putty.
 
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Rroff said:
Q6600s are tough - I had one running at the max voltage table value, 1.65v IIRC, and overclocked to 3.825GHz (briefly ~4GHz) for like 2 years doing stuff like video encoding, then gave it away to family and it has been bouncing around different people and setups for years still working fine last I knew.
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The Q6600 was built on 65nm with sizeable and really rigid substrate underneath it. 65nm can deal with Intel levels of power use and the thermal cycling caused by it. Intel latest chips can’t. The core 2 didn’t rust over time either.
 
Rroff said:
Q6600s are tough - I had one running at the max voltage table value, 1.65v IIRC, and overclocked to 3.825GHz (briefly ~4GHz) for like 2 years doing stuff like video encoding, then gave it away to family and it has been bouncing around different people and setups for years still working fine last I knew.
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I loved mine, and had basically the exact same experience as you down to the OC/voltage, and fact it 'could' crack 4GHz but wasn't fully stable in Prime95, but real world, seemed to be, I did keep it at 3.85GHz in the end though; it was just cool to crack 4GHz on air, and in general.
That will always be the best Intel CPU ever to me, what a time that was back then.

I have always been more into AMD, but there was no doubting, the Q6600 was a beast, and awesome value!

I did the well known Athlon 2500XP-M into a desktop motherboard, trick, years ago, heavily OC'ed, that was a wicked combination.
 
deviation said:
I did the well known Athlon 2500XP-M into a desktop motherboard, trick, years ago, heavily OC'ed, that was a wicked combination.
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In all my years fiddling with tech, my favourite memories are back when I did the Duron > Athlon pencil trick and soft modded an ATI 9500 (L shape memory) into a 9700. There was so much room to get the most out of your hardware back then, there was right up until the sort of mid 2010's tbh. Things are different now for better or worse, there has been the odd thing like memory tuning to get the most out of AMD's Zen 2 etc but I honestly just cba at this point.

I actually had a Q6600 that I lost in a house fire that did wonders too, replaced it with a hefty bargain I got on a E6750 which was a champ right up until my first I7.
 
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BUDFORCE said:
My intel Sandybridge i7 2600k from circa 2011 is still going today in my kids PC, and has been heavily overclocked it's entire life .
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Sandybridge cpus were just amazing value. You could clock the balls off them and they'd be happy to run all day every day.
 
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