Has a cpu ever died on you after so long?

smyth · 26 Jan 2008 at 13:05

I was wondering if any of you guys have had your cpu die on you and only the cpu.

Since you're able to get used cpu at around 60% of the new price it would be worth it if cpus last long.

Thanks

me

Kelt · 26 Jan 2008 at 13:11

Been PC'ing a loooong time and never had a CPU die on me yet*. There again, I don't push my CPU's like some of the guys on here! I'm sure someone somehere may have fried a CPU by overcooking it! Also worked in IT Support and never came across a dead one in a business environment. Have known some people who have unintentionally damaged them though. Seen a couple fried by people not aware of good ESD practise, seen a couple with pins bent by ham-fisted assembly, etc.

*Just remembered, had one go me, not by overheating though...I had a cheapo PSU die on me and take out everything in my PC except the motherboard and sound card. CPU, hard drives, graphics card, 2 optical drives, all fried.

Oh, the smoke...at least when my Hiper 580 decided to go nuclear, it only took itself out!

ns400r · 26 Jan 2008 at 13:20

smyth said:
I was wondering if any of you guys have had your cpu die on you and only the cpu.

Since you're able to get used cpu at around 60% of the new price it would be worth it if cpus last long.

Thanks

me

Nope, never.
I've broken a couple of old AMD's when slamming heatsinks down on them but never had one fail from 'use'.

smyth · 26 Jan 2008 at 13:27

Sounds interesting as someone mentioned a Q6600 going for £90 on the mm, sounds like a bargain especially as cpus tend to last for ages, maybe even forever (probably not :rolleyes:

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gavindo · 26 Jan 2008 at 13:36

only chip ive killed from overclocking was a celeron 3.2 775 we used it on a vapa chill unit, was fun for a while and then it died.

gurusan · 26 Jan 2008 at 13:39

Nope. never. Even pushed 1.65v through a 3200+ Venice before and ran it 24/7 for a couple weeks.

blackninja · 26 Jan 2008 at 15:06

My cyrix 586 100 Mhz ran at 120MHz for 18 months + ...
My Pentium 120 ran at 133 for 2 years + ...
My first celeron 300a (300MHz) ran at 450 MHz for 6 weeks :eek:

The second one lasted longer - 12 months +

My Barton Mobile 2500+ (1.83Ghz) still runs at 2.5GHz

... 3 years or so. Was at 2.8GHz whilst under water.

Opteron 165 from 1.8GHz to 2.8GHz still going strong 2 years down the line

There were a few others but no dead cpus other than that one celeron

spookywillow · 26 Jan 2008 at 15:14

nope not me either and i push them till they cant go no more.

the most beat up chip i had was a 2800xp and i put 2.2v through that to get 2.7ghz out of it lol but it still worked perfectly until i sold it

smyth · 26 Jan 2008 at 16:07

thanks for the reply guys, might have to just get me a second hand cpu next upgrade then :O

Dougsnake · 26 Jan 2008 at 16:18

never

mattyrigby00 · 26 Jan 2008 at 16:24

cpus last decades

marscay · 26 Jan 2008 at 17:12

i haven't had a cpu die on my since northwood days, and that was under phase.

i've even sliced 2 caps clean off my opty 148 when removing the IHS and she still went to ~3.5ghz 24/7 stable

Amonlym · 26 Jan 2008 at 17:34

only thing ive seen is an old 2100+ t-bred. it was run at ~2.2-2.4v for 2.4ghz for 3 years and now wont post with sub 1.8v. still runs fine however....

pendulum666 · 26 Jan 2008 at 17:40

Not through normal or even overclocking use no.

split · 26 Jan 2008 at 18:45

I've never bust one.
I was given an old AMD machine to look at (wouldn't boot) and when I removed the cooler a large chunk of the CPU came with it.
That one was dead

The owner could have done that as he had been messing with it.

IAmATeaf · 26 Jan 2008 at 21:43

Never ever and I tend to throw CPUs around

just for fun

Duke · 26 Jan 2008 at 22:01

Never broken one or had one die on me.

Indy500 · 26 Jan 2008 at 22:03

I still have an original Duron and Athlon from 1999.

Perfect_Chaos · 27 Jan 2008 at 01:45

out of all the cpu's ive had in the past, the only thing that happened to one of my chips was that it only had half the cache it should have had, it was like half of it burnt out or something.. it even read that way in CPUZ

Chabsy · 27 Jan 2008 at 11:05

smyth said:
Sounds interesting as someone mentioned a Q6600 going for £90 on the mm, sounds like a bargain especially as cpus tend to last for ages, maybe even forever (probably not )

If its a GO then £90 is a steal but it is more than likely a B3

As for CPU dying nope never

P166
K6 200
K6 400
AMD 1200
Barton +1800
Venice 3000
X2 3800

And now I have a Q6600 waiting to be built, I have just realised that this will be my first Intel chip for about 12 years