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Have you ever had a CPU die on you?

Joe!

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Hi,

Been thinking about this every time someone mentions the lifespan of a processor, so...

Have any of you had one die on you? I am not on about breaking it with too much voltage, but just general death after a gracious life.
 
I haven't had one die, but I have had a P4 1.6A require more volts than it used to require to reach the same overclock. This was over a time period of a couple of years and back in an era where upgrading every year or two actually used to provide performance benefits so I didn't care :)
 
Not that I can recall - most of mine have continued working until chucked many years later - even pulled out pretty old systems to dispose of and the CPU has been fine even when the RAM, etc. has gone.
 
nope.

Not even the pentium D I had in my first computer (prebuilt) that didn't have the cooler attached properly so was throttling at 100c or so 24/7 for a year or so until I figured out why I couldn't play cs:s properly.
 
Never, Intel nor amd. I think the CPU is the most sturdy part in a system :)

I've had a previous system hit by lightning through the wall socket which broke many parts but the CPU was alright. Now that was overvolting!
 
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My OC did suddenly turn unstable after 2 years, guess I probably need to up the volts and retest but haven't really been bothered.

To answer the OP, aside from my PSU blowing up and destroying the CPU, no.
 
not me. I had an athlon XP 1700+ running my main PC for 10 years, and was still going strong when I sold it for a massive £2.50 on ebay :D
 
Yep a 4770k that would do 6.3-6.4ghz(LN2) in 3D benchmarks and the cause was, i used a 24pin cable extension for ease of use and one of the pins was not in the connector properly causing a short and 1 dead cpu later, gutted :(
 
Just the two in my many years of using PCs. A Cyrix MII 300 and an XP 1700+. The first just stopped working, and the second was likely due to having fitted the cooler incorrectly.
 
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