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Have you ever had a CPU die on you?

Nope, not even the Celeron 366@600 with condensation dripping off it, it crashed while I was at work, got home and rebooted, went into the BIOS to see -56 degrees. Then had to find a dish to put on the gfx card to catch all the dripping water from the ice block which had formed around the slocket (remember those?).
 
I remember watching my very first XP1900 from my very first PC smoke itself to death in almost an instant. For whatever reason my new build wouldn't boot up at all and just kept beeping at me and complained about something to do with the CPU in the pre bios checks. So for whatever reason i removed the heat sink and powered it up... fizz crack cpu gone...

I then discovered that it was actually the fault of my Juno XP (sp) case and its extra motherboard mounting points shorting the back of the motherboard around the CPU area... Still, lesson learnt and i never did anything that retarded again. :)

Oddly enough i RMA'ed the XP 1900 and they sent me 2 to replace it so i kept one and sold the other. Haha! So sometimes stupidity pays.
 
vfdb said:
Yeah my friend's FX 6300 died. We went out to get some drinks, came back and the computer had shut down and would not boot back up. Checked all the other components and it turned out to be the CPU. Wasn't overclocked either
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Yea it always starts with a few drinks! :p
 
Never. From a 486DX4100 all the way through to an i5 2500k. Not a problem.

In fact, The only component I've had die on me was an EVGA 680i mobo.
 
had my first 4570k/Z87 combo that was DOA, had no way to figure out which so sent both back for replacement, so 50/50 chance ive had a dead CPU.

as others mentioned though, dont talk about hard disks, im in double figures for failures of those
 
Yep my first core 2 duo chip died within about 2 months of buying it. I didn't overclock it, the temp were fine - just didn't work one day. Had to return it directly to Intel and wait 6 weeks for a replacement.
 
Nope. Still have a Pentium III that works just fine. The only components I've ever had actually die on me were a HD 4870 (after four years of use) and the fan in a PSU. Have had a few that've been faulty out of the box though.
 
I've had 2 (technically 3 as 2 were AMD MP processors) that "might have" died on me. But was never able to test them out.

2 were the AMD MP's I talked about. But thinking back, I think it was more a motherboard issue, since it was a Tyan Tiger and was from the "Capcitor Plague" generation. The issues encountered are reminiscient of the issues associated, so I am unsure if they were truly "dead" or not, since I didn't have another board to test them in. Eventually went into bin.

1 was a i7 920 (c0 revision). Same issue almost. Wouldn't start up. Either motherboard or CPU died. At that time, newer hardware was out, so scrapped the whole thing (motherboard and CPU). Since I couldn't test them out to see what was the issue short of forking out cash for a new setup (and why not a newer one if coughing up anyway?). The unfortunate part about that one, was I firmly believe it was a motherboard issue and someone on this forum at the time had a 920 issue they needed to diagnose with a CPU. But my old log in no longer worked, so couldn't communicate with them to send to them for free. So it too was binned in the end as it sat there gathering dust.

Overall, from a lengthy list of CPU's, only 2 (types) or 3 overall "died" on me. And even then, it was under suspect circumstances.

The only thing I've ever had confirmed "die" on me was a REALLY old 15" Sony Trinitron monitor SFII I believe it was from 96/97 that died exactly 1 year and 12 days from purchase. So back in 98 essentially it died, but service back then was different and it was fixed no quibble.

CPU list: Pentium (original), Cyrix MX400, PII (various), PIII, P4, AMD MP, AMD Opteron, i7 1366 (920), i7 2011 (3820, 4930k), i5 (3750k)
 
The only CPU I had that died was an I7 990X. It was running at the lowest O/C with minimal volts too, around about 1 year old. I was folding with it on 10 threads while the other two looked after GPU'S also folding. One day it just crashed and wouldn't restart. Took me ages to sus it out as it was the last thing I expected to go wrong. Replaced under warranty super quick direct from Intel. 10/10 FOR CS. The replacement was a much better clocker and is still going strong, the only thing was it put a end to my folding lost a good few GPU'S to the cause and power bills, it all became too much of a chore, shame really.
 
An Athlon Thunderbird when I didn't fit the cooler properly (well it didn't fit properly) and toasted it not long after it went GOOOO. But in the last 15 plus years? No.
 
I'vr had an Athlon as a keyring for a number of years. No obvious pin damage, kinda tempted to mount it and see if it still works.
 
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