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Have you ever had a CPU die on you?

I've never had one fail on me and I've had a good few in the past 10 years or so. I'm particularly amazed that my parents phenom ii x2 overclocked by about 700MHz, in a tiny case with crap cooling and probably full of dust seems to be soldiering on.
 
My 3770K is just over 3 years old and has been running at 4.9ghz without a problem.
I had issue's with my motherboard 2 years ago but the CPU has been rock solid.
 
:o:o:o If this was a competition I will surely be the winner as I managed to kill a 2600k and a 2700k within 30 mns trying to test a dead motherboard... luckily Intel kindly replaced both within a week...
 
Nope, Cooler Master PSU flashed and banged me when I built my first PC about 5 years or so ago, first time flicking the switch after sticking it in the case, was not amused. :eek:
 
This thread has been an interesting read, I never understood just how durable they were.

Thanks for the responses so far :)
 
I had a Sandybridge CPU that was dead on arrival of delivery......built a new system and couldn't get it to post......literally tested/changed/RMA'd everything else, thinking that CPU's rarely if ever die.........low and behold the final thing to change was the CPU and boom it booted.
 
Nope neither Intel or Amd and my FX 53 that would do 3ghz under a Mach II cooler lives today as does the similarly abused FX 57 currently in my lads rig.
 
yes.

i got one of the first gulftowns as an ES so it didnt have any throttling and i had no info to work off safe parameters.

killed it within a month. didnt like voltage.
 
Yes
An ES Intel Core 2.
It was it's own stupid fault for not wanting to overclock.

Luckily Intel never asked for it back.:o
 
maklabouhlel said:
In the Athlon XP days, I switched the pc on forgetting to install the heatsink. It smoked and died. That was one of my first builds.
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I used to have the 6000+ version of the processor, was a great little chip and lasted me for ages till I got a good offer on a I7 950 a few years back
 
Nope but I'm in the process of upgrading my P4 to a higher clocked one as it is struggling these days! No idea if it will work mind you but only £3.99 so worth a punt ;)
 
My Mother has my old Athlon 64 X2 5600+, its used almost daily and still going strong after 10 years.
 
No. A CPU has never died on me that I can remember, that wasn't due to something else (like a power surge etc), or a PSU blowing up. Normally the Motherboards gave out.
 
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