Have you ever had a processor fail on you?

[Jen]

i think i killed 8 cpus in a week due to a bad powersupply and motherboard,

durons , tbreds , palomino and so forth. was a very bad experence

Jen

 

[chubbyfatazn]

Had a friend come to me with his Duron 900MHz, asked me to take a look at it. Turns out he chipped the core during installation.

Otherwise, nah.

 

[Blades]

I had a brand new PII 450 start sparking and smoking because of a faulty (also new) mobo. It wasn't fun. It was the motherboard that caused it all to happen. Bad ground no matter what due to internal defect. Costly. Thanks Tyan. Good thing I did not have the second proc in there.

 

[Dkcode]

Just curious here.. No doubt other system builders have experienced motherboards, hard drives, and PSU's that failed.. but has anyone actually had a PROCESSOR die on them?

I feel like its relatively unheard of, and I'm thinking that the processor might just have the lowest chance of failing than any other component.

Obviously excluding those who bent pins, overclocked too high, or spilled water on their PC's or something..

What do you think?

Years ago, back in 2000. AMD K6 233Mhz chip died on me.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Nope. Going back to the 8088, I've never had a bad processor.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

no!!! ive only had intel and ive never had one fail ever, even machines that have been powered on for years. i dont overclock or change them in and out though btw. i read the lifetime of a chip is supposedly 10-12 years but ive never used one for that long. from reading the forums here it seems like amd has a much higher failure rate than intel

 

[Rackmountsales]

Obviously No I also run intel processor and I’ve never had machines fail ever. They do die but generally there is another fault that causes it. Over voltage or cooking would be high on the list.

 

[richaron]

I smoked an Athlon XP, think that's the only one since I started tweaking K6-2's.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

ive never even had a motherboard die a natural death, and i buy cheapo boards without the ss capacitors. i did ruin one intel branded board but that was because a screwdriver slipped when i was releasing a cpu fan brace.

 

[DominionSeraph]

ive never even had a motherboard die a natural death

I had one of those. My Abit BH6 started random rebooting after 12 years of 12h/day use.

 

[Hulk]

Never.
386SX-25
Pentium 60
Pentium 90
Celeron 300a
Pentium III 550
Pentium III 850
Pentium IV 1.8
Pentium IV 2.4
Pentium IV 3.0
Core2Duo E6400
i5 2500k

Mobile Pentium III 1.2
Mobile Core2Duo 2.0

 

[Ferzerp]

ive never even had a motherboard die a natural death, and i buy cheapo boards without the ss capacitors. i did ruin one intel branded board but that was because a screwdriver slipped when i was releasing a cpu fan brace.

I did. My current system no less. Either the motherboard or the PSU failed. The result was a burnt 24-pin socket and plug. Both ASUS and Corsair RMA'ed without question though.

 

[tommo123]

all the way back to a 166mhz oentium and a 700mhz k7 and i haven't (knock wood!!) had one fail. have had every other part fail though. psu, ram, gpu, drive, mobos. but no cpu

i did get lucky once though 10-12 years ago a friend and i in university ordered 2x parts for new PCs. i couldn't be bothered building it when the bits arrived so he chose which he wanted. his cpu went up in smoke when he turned it on . i built mine straight away and it worked fine lol. he may have muttered a swear word at me

 

[Gunbuster]

Replaced tons of smoked K6, K6-2's and Cyrix chips when I worked at a Best Buy service center back in the day. It was pretty rare to replace an intel chip and after the slot P2's went away it pretty much never happened.

 

[nyker96]

my old socket 754 cpu failed on me, forgot the model number now.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Nope. But I'm an overclocking wuss. I won't even take my 2600k past 4.3ghz because it takes more voltage than I'd like.

 

[Ferzerp]

Nope. But I'm an overclocking wuss. I won't even take my 2600k past 4.3ghz because it takes more voltage than I'd like.

Pfft, My nehalem is at 4.0Ghz, and that's using *less* voltage than stock.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Pfft, My nehalem is at 4.0Ghz, and that's using *less* voltage than stock.

You have a golden chip then. I've also given up on squeezing every last drop of performance out of cpu's. 4.3 on a 2600k is really insane if you just step back and think about it. I mean we are to the point where we're rocking supercomputer level desktops these days.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

I have lost maybe 8 optical drives, 3 PSUs, a couple sticks of RAM, fans and hard drives over the years, but never have I lost a motherboard or a CPU (/e knocks on wood).

 

[Ferzerp]

You have a golden chip then. I've also given up on squeezing every last drop of performance out of cpu's. 4.3 on a 2600k is really insane if you just step back and think about it. I mean we are to the point where we're rocking supercomputer level desktops these days.

I still don't know what the max safe voltage is for this thing, but it tends to run hot, and so I never added any extra juice to it to test.

 

[abbcccus]

My 2500k didn't die outright, but there was clearly something wrong with it. It ran alright at first, but it would occasionally get unexplained, non repeating BSODs. Moved to a new board, switched out the memory several times (after running MemTest for hours on each set without issue), tried three different PSUs (all of which worked without issue on my i7 860 based machine), tried several different ssds, disconnected everything from the computer, ran it with a slight OC and stock . . . and pulled out most of my hair. When it BSODed when booted from a Hiren's boot disk (14, I think) I was using for diagnosis, I became very suspicious of the processor. When it pooped out while booted from a Linux disk I gave up. Intel said they'd test it before doing anything, but they sent me a brand new processor as quickly as they could, and no more BSODs.

Troubleshooting it sucked because the BSODs were completely random. It'd run for three days without issues, then BSOD three times in rapid succession with no rhyme or reason to the error codes or the programs being run when it went down. I could run IBT for hours without any issues, then, starting up SRWare Iron BAM! It's the last thing in the world you expect to go wrong, and thank heavens that's the only time I've had to deal with it.

 

[thelastjuju]

I had an athlon XP fail on me after I accidentally powered it up with no heatsink on it.

Does that count?

lol are you sure this was accidental? Sounds like more of a death wish :whiste:

Anyway, sounds like most of us have had very similar experiences, and that these processors just refuse to quit unless somebody intervened improperly.. other than a few very rare cases or bad batches..

Also reminds me of why I only do mild overclocks.. usually the most I can overclock without increasing the default voltage these days.

OBLAMA.. you're quite lucky.. I've found the motherboards have some of the highest probability of eventually failing, of all pc components.. its really the only part that I pretty much expect to only get 3-4 years out of..

 

[Maximilian]

Yeah the core of an athlon XP sort of uh fell off when i removed the heatsink ~2006, I took a bad picture when it happened:

 

[God Mode]

I've had a AMD 3000+ fail on me on day 1. I was denied warranty for not using the stock cooler (I used a cooler from AMDs own approval list). I hold a grudge to this day.

 

[Concillian]

I have lost maybe 8 optical drives, 3 PSUs, a couple sticks of RAM, fans and hard drives over the years, but never have I lost a motherboard or a CPU (/e knocks on wood).

I totally just envisioned you knocking on your own noggin.

Thank you for the entertaining vision, Mr. Wood.