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Have you ever had a processor fail on you?

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I had a machine bit the dust over the summer. Not sure if it was the CPU, PSU, or MoBo.

I swapped PSU's, but it still wouldn't boot or even do anything. I didn't bother to investigate at that point, because tbh, I don't give a shit about a 6 year old Pentium D machine.
 
No, though I had a Netburst-based Celeron that died shortly after I gave it to a friend, possibly because I'd overclocked it pretty far on the stock heatsink.

Other than that, motherboard a couple times, PSU once, and hard drive once.
 
I had a AMD Sempron just die on me a few months back in my Windows Home Server. It was a single core, but I was able to unlock the second core, and it ran fine as a dual core for over a year. Then I swapped the MB, and the new MB couldn't unlock it, so I ran it as a single core for about a month and then it just died. Everything has been running fine since I just replaced the CPU with a real quad core (PHenom II 840). So it was just the cpu that died, although I did unlock the second core for a while.
 
Not with stock usage.

I had an old Athlon T-bird that became unstable after a year or so overclocked with the pencil trick. Cleaned everything off best I could and still wasn't stable at stock spd/voltage.
 
Well, all of my computers were overclocked and abused 😀. So far only cpu that failed was, AMD k6 with pencil trick. It would not work after awhile so I would do pencil over and over again and finally it died. But I sure did get alot of fun out of it.

currently still hanging on with c2q..
 
One sempron 170 failed on me. Didn't care much, it was a 30 dollar cpu that had served its purpose.

All other failures have been video card and hard drive related. Big surprise...
 
No. My 3200+ Winnie did degrade over time and go from a stable 2.5ghz OC to 'only' 2.2ghz, but it never failed.
 
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