Have you ever had a processor fail on you?

[nickb64]

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.

 

[Gillbot]

Yep, but nothing I didn't do myself.

 

[Uppsala9496]

CPU no. All failures have been motherboard related (4).

 

[PhoenixEnigma]

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.

 

[kmmatney]

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.

 

[SithSolo1]

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.

 

[MustangSVT]

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..

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I overvolted a PD 805 once well after it was no longer used, got it well past 4ghz before it cooked, lol

Overvolted pentium D? That sounds seriously toasty.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

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...

 

[john3850]

I had a P-3 slot 1 die for no reason.

 

[exar333]

No. My 3200+ Winnie did degrade over time and go from a stable 2.5ghz OC to 'only' 2.2ghz, but it never failed.