POLL: How many of have gotten DOA cpu's?

[Subversal]

Well recently I have gotten 3 dead Duron 700's (2 week 42, one week 27). Just today I got one and its DOA. BTW they were all OEM too. Now you could chalk it up to me being reckless, but I've built many a pc and only recently has this trend occured. I have one working Duron out of 4. The HS/F install is a breeze and the cores/chips showed no signs of physical damage. Guess I may have bad luck.

 

[office boy]

I've had 0 doa.

 

[jonnyGURU]

I don't want to sound like I'm flaming you but.....

...you're doing something wrong.

I've NEVER had a DOA CPU and that includes COUNTLESS Durons.

Maybe the fans installing "as a breeze" is the problem. Doesn't take long for a Duron to die from inadequate cooling. The PC won't even POST before it dies! :Q

Could be bad boards killing CPUs too, though. Dunno. But AMD's QA is usually more consistant than any motherboard manufacturer.

 

[Mem]

Well my T-bird 900mhz went faulty after 6 weeks, firsttime I`ve ever had a CPU go bad.

 

[snow patrol]

Never.

 

[chemwiz]

Only one, an AMD K6-2 300. Are Duron's really that easy to kill? I fired 2 of them up on Asus A7V's with no heatsink to make sure the unlocking had worked (those fans can be a BEAR to get on) with no problems at all. One of them I did it twice because the bridges weren't closed the first time. Anybody else done this and lived to tell the tale, or am I just really lucky?

 

[compuwiz1]

2, one celeron and one PIII. Actually, the PIII was cracked by a Gorb. The C2???? I've handled probably 2000 cpus in the last year and a half, so that's damn good, I think.

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

none

 

[Fardringle]

I had a DOA K6-2 333. Other than that, every CPU I've purchased has worked perfectly...

 

[Toolman]

Where ya getting the Durons from? All from the same place?

 

[bonkers325]

never doa but uh i have only killed one in my lifetime of over 100+ cpus

cheers,
bonkers325

 

[Ausm]

None Doa but I have killed many myself

Ausm

 

[Gunbuster]

0 Retail, but lots of DOA replacement CPU's at work.

The replacemts that are bad are all refurb/pulls so they dont really count. (scrap vendors like PC Service source dont test product)

 

[jonnyGURU]

How do you refurb a CPU?

 

[Gunbuster]

With a stock price of 3/16 try to imagine what kind of replacement parts they sent us.

We dont even use them anymore, but the new vendors will still sometimes dropship from PCSSE to us

We once looked up a part that came in from them. It was a acer power sup. so it had a system serial on it. One of our other service centers had junked the PC with that serial a few months before.

 

[chemwiz]

I refurb 'em with a hammer. They don't work any differently afterwards, but I feel better!

 

[WyattBurp]

Subversal

What kind of heat sink are you using with these Durons? Also are these
Durons SlotA?

 

[Subversal]

Well the two week 42 CPU's were from the same reseller. But good news on the week 27... it works. Seems my power supply was the culprit. But I checked out the week 42's and both still didn't work. I am using the Taisol Cek733 HS/F's. I mean this is the first time I have ever gotten DOA cpu's. Good thing the reseller I bought these from is exchanging them for me. So I am 2/4 but getting more Durons for friends machine's so should be back at 4/4 Oh yeah I am also using two MSI K7T Pro2-A boards.

 

[bonkers325]

Subversal good to hear your probs have been resolved
now on with life :0

cheers,
bonkers325

 

[MWink]

Not one.

 

[Subversal]

Thanks bonkers. I guess a DOA cpu is a rare thing, which is a good thing

 

[PCAddict]

Years ago I got a dead Cyrix PR200 (ugh, I know).

 

[Erasmus-X]

I've only gotten one DOA CPU in my life, and that was a Celeron 466 OEM chip about a year and a half ago. Other than that, my luck has been pretty good.

 

[Dennis Travis]

I have never in my 14 or more years now of working with and building PC's had a bad CPU out of the BOX. I have had maybe 2 die over the years due to other problems. I had a K6/233 die due to a motherboard with all the regulator's in a row all touching each other on an Tekram board. They got very hot and one of the regs blew overheating the CPU but the funny thing is it worked fine in an Asus and MSI board even after all that. It just never ran as cool as it once did. The only other CPU to die on me was due to this cheep ATX case I was working with. Turns out the middle 5.25" Drive bay was so close to the motherboard due to very poor design of the case that if you mount any CDROM there and close the CPU tray the Heat Sink on the regulator on an MSI 5169 SS7 board would hit very slightly the back of the CDROM and short it right to ground. The HS is HOT at +5VDC and with that cramped case I could not see that it was hitting the back of the CDROM. Took 5 seconds and the AMD K6-2/300 was history. Made me quite angry but it was NOT the fault of the CPU.

So CPU's out of the box seem to be very reliable. Never had a dead one. I have a feeling with the Durons that something is being done wrong when mounting the HS/Fan. Either they are cracking the core do to carelessness or the HS is not touching the die and it's overheating.

 

[BurntKooshie]

I had a K6-III DOA from Allstarmicro. I had to pay the 15% restocking fee, because their chip didn't work.