Who has owned a cpu for over a year and then had it fail?

[Dug]

Just curious, because I have yet to see a cpu fail after a year of use and then try to use the warranty.
It's usually doa or dies from overclocking.

 

[aznbomber]

I actually never had a CPU fail on me before.

 

[SilentRunning]

Originally posted by: aznbomber
I actually never had a CPU fail on me before.

Actually the only thing that has ever failed for me was a single video card.

 

[Brian23]

I've had it happen! It's extreamly rare though. The chip was a 1GHz P3 FC-PGA copermine with 100MHz FSB. I used the computer every day and after 2 years it gave up the ghost one day as I was restarting my PC. I replaced it with a 1.4GHz tualitin Celeron. (The board was a BX chipset so it needed 100MHz FSB.)

From my experience with electronics, CPUs almost NEVER fail after they're installed as long as you're not fiddling with them. (ie removing the heatsink, static discharge onto the motherboard, etc..)

 

[Phooey]

I've purchased about a dozen CPUs for homebuilts and never had any of them fail. I've had memory go bad after a year - it was very strange, all of a sudden my computer began posting 256MB instead of the 512MB I had in there. After some deducing I figured out the stick just didn't work and threw it out.

 

[novice]

Never had a CPU, video card or motherboard fail on me. Now, hard drives, cd-rom drives and floppy drives are another story. I even had an old 128 mb PC-133 stick of Mushkin ram with the infineon chips go bad (ouch, paid $130 for back in the day). Mushkin replaced it with their best level available. Outstanding service!

 

[mrgoblin]

Me. I bought a 3000+ and it died in about 6 months. Then i got a 3200+ and it was doa then another and it was fine.