How durable is Skylake i7-6700

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I was pretty gentle with my Skylake processor......but by the sounds of it my mom may have tripped over the HDMI cable and tipped the case for a moment and/or moved the case and/or banged the floor with her feet...

Nevertheless I am really REALLY worried that I didn't go with 22nm Haswells...Skylake is 14nm...no music? Is this why my old XP athlon is still working?

Does Intel test sound around them? Vibration? Jurt movement speeds for stationary to moving at " "MPH all the sudden? Etc? Oh I hope.

Are the billions of transistors etched in metal? Carbon metal? Fluid anywhere? Wires loose or no? What about the millions of capacitors etc? How could the atoms not mess up after a few vibes and sudden fast speeds when suddenly moved?

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Moving around a CPU while it's on usually isn't much reason for concern. How else would your phone continue to function after you toss it around all day? Everything else though, especially the physical wiring and connections between components, are at risk with a sudden shock. Hard drives are usually the number one thing to fail after sudden impact or G-forces, and after that would be the snapping of the tiny traces on PCB's. Individual components like caps and resistors are... solid. That's why SSD's are so much more resistant to shock than traditional hard drives.

I'd be cautious of two things if your mom kicked a cable:
1.) socket connectors breaking inside your graphics card
2.) potential short circuits inside caused by sudden shock dislodging something not meant to be dislodged

This is why you cable manage your entire desk, not just the inside of your PC, even if you're like me and your desk goes right up against the wall.
 

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But this is a "Skylake" CPU - they even had the hardest time ever making the billions of components 14nm from 22nm architecture. While mobile CPUs may be different - designed for big sudden movement - mine not.
 

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(read my last reply above)
I'm trying to reason this in my head - if she banged the floor it may have not hurt the poor CPU, if she made the case move fast all the sudden and then stop fast all the sudden it may have not hurt the poor CPU, if she made it tip in the x or y axis and then fall back the tip may have not hurt the poor CPU and the fall back's vibration may have not hurt the poor CPU, if she went on an angle to the wall to her phone and hit the case with her foot while tripping on the HDMI cable and made the case also move fast all the sudden and stop fast all the sudden while also making it rotate and tip and fall back it may have not hurt the poor CPU.

It definitely hurt the poor CPU <mod edit>

I'm working with the most important true working information about the universe and AI and don't want undetected decimal corruption of color shades and text characters.

<Watch your language in these forums>
 

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Mobile CPU's are often on an even smaller manufacturing process than desktop chips. Also, a transistor, however complicated or small, is still a solid object. Gates are not physical objects, but simple on/off states. Dropping a block of metal on the bed doesn't damage the metal, let alone a drop of metal encased in a box of metal, padded by soft plastic with a huge crumple zone. The action of tipping a case around shouldn't warrant a dead CPU. Or dead anything for that matter, unless you installed it wrong.

CPU's are not designed to be stationary or moving. As long as they aren't contorting, whether it be by bending your phone or kicking your CPU socket in the butt with steel-toed boots, they'll continue to work as long as the power delivered to them is constant and stable. Power instability kills CPU's a lot more than physical impact.

Solid objects don't fail under minor physical strain or shock, the connections between them do. The connections are always the weak point, since at one point in time, they were separate entities.

Also, the object your mother kicked is attached to the graphics card, a component designed to separate physically as a daughter board from your mainboard. I'd be more worried about your graphics card or PCI-e slot being dead.

A CPU takes a lot to kill, and believe me, I've tried. I've lit several motherboards on fire trying. Every time, the CPU survived. I sold it to my friend with a full refund guarantee. He's been using it for 2 years now, still going strong.
 

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Ohhh it just keeps getting worse! I realized the DVD LG was the thing making the case and even the top of the monitor rumble vibe and is very very loud and only when the disc was in and only when it was installing windows 7....I could have used USB/SSD/better-quite-DVD like HDDs are not so vibe-creating........now this could have moved the CPU atoms! :( :(

I hope I find a not so torturious (if at all) tool to test if ALL CPU components are working AND if they can work/not-work at sometimes and get by the test. I'd like to know.
 

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Oh and now that clothes washer that speeds up so fast, my pc has been on the floor for a whole day or two to feel it multiple times since we use it lots....noooooooo...........

Source for "CPU is really solid inside"? And how exactly is it? Yeah small nano metal but what if the vibe moved it/etc even just 1 and it's garbage.
 
Processors are not even close to that susceptible to vibration. My PC sits on the floor, has for years. I live in a manufactured home meaning there is no solid foundation. I can feel the washer going, I can feel people stomping around the house, and my PC is fine.
I now live on campus where we have earthquakes, and the system is still fine.
 

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But this is Skylake, it was intel's hardest yet (14nm). Haswell is 22nm, ivy I think is 32nm.

Again, provide proof sources though....feedback is nice but proof is really needed for such things like this (especially because I work with important data).