AMD CPU failure possability

BlazGr · Jul 31, 2017

Hello
I am building my first rig and I was first wanted to use a new AMD Ryzen 5 1600 .
But one of my friends told me that they fail many times.
So is that true? Did use experience any issues with your AMD CPUs or did any of your friends have any issues?
Thanks.

Hardware Brad · Jul 31, 2017

I personally have not heard of them failing, they are too new to get a large enough sample size, so I am unsure what your friend is talking about. I've seen AMD FX chips fail, but haven't heard of Ryzen's failing enough to make it news worthy.

JalYt_Justin · Jul 31, 2017

Your friend isn't very knowledgeable. It's too early to tell even if they do fail more often than Intel, and if they do fail, it certainly hasn't showed up here - at least as far as I've seen.

It's rare to see CPUs fail in general - Ryzen isn't an exception.

androbourne · Jul 31, 2017

No. They are pretty good processors. If theirs failed it is most likely due to user error.

CPU failure isn't a common issue, especially DOA CPUs.

Ryzen is a great CPU. Just make sure you install properly and have a decent cooler on it.

jaslion · Jul 31, 2017

BlazGr :

Usually cpu's last so long that they long outlive their time they will be used (I'm talking 15+ years).

10tacle · Jul 31, 2017

What has happened in the first month or two of Ryzen has been motherboard makers not supporting the full line of memory speeds that Ryzen is capable of (and memory makers sell for Ryzen). That's not AMD's issue, it's the motherboard vendors issues (ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, etc.). That was the only real out of gate issue I ever heard from users, and BIOS and revision updates have mostly resolved the memory issue.

jaslion :

I still have these chips and they all still work. The PIII and PIV are still active in Windows 98 retro gaming PCs (for offline only):

Pentium II 333MHz (1998)
Celeron 400MHz (1999)
Pentium III 866MHz (2000)
Pentium IV 3.06GHz (2002)

BlazGr · Jul 31, 2017

Well I meant that my friend had problems with older AMD CPUs and he said that they run pretty hot.

androbourne · Jul 31, 2017

All cpus run pretty hot. That's why they have heatsinks...

AMD in the past has been known to run a little hotter due to the dye size to still be larger compared to Intel back in the day. Also being they normally had more threads so processed data across more lanes then Intel. However, this really inst the case anymore. They run pretty much comparable to Intel.

With proper heatsink\cooling on any CPU. You wont have those heating issues.

Disregard your friends comments. They are from an age that no longer applies (such as the age of tape desks).

Hardware Brad · Jul 31, 2017

BlazGr :

This is true, but consider this, the AMD FX 9000 series were 8 threads and had a 220w TDP. AMDs new Threadripper with 32 threads has a TDP of 155w.

So their new CPU that is four times bigger runs almost half as hot. The FX 9000 series was not good.

10tacle · Jul 31, 2017

In my experience, it's the motherboard that fails long before the CPU ever does. I've had to replace three dead motherboards in 20 years of building PCs. Certain AMDs of past generations did run hot, but so did certain Intels, which includes the current Kaby Lakes.

King_V · Jul 31, 2017

In my experience, I have never had any CPU fail on me, AMD or Intel. We're talking running the gamut from i386 and i486, to both AMD and Intel Socket 7 processors, Athlons in the Slot A days, and Intels in Socket 370, P4, Core 2 Quad, Sandy Bridge, Haswell, and now a Skylake.

No CPU has ever failed on me.

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