Did any of your last cpus ever died?
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rickzor
April 14, 2009 10:11:14 PM
I was just wondering..this is not me most common piece that dies on a pc, so i was wondering if any of you already experienced a dead cpu for any reason? overheat, overclock...too many cicles ?
Sidenote: one cpu already died on me, an athlon xp 2000+, the cooler felt, the cpu didnt die instantly, but within a month it died slowly giving me each time more errors, blue screens and artifacts!
So please, share your experiences!
Sidenote: one cpu already died on me, an athlon xp 2000+, the cooler felt, the cpu didnt die instantly, but within a month it died slowly giving me each time more errors, blue screens and artifacts!
So please, share your experiences!
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The Third Level
April 14, 2009 10:14:28 PM
A GPU once died on me, I tried to remove the cooler stuck in "now-rock-solid" thermal paste and I must have caused micro-fractures, I was getting all kinds of artifact in both 2D and 3D apps.
There is this once I gave my old MB+CPU to my brother, he told me it didn't work anymore ... could be the MB, the CPU or a transportation accident ... it was working just fine a week before when I upgraded.
There is this once I gave my old MB+CPU to my brother, he told me it didn't work anymore ... could be the MB, the CPU or a transportation accident ... it was working just fine a week before when I upgraded.
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ravenware
April 14, 2009 10:53:11 PM
Don't know man, never happened to me. (p4 2.4GHz, 2800+ Barton, 3700+ San Diego, 4200+ Toledo OC'd, numerous P4 office machines that have been running for years)
Perhaps if you kept your chip at unsafe heat levels for an extended period of time it would eventually fail. (chip creep or something like that)
Otherwise I would blame any other component in the system before the CPU.
Perhaps if you kept your chip at unsafe heat levels for an extended period of time it would eventually fail. (chip creep or something like that)
Otherwise I would blame any other component in the system before the CPU.
misry
April 14, 2009 11:22:16 PM
None personally but I've seen several over the course. The first was a 286 in a DIPP package. The guy tried to piggyback the chip like you used to do memory. The last one was a Mountain Dew Event while the guy was puttng on an aftermarket HSF and thought mopping it up was all he needed to do. I keep telling these people, when you let the magic smoke out of the chip it won't work anymore.
Yes. An AMD T-Bird (Unlocked of course!). I got a 2nd hand PC with it, swapped out board, and did a li'l OCing. I had the voltage set WAY too high and died about 2 years later. It was a fun chip tp play with. RIP. (Btw, I did not do much (except for the unlock) re-search on OCing back then, just messed with the settings and figured out most of it by trial and error.
rickzor
April 15, 2009 1:27:52 PM
ravenware said:
Otherwise I would blame any other component in the system before the CPU.Exactly, it's almost instinctive when you got a faulty computer, you will blame anything else before the cpu.
But a cpu can die due to too many cicles over the years (not overheat), and that's because of electro-migration, which causes the ware-out of the inner conductors of the chip itself, but that will only happen if that conductor had been used for trillions and trillions of times, and that should be why we dont see a cpu diyng on us due to too many use (in proper cooling condictions).
rags_20
April 15, 2009 2:06:19 PM
SpinachEater
April 16, 2009 2:36:33 AM
angry_ducky
April 16, 2009 3:24:17 AM
AKM880
April 16, 2009 3:36:57 AM
rags_20
April 16, 2009 4:09:47 AM
AKM880
April 16, 2009 6:11:34 AM
rags_20
April 16, 2009 7:30:47 AM
AKM880
April 16, 2009 8:02:31 AM
Ravenica
April 16, 2009 10:05:13 AM
rags_20
April 16, 2009 1:31:30 PM
rags_20
April 16, 2009 5:01:17 PM
That's a really dumb question. nForce boards run best with nvidia cards, but non-nForce boards with single PCI-E slots run both the same way. nForce is nvidia. Might as well have gone for a 275 since you have an nForce.
EDIT: Its not like you need to get an nForce for an nvidia card, but why would you get nForce if you don't want nvidia? I just want to know why. Its not like it's wrong.
EDIT: Its not like you need to get an nForce for an nvidia card, but why would you get nForce if you don't want nvidia? I just want to know why. Its not like it's wrong.
rags_20 said:
That's a really dumb question. nForce boards run best with nvidia cards, but non-nForce boards with single PCI-E slots run both the same way. nForce is nvidia. Might as well have gone for a 275 since you have an nForce.EDIT: Its not like you need to get an nForce for an nvidia card, but why would you get nForce if you don't want nvidia? I just want to know why. Its not like it's wrong.
Because I had 4GB of DDR3 at the time, and only the 790i had DDR3 support at that time for an Intel processor.
I also had to go to ATI, as I was having a lockup issue for a while, and I wasn't sure if it was NVIDIA GPU Drivers or NVIDIA Nforce drivers, so I changed to ATI to eliminate one of the two possible causes (it was bad Nforce drivers; an update fixed the issue).
That, and Crimson Skies won't work properly with NVIDIA GPU's, due to a (since fixed) bug in its drivers that the game programmers used at the time.
rags_20 said:
That's a really dumb question. nForce boards run best with nvidia cards, but non-nForce boards with single PCI-E slots run both the same way. nForce is nvidia. Might as well have gone for a 275 since you have an nForce.nForce boards won't make a big/notable difference if your not running SLi...
rags_20
April 17, 2009 1:16:42 AM
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