CPU life spans

[skimzzz]

Anyone have a CPU die of 'old age?' I just bought a 1.2 T-bird for under $100, and being cautious, ended up buying cooling stuff close to that. I am hoping to keep this one going for at least the next 5 years.

 

[Arrow]

Never for me...

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[Kelledin]

I haven't. The oldest CPU I currently have running is a five-year-old AMD 5x86-133 (a beefed-up 486)--it was the first system I actually built for myself. My father has an Intel 386SX that's even older, but I don't know if he uses it anymore. My high school was running ten-year-old 286 chips at the time I graduated.

Kelledin
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[lhgpoobaa]

oldest ive got would be me 3 year old p2-300.
stuffed 256mb of ram in, new hdd, new graphics and flogged it off to someone


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[Era]

Never heard of a cpu death coused by old age.

 

[Rassler]

i've been running a pII 333mhz for about three years now... couple upgrades....video, ram, etc... but im currently upgrading to a 1.2 ghz athlon tbird....i need more power dis 333mhz just isn't cutting it nemore

Nice people are kool...Mean people just suck :lol:

 

[Tom_Smart]

my cpu generally lasts untill my brother/friends get a faster one!!!!!!!

Although it has a lot of good ideas, beer doesn't know anything about computers!!!

 

[jlbigguy]

I have never lost a CPU to old age, and I am quite old myself. My first PC was a Radio Shack TRS-80, and I have personally owned about 25 computers since. In my company we have had hundreds of computers over the years. None have had CPU failure.

I have had one Pentium MMX processor burn up when the fan (bushing, not ball bearing) on the HSF failed. How long it ran without the fan I don't know, but I contribute the CPU failure to failure of the fan.

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[Matisaro]

10 PRINT "The trs 80 was my first computer too!
20 PRINT "dont you love basic"
30 END


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[jclw]

Hey! I've got a TRS-80 as well!

Re: Kelledin - "My high school was running ten-year-old 286 chips at the time I graduated."

My high school was running brand new 386 chips when I graduated.

- JW

 

[jlbigguy]

While I no longer that the TRS-80 (I had models I, III, and IV), I have a TRS-80 emulator that is just great! It will even boot from the TRS-80 diskettes (I kept those).

Of course, you need a 5 1/4 inch floppy for that.

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