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CPU's don't really break in any timespan that matters to the consumer, be that with or without overclocking. How many times have you had a CPU break? I know of
by scandinavian 11y ago
CPU's don't really break in any timespan that matters to the consumer, be that with or without overclocking. How many times have you had a CPU break? I know of no one who has broken their modern CPU due to overclocking or otherwise.
- Laforet 11y agoI have seen CPUs bricked from moderate air-cooled overclocking. And it is still possible to kill a chip by feeding it the wrong voltages as long as the motherboard allows it.
- Laforet 11y agoI have seen CPUs bricked from moderate air-cooled overclocking. And it is still possible to kill a chip by feeding it the wrong voltages as long as the motherboard allows it.
- tspiteri 11y agoAdmittedly I don't know how far we are down this line, but as transistors are getting smaller, and the number of transistors in a processor is increasing, transistor degradation during the processor lifetime is becoming a larger issue, and Skylake is already at 14 nm. I think even experts in the field will be unable to give statistics about Intel processor durability, as Intel are not very forthcoming with such statistics.
- kale 11y agoI have had one break. It was flooded when a pipe burst in the house near the computer. And the whole CPU didn't break, only part of the memory controller. So for a while I ran an A10-5800K in single channel mode with a single stick of RAM until I could buy a new CPU. Interestingly, I had water pour out of my HD-7950 (it was completely submerged), and it is still running fine a couple of years later (I did dry it for days on a fan, then completely dissasemble it, wash with isopropanol, and re-assemble it very carefully). They are much hardier than we give them credit for.