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The rough date you checked will be relevant - as CPUs move to smaller process nodes, they become more susceptible to this type of failure.
by timthorn 7y ago
The rough date you checked will be relevant - as CPUs move to smaller process nodes, they become more susceptible to this type of failure.
- geerlingguy 7y agoAnd in my experience, it's usually not the CPU itself that has an issue, but some flaky solder joint, or the BGA under a chip, just like in the Xbox 360 'red ring of death' era. With mass-manufactured products, if you got a device from a batch that was a few percentage points out of tolerance, the thermal stress can cause issues more quickly than if you didn't introduce the thermal stress.