WoW, haven't seen this in awhile

[Budd]

after like three years, i have finally come across another bad Intel CPU. its a celeron 600 that causes random freezes and SLOOOOOW performance. i was just really surprised that it was the cpu. this is only the second bad (none socket 7 that is) intel cpu i have seen in almost 5 years of teching.

[Garak]

i have only seen one bad chip, an intel 233 - all the others where cooked by voltage spikes.... ouch...#!

[AlienDyne]

6 CPUs within 4 years.

3 of them were faulty, 3 died by bad voltage.

[Garak]

[quote]Originally posted by AlienDyne:
<strong>6 CPUs within 4 years.

3 of them were faulty, 3 died by bad voltage.</strong><hr></blockquote>

bad voltage to do with the board?

and what where the chips soc.7 or above?

[Matridom]

I've only ever seen on bad Intel CPU.. a celeron 600 coppermine.. caused random reboots. I've seen P2's with scorch marks on the heatsink still working. I can't say the same of AMD.

[Fubarian]

I've seen no bad intels as of yet. Seen 5-10 bad amds (fans goin out then cpu go pop).

[Antimatter]

Seen bad 486s from being run with no H/S, a Celeron 333(CPU cooler fell off), K6 333(bad cache but still runs in an MSI board with no probs), PII-350(overheating), Celeron 600(bad board voltage), PIII 700(unknown cause). Probably seen more than that but can't think of them offhand.

[Larommi]

I see a few here and there fail for no reason. No biggie, I am impressed with the microtechnology that more dont fail.

[AlienDyne]

[quote]Originally posted by Garak:
<strong>

bad voltage to do with the board?

and what where the chips soc.7 or above?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Bad voltage caused by bad power supplies. Most of the times, the board died as well.

The chips were PII and above.

[Garak]

[quote]Originally posted by AlienDyne:
<strong>

Bad voltage caused by bad power supplies. Most of the times, the board died as well.

The chips were PII and above.</strong><hr></blockquote>

aah me sees said the blind man - so it wasnt the chips

[Radical Dreamer]

Seen 1 bad P1 133 havent seen an AMD die yet, cept user error (using too much force and cracking it and running it without a hsf)