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    My 5950x failed after only 8 months of standard usage

    I think this might actually be the issue. The house is old (1962) in an area prone to high winds and I do occasionally see my lights flicker. I got solar installed last year and I've been on the waiting list for Tesla Powerwall for a year now. I think I'll pick up a cheap UPS for now just to see.
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    My 5950x failed after only 8 months of standard usage

    Spoke too soon on the GPU issue The display manager not being able to draw to the screen bug is back (GPU crashing). Restarting /etc/init.d/display-manager works but it kills all my running programs so I might as well restart at that point. Back to the drawing board on that one.
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    My 5950x failed after only 8 months of standard usage

    It's a Corsair RM850x. I replaced it with the same one cause it made it easy not having to re-run all the cables what with the existing modular cable already being there. The swap out took all of 5 minutes. Actually not sure. It could have been the PSU. I've been running the desktop now for 24...
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    My 5950x failed after only 8 months of standard usage

    I was using Gentoo Linux which means I was compiling everything from scratch. I was completely recompiling things every time there was a version update which includes chromium, Firefox, the Linux kernel, I mean literally everything you'd expect to have on a Linux box. My machine has over 1500...
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    My 5950x failed after only 8 months of standard usage

    Boom. Replacement booted on the first try.
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    My 5950x failed after only 8 months of standard usage

    Unlikely as I gave this machine the white glove treatment. I even went ahead and replaced the power supply though I am not discounting the possibility that the old psu somehow damaged it. But like I said I already sent the motherboard in for an RMA and they do check it for things like that while...
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    My 5950x failed after only 8 months of standard usage

    Did you not read the article I linked? 2.9% failure rate for brand new DOA CPUs is atrocious. Who knows how high that number goes in the years after. Not everyone chooses to RMA and go through the hassle so we'll never know the real number. I suspect 5% is the real number. And who knows how many...
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    My 5950x failed after only 8 months of standard usage

    I used to run a LAN center where I built all the desktops by hand plus been in tech for 20 years myself and have built and worked on hundreds of servers over the years. This is the first CPU I've ever had fail on me. It's so incredibly rare that I'm in shock.
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    My 5950x failed after only 8 months of standard usage

    System Info Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero w/ BIOS version 4006 [released 2022/03/10] G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) XFX Speedster MERC319 AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Black NZXT Kraken Z63 water cooling with excellent in-office ventilation I had actually purchased this CPU a full year...
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    AMD Misses Big CHANCE

    I've been wanting to purchase a 5950x for quite a bit but since I'm in Hawaii I'd prefer to use Amazon Prime for shipping. I'm also an AMD share holder so this whole experience has been frustrating to say the least.
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    The ultimate price gouge

    Yes, that's what I said. They outsource their production. TSMC announced they were gonna build a foundry in AZ but as of November it was "some time next year". Who knows when you'll be able to buy a fully american built AMD CPU or GPU if ever.
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    The ultimate price gouge

    I actually work on my PC and need the GPU. If my 1080TI dies today I'm gonna have to shell out a ton of cash to get a replacement asap. Most of that money will probably end up in a foreign company's bank account. Meanwhile I'm competing with people who are buying them as a luxury good but also...
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    RGB LED SSDs are Good for Gaming

    Just give me a black box and get the fuck off my lawn.
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    Google Pixel 3 Has a Titan M Security Chip

    Anyone notice how the notch is there even though the screen doesn't even go all the way to the bottom like the iPhone? The iPhone only has a notch so they can have a front facing camera while using the entire screen. So basically they include a notch for no fucking reason now other than to...
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    TV Cord-Cutting Accelerating at Much Faster Pace than Predicted

    I don't even have Netflix anymore cause I'm tired of spending money on shows that got broadcast over the air in the 90s. Recording said shows is/was legal when they aired so I don't even consider my private raid array worth of shows to even be piracy.
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