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Bad processor statistics?

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Anyone have a white paper or some statistics of bad Intel processor right out of the box?

What about certain motherboards? I would be interested to know if it is something like 1% or more around .001%.
 
i would say cpus would be closer to 0.001%. i would say motherboards are 1%, or higher. but this is only personal experience with around 250 new cpus (none bad) and 80 to 100 motherboards (prob 3 or 4 asus and 1 dfi doa). but i havent had any doa motherboards in the past 3 years, qa getting better, maybe.
 
vanilla_guerilla said:
i would say cpus would be closer to 0.001%. i would say motherboards are 1%, or higher. but this is only personal experience with around 250 new cpus (none bad) and 80 to 100 motherboards (prob 3 or 4 asus and 1 dfi doa). but i havent had any doa motherboards in the past 3 years, qa getting better, maybe.
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Any "proof" to this, like at cnet or a reputable site that did a white paper on statistics of a bad processor or statistics of a bad motherboard?
 
Never had a DOA CPU in the last 16 years. I've had my fair share of DOA mobos though.
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CPUs are usually extensively tested (binned) so it is quite logical that there would be a low DOA rate.
 
I have never seen a DOA cpu in the 200+ new chips I have purchased. Hard drives on the other hand have a 3 to 10% DOA rate at least for me at newegg and again I am talking about 100s purchased.

Out of a few hundred, I have had my hands on 2 bad cpus though. 1 was purchased on eBay as part of as is system combo deal for around $135 and I was not expecting to use the CPUs from that anyways. The second was an Athlon 1 Thunderbird (ran hot) where the fan died on the heatsink and it fried the chip.
 
I've never personally had a DOA CPU, but I have seen some P4 CPUs that were DOA from Dell.

Since other people mentioned motherboards I will put in my two cents abotu that as well.

The percentage of DOA motherboards has gone down a massive amount in the past 3-4 years.. and compared to 8-9 years ago, the rate is phenomenal.

The worst example I can think of is when I worked at a computer store back in 2000-2001.

Super Micro server motherboards had about a 90% DOA rate, Tyan had about a 20-30% DOA rate, Asus and Abit about 10-15%, and Biostar which had recently just come on the market - we were buying directly from Biostar- had nearly a perfect score for DOA.

We sold more Biostar motherboards than all the other brands combined at that time and had almost none come back.
 
SuperMicro with a 90% DOA rate? How would they still be around? They are a great name now in the server market.
 
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