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A cpu die but give no error or post code but just keep rebooting in a endless cycle? Friend took it to geeksquad they said he had a bad cpu . I was thinking mem or psu
 
I've never had one die period, but I'd guess that the symptom of a dead CPU would be a dead board - similar to what would happen if you tried to turn it on with no CPU installed at all. Unless there was a possible cause (lightning strike, recently installed, etc) I'd be suspicious of that diagnosis.
 
My friend had the same problem with his i7.
I spent forever trying to diagnose the problem. I eventually reseated the cpu and saw several bent pins in the socket. CPU survived though.
 
after i finally got my hands on it it was the cpu. anyone got a cheap c2d for sale?
 
man thats really unusual ,a cpu dieing..was it o/clocked or o/volted...if running stock and temps were good id say you really had a bunch of bad luck...ive been building computers since 1996 and in all those years ive never run across a bad cpu from amd or intel and some of the rigs were abused as far as o/clocking goes...alot of volts but temps were always kept good no matter what it took to keep them cool...
with that kind of luck i wouldnt buy too many lotto tickets...lol
another question...was this cpu bought used ? if so maybe it was abused before you got it.....
 
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Sure it wasn't the motherboard killing the CPU, you could be sending another one to it's doom!
 
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wesleys_dad said:
man thats really unusual ,a cpu dieing..was it o/clocked or o/volted...if running stock and temps were good id say you really had a bunch of bad luck...ive been building computers since 1996 and in all those years ive never run across a bad cpu from amd or intel and some of the rigs were abused as far as o/clocking goes...alot of volts but temps were always kept good no matter what it took to keep them cool...
with that kind of luck i wouldnt buy too many lotto tickets...lol
another question...was this cpu bought used ? if so maybe it was abused before you got it.....
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I worked as a Dell onsite tech for two years and i saw probably 15-20 faulty Intel CPUs. Some were DOA, some had faulty cache, and some had faulty CPU cores. I also ran into a few P4s that were not stable if HT was enabled.

I've also seen my fair share of faulty Intel CPUs on custom built machines.

Although I have not worked on nor built very many AMD machines since I had my Q6600 setup, I have only ever seen 2 faulty AMD CPUs. I believe one was a K6-2 and the other was an A64 in a Dell.

I have worked on thousands of machines so the percentage of faulty CPUs is pretty low.
 
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