What to do with bad CPU?

[drurya96]

I've got a Ryzen 7 3700X that's dead. I've already checked off the possibility of returning it and I have a replacement. I'm not sure what went wrong in it exactly, my system started crashing and after testing every component in a separate build, the CPU was clearly the problem.

 

Is there anything I can do with what is basically a paperweight at the moment? Right now my only plans for it involve practicing removing and soldering pins.

[Windows7ge]

1. Frame it on the wall.
2. Paperweight. :3
3. Heated pad to keep your hot drinks warm (saw a guy do this on YT).

[SupaKomputa]

How do you know it's dead?

Have you check the motherboard?

[drurya96]

6 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

How do you know it's dead?

Have you check the motherboard?

I have another build with an identical CPU so I just popped the "bad" one in and that build crashed too. In the build with the bad CPU, I was suspicious that the motherboard may have been what fried it, so I just bought a new motherboard and PSU to be safe. Originally I did go kinda cheap on both of those parts, lesson learned.

[drurya96]

14 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

1. Frame it on the wall.
2. Paperweight. :3
3. Heated pad to keep your hot drinks warm (saw a guy do this on YT).

I'm pretty confident it's dead dead, so these are the kind of ideas I'm going for! Got any other creative thoughts? I was thinking maybe attaching it to something as just an accessory, like a bag or something.

[akio123008]

What it just stopped working out of nowhere?

 

[SupaKomputa]

Such rare case. I suppose the cpu was bad from the factory.

Don't you suppose to return it?

How do they know that's really broken and you're not bullshitting.

[-rascal-]

51 minutes ago, drurya96 said:

I've got a Ryzen 7 3700X that's dead. I've already checked off the possibility of returning it and I have a replacement. I'm not sure what went wrong in it exactly, my system started crashing and after testing every component in a separate build, the CPU was clearly the problem.

 

Is there anything I can do with what is basically a paperweight at the moment? Right now my only plans for it involve practicing removing and soldering pins.

 

Why don't you contact AMD to get a replacement shipped to you...or ask for a refund?

Intel refunded me for my i7-6800K ... full MSRP price after 3-years...

[drurya96]

8 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

Why don't you contact AMD to get a replacement shipped to you...or ask for a refund?

Intel refunded me for my i7-6800K ... full MSRP price after 3-years...

 

38 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Don't you suppose to return it?

How do they know that's really broken and you're not bullshitting.

I've already looked through what I need to do for that and tried going through the process but I didn't have any luck. I'm not concerned about a refund or anything like that though in this particular case.

 

41 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Such rare case. I suppose the cpu was bad from the factory.

I'm really not sure what went wrong. I did find that the SATA connector on the HDD I was booting from was loose, and when I tried to take it out to test which part had failed, the connector broke completely. Maybe that caused something weird? Alternatively, I found out much later that the surge protector it was plugged into wasn't really functioning as a surge protector (frequent brownouts here), and as I mentioned it was a pretty cheap PSU, so that could have fried it I suppose.

[Windows7ge]

1 hour ago, drurya96 said:

I'm pretty confident it's dead dead, so these are the kind of ideas I'm going for! Got any other creative thoughts? I was thinking maybe attaching it to something as just an accessory, like a bag or something.

CPU on your key chain?

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, drurya96 said:

I've already checked off the possibility of returning it

Did you buy it used? Fell off a truck?