How often to intel chips just die?

[IO Studios]

Hi,

I'm weighing the options for delidding and I'm curios about 2 things.

#1. How often does intel 3 year limited warranty come in handy? I mean how often does an i7-7700k just stop working and the warranty is useful.

#2. If I bought  my cpu off amazon, and I delid, and my cpu dies, does amazon warranty still count?

 

Btw I'm using an i7-7700k

Thanks

 

[vanished]

Basically never.  Unless you over volt them or drop them or something strange, they will virtually never fail from just age and/or normal use.

[Gikero]

Just had a power surge kill a client's power supply and motherboard. I popped his 7700K into a spare board and it worked fine. I mention this because in general, CPUs tend to last quite a while if all the proper care is taken.

[IO Studios]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Basically never.  Unless you over volt them or drop them or something strange, they will virtually never fail from just age and/or normal use.

Oh okay, thanks

[iRileyx]

Imo i think they only give a 3 year warranty cause not many CPU's die before then, probably 2-5% if I had to guess.

But even then, they can keep chugging happily for 7+ years with safe voltage and temperatures.

[Princess Luna]

Intel officially claims their processors will live up to 15 years of usage on their stock frequencies.

[sambarr]

Motherboards will fry, power supplies will blow up, drives will fail, but processors live FOREVER*

 

*almost

[TVwazhere]

6 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Intel officially claims their processors will live up to 15 years of usage on their stock frequencies.

Well past what any mortal should consider using those chips for their main computer  

[Rolling Potatoe]

I would usually say almost never, but I had a Z170 board that died while I was playing Witcher 3

that also killed my m.2 SSD and my CPU, so....sometimes?

[Princess Luna]

Just now, TVwazhere said:

Well past what any mortal should consider using those chips for their main computer  

If your overclock is stable enough what should it truly do to the life expectancy? you lose 2 or 3 years due to the higher frequency so you still have like 12 years of usage on it meaning it won't die before you're done with it by all means.

[MyName13]

28 minutes ago, Gikero said:

Just had a power surge kill a client's power supply and motherboard. I popped his 7700K into a spare board and it worked fine. I mention this because in general, CPUs tend to last quite a while if all the proper care is taken.

Shouldn't PSUs protect from surges (unless it was caused by a lightning)?Motherboards should also have some protections.

[thorhammerz]

That depends on how you define stability & life expectancy: technically degradation occurs when your processor is unable to run at X frequency given Y volts.  

 

If your CPU running at 5.0 GHz needs right now a minimum of 1.28 volts, but needs a minimum of 1.32 volts 4 years later, then:

• You would not notice anything if you've been feeding it 1.35 volts all along, but
• You would notice (e.g. BSOD) the degradation if you've only been feeding it 1.3 volts.

 

[Gikero]

1 minute ago, MyName13 said:

Shouldn't PSUs protect from surges (unless it was caused by a lightning)?Motherboards should also have some protections.

Nothing man made works 100% of the time. But yes, it should have been able to protect the motherboard. =/

[Emberstone]

1 hour ago, thorhammerz said:

If your CPU running at 5.0 GHz needs right now a minimum of 1.28 volts, but needs a minimum of 1.32 volts 4 years later, then:

• You would not notice anything if you've been feeding it 1.35 volts all along, but
• You would notice (e.g. BSOD) the degradation if you've only been feeding it 1.3 volts.

 

I wonder if CPU degradation also includes a decline in performance rather than just it working or not working at a given voltage.

 

I'm kinda paranoid about this question because I recently tried to run Cinebench on my CPU at 4.1 GHz and 1.4v, which of course wasn't stable so I'm back to 4.0 GHz and 1.337v, but after testing the CPU again afterward to make sure all was good, my Cinebench score was no longer reaching the 1340s, it was in the mid 1330s with every run.

 

That said, I have updated my BIOS at least once or twice since I got my score of 1346, and there have also been a few Windows updates, so that likely plays more of a factor than the fact that I ran Cinebench once at 1.4v and crashed.