Any one with a AMD FX proccesor! or experianced a proccesor die on them!

[GTX karl]

HI, so yeah I built my own rig with a amd fx 6300 it ran fine and all that until one day it crashed on me in game but it had never ever skipped a beat before this so I tried to reboot and it wouldn't do anything at all not even in safe mode so after a full day of trying to figure out the problem I took it to my local pc shop and they said the problem was my processor had totally died! :O.

Bare in mind it was only 4 month old if that, I used really dear paste and a good top of the line cooler.

any one know why this could have happened, I have never overclocked it at all I use a program called speed fan to keep temps down on idle it was at 26C and under stress and I mean playing bf3 for 4 hours straight on it was 52C my case has 4 120mm fans so there was no overheating. Also I never messed on with any of the voltages all I did was unlock the 6th core and enable the boost.

I have upgraded to a FX 8350 now and hope things go well any one else had any trouble with any cpu doing this before not just amd?

 

[menetlaus]

any one know why this could have happened

Yes it sucks that the CPU died after 4 months and low temps, but it happens.

I'd think if only 4 months old you might be able to approach AMD about warrenty... wouldn't surprise me if they offer a 6/12/24 (?) month warranty on CPU's.

It could also have happened if you have poor power delivery - what's the brand/age/wattage of your PSU? (and what GPU are you running)

 

[Wentworth Watson III]

OK, I have a 8350, and rest assure that you will enjoy this CPU! I recommend getting a SSD drive, a SOLID MoBo, and GTX 660 or higher GPU.

 

[breadkun]

Ehh never really heard of CPUs dying unless you overclocked it too much it literally burned?

Or you increased the voltage?

 

[CooLWoLF]

We need a little more information. Motherboard model?

 

[mauller07]

if it was the processor that died and your using the same mobo for the 8350 then rma the processor as its within manufacturer warranty.

 

[GTX karl]

erm I have a GTX 690 and a 1000w corsair psu I have 2 512gb SSD's and yeah I been playing on battlefield 3 with it all day I have noticed i have gained around 11FPs with it but nothing really eye opening just glad to be back playing. but no I was just asking a question to se if it has ever happened to ay one else I could imagine this happening with a really old and worn cpu but not a basically brand new one.

 

[8350rocks]

erm I have a GTX 690 and a 1000w corsair psu I have 2 512gb SSD's and yeah I been playing on battlefield 3 with it all day I have noticed i have gained around 11FPs with it but nothing really eye opening just glad to be back playing. but no I was just asking a question to se if it has ever happened to ay one else I could imagine this happening with a really old and worn cpu but not a basically brand new one.

The warranty on a processor is voided if you overclock...

However, AMD's warranty on their Processor-in-box CPUs, are 5 years for non OEM models (retail CPUs). So if you bought your CPU from newegg or whomever...you have a 5 year warranty on it from AMD barring you should ever overclock it and ruin it that way.

I would like to comment here as well, in almost 20 years of use from AMD CPUs, I have personally never had one "die". I have had AMD CPUs since the K6-II 300 MHz, and I did have an Intel CPU "die" on me at one point. It was a Pentium III in a laptop...it actually got so hot that the heatsink was *fused* onto the CPU. It was really weird, in fact, and Compaq warrantied the repair. Though the techs themselves couldn't figure out why it had gotten that hot...there was no clear reason for it.

 

[GTX karl]

I bought it from scan computers and I have the box and stuff but no receipt :/

 

[8350rocks]

I bought it from scan computers and I have the box and stuff but no receipt :/

You're good

 

[mauller07]

That's ok just go onto scans site and onto your account there is an rma section, you don't have to say if you overclocked it, they could not even tell if you did.

 

[GTX karl]

I went to there shop this morning and got a full refund so im all good and for the FX guy up there yes sir you are correct I am GOOD!

 

[manofchalk]

@Menetlaus

Dont want to see comments like that again. I have removed them.