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PC DIED!
boxer4:
I've never seen an actual CPU "die" except when overclocking/overvolting.
The only CPU I had die on me is this one Celeron 300A that I drilled (for SMP)/overvolted/overclocked. It worked flawlessly for a year, and then it started having problems that couldn't be solved by cleaning/cooling it better. Thus failure.
Oh well, not a big deal. It's just a celeron.
Hard drives by far is the most failure prone device. Memory and motherboards tend to be "if good from store, it's good till now" unless it's been abused...
I only have a sparingly few number of machines that have primary boot disks using solid state devices - two with compact flash disks and one with a mPCIe (eeePC). Haven't had them fail yet (knock on wood). I expect the CF disks to last a long time as I don't write to them (in fact, the media are mounted read-only), and no idea how long the eeePC will last. Fortunately I don't write to the disk all that often.
NaRu:
--- Quote from: boxer4 on May 18, 2010, 11:33:08 AM ---I've never seen an actual CPU "die" except when overclocking/overvolting.
The only CPU I had die on me is this one Celeron 300A that I drilled (for SMP)/overvolted/overclocked. It worked flawlessly for a year, and then it started having problems that couldn't be solved by cleaning/cooling it better. Thus failure.
Oh well, not a big deal. It's just a celeron.
Hard drives by far is the most failure prone device. Memory and motherboards tend to be "if good from store, it's good till now" unless it's been abused...
I only have a sparingly few number of machines that have primary boot disks using solid state devices - two with compact flash disks and one with a mPCIe (eeePC). Haven't had them fail yet (knock on wood). I expect the CF disks to last a long time as I don't write to them (in fact, the media are mounted read-only), and no idea how long the eeePC will last. Fortunately I don't write to the disk all that often.
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when I said my PC died I mean my system HDD died (counldnt boot up windows) that consider dead to me
xShadow:
He was replying to kyanwan's last post, not your opening post. >_>
*Knocks on wood several times*
I haven't actually ever had a hard disk die on me, at least I don't think I have. I've had some of these hard drives for an upwards of 5+ years. I know this is kinda jinxing myself but just saying... Hard drives don't actually fail that much. I guess if they fail within the first month or so, then they fail. After a month or two, if they're still working perfectly fine, they're likely going to work perfectly fine for years to come. At least that's been my experience. Maybe I'm just lucky. *Lolknockonwoodlol*
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