ever got a bad processor?

[narreth]

I got a Q6600 OEM on newegg ($230), but newegg only has a 30 day return policy on that processor. I don't live in the US and I'm getting it sent here so I might only have about 10 or so days of return policy. (20 days or so in transit or w/e). Did you ever get a bad processor?

 

[demiurge3141]

Personally never?I think in the days of IHS and pins on motherboards, it's very rare to get a bad cpu.

 

[Idontcare]

Never a bad processor in some 20 years.

Plenty of bad motherboards. Plenty.

But CPU quality control has always been rock solid for me no matter the manufacturer.

 

[hokahknow]

Nope, never had a bad one in probably over a hundred builds.
Only time they go bad is when they are installed improperly. Meaning cooler installed poorly.

 

[narreth]

Even if the cooler is installed poorly, if you keep check of temps you would know something is wrong before the CPU dies right?

 

[firewolfsm]

I had a bad overclocker, but that's different.

 

[Mondoman]

I've never had a bad CPU.

If the cpu cooler isn't quite correctly installed, then yes, the abnormally high temps should alert you that something's wrong. The modern CPUs also have built-in circuitry to slow themselves down or shut off if temps get past a certain point.

 

[Don66]

Once bought a P4 Prescott oem from Newegg and it arrived dead.

Sent it back for a refund.

 

[Spike]

Bought an OEM new e6320 from Fry's B&M in Feb that was DOA. Took me a while but they finally exchanged it under warranty. That was my only dead cpu in 12 builds though I did manage to kill an Athlon T-Bird 1000 with a good old static shock back in the day.

 

[Drsignguy]

Never! Thank God.......

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
Never a bad processor in some 20 years.

Plenty of bad motherboards. Plenty.

But CPU quality control has always been rock solid for me no matter the manufacturer.

actually i got 1.

It was a Q6600. One of the cores was disabled making it a tricore and not quadcore.

The egg honored that RMA, more like refund. :X

 

[Gillbot]

I got two DOA from newegg but they took care of it right away.

 

[lyssword]

nope

 

[Zap]

I've gotten a DOA OEM P4 from Fry's once.

 

[aigomorla]

OP, heres basically the thing. I think your scared about buying OEM's.

As soon as you get it, install it, and then use a stress program like prime95 or OCCT [set for infinite, and let it run for at least 8 hours. The more the better.

On stock settings on everything, the chip should be stable for days and days.

If you dont error out, then the chip will most likely outlive its timeline.

If it errors out, then you need to debug your gear, and debug it fast, cuz it could mean bad board or bad ram or bad psu or bad cpu or you just dont know how to build a computer properly. :X

 

[narreth]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: Idontcare
Never a bad processor in some 20 years.

Plenty of bad motherboards. Plenty.

But CPU quality control has always been rock solid for me no matter the manufacturer.

actually i got 1.

It was a Q6600. One of the cores was disabled making it a tricore and not quadcore.

The egg honored that RMA, more like refund. :X

This scares me.

But I'll take your advice and stress test it right away.

 

[Winterpool]

This is probably the biggest single reason why I shy away from OEM cpus. I never seem able to assemble and test components straightaway, partly because I don't have oodles of spare kit lying round, partly owing to sheer sloth. So if I did receive a bad cpu, I wouldn't know before it was too late. I've an Athlon X2 3800+ OEM which I've not been able to POST, and I don't know if it's a bad chip, or my board needs to have its BIOS flashed, or... If the chip is bad, at this point there's nothing I can do.

This might be the time to ask why OEM cpus have no warranties. I've read that the manufacturer considers the OEM to be the retailer, ie the manufacturer has no obligation at all to the end consumer. But hard drive manufacturers consider the system builder (us) to be the OEM, which makes much more sense, thus we can get OEMl hard drive warranties. Would it be such a $ drain for the cpu manufacturers to provde one-year warranties to us? They could still stipulate that overclocking would void the warranty, etc.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Winterpool
But hard drive manufacturers consider the system builder (us) to be the OEM, which makes much more sense, thus we can get OEMl hard drive warranties.

No, you (and I) are end users. Trust me, if you got a HDD with an OEM warranty, then you would not be able to get warranty on it directly from the manufacturer. For instance, if it was a Seagate drive and you entered in the information to check on warranty, it would show that there was no warranty (even on a new drive) and to contact the OEM. If you want to test this, try getting a warranty from a HDD found in a new name brand computer. Typical "OEM" hard drives are just not retail boxed, but still have "retail" warranty, AKA "end user" warranty.

 

[Winterpool]

The hard drives that online retailers sell as 'OEM', are they then in fact retail, but without packaging? There was a period when Western Digital offered 1-year warranties on retail drives but 3 years for OEM: who was the OEM in those transactions? How would RMAs have worked for end users (none of my drives from that period have yet failed, touch wood)?

'OEM' is one of those terms that I sorely wish the industry players would get sorted.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I've never purchased/received one. I've replaced a few over the past couple years for the ole job however.

 

[Continuity28]

I've personally never received a bad processor from neither Intel nor AMD.

I have received bad motherboards, memory, video cards, hard drives, and power supplies though.