brand new processor lasted 20 minutes

1911a1-fan

February 04, 2007 04:31

i just purchased a supposedly brand new p4 3.4 gig processor, put it in a liquid cooled system, as soon as it hit 55 c* it fried, it should not have done this at all, they are good up to 70c*, and even then they have a thermal shut down, anyway i think this company sent me a used processor, when i opened it it had finger prints on it, and my cooling is excellent, right now I'm at 30c* as I'm typing, and encoding a movie, so now the question is will this company honor their return or do i have to fight a charge-back, you can't trust anyone these days

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  iwannausername

  February 04, 2007 05:26

  Good luck. You aren't trying to overclock are ya?

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  ScharfSchutze

  February 04, 2007 05:37

  That right there is one of the main reasons I only use AMD.... good luck to you [:)]

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  shoff14

  February 04, 2007 06:00

  which company is it?

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  idsman75

  February 04, 2007 06:04

  Here's a big question. You mentioned that it had fingerprints on it. Sometimes skin oils can be detrimental to things that operate at high temps. For example, you dont want to touch the light bulb when installing one in a Mag Light flashlight. I learned the hard way. The bulb got WAY too hot because of my skin oils and fried. Could this have happened with your processor?

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  Warpig883

  February 04, 2007 06:14

  I have a Ronco processor which is 20 years old.
  
  It never gets hot and never breaks down. I use it mostly for grinding up ice for tequila.[;)][:p][:D][:p]

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  1911a1-fan

  February 04, 2007 06:44

  the fingerprints where a sign it may have been used because they only stay on because of thermal paste residue, and i cleaned them off with arctic silver cleaner then reapplied arctic silver5 paste
  
  no i did not over clock it, you need at least a 200 hr break in before attempting to over clock, and a 3.4 prescott is not ideal for overclocking
  
  i will post the company when i get a resolution, i do not want to appear to give a negative comment
  
  amd has applications, and are a good designed chip, but comparing it to a 3.4ghz 800fpb, 1 mg cache that will run at 4.0 gig 1,000+ fsb is apples and oranges, i view them as the ford chevy debate, when they are compared on an equal speed level

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  MVP

  February 04, 2007 06:46

  Did you buy it on Ebay from Hong Kong?

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  nord

  February 04, 2007 07:18

  130*F shouldn't have been an issue. Not at all too warm.
  
  First... These things happen from time to time. Not usual anymore, but they do happen.
  
  Second... You don't have a power supply going out of specs, do you? These new fast CPU's can be picky and they don't tolerate abuse well.
  
  Last comment... Fast and powerful is great, but it's not the end all and be all of computing. Unless you have a software application that requires it, the ability to compute a solution twice as fast as previously becomes moot when your peripherals are too slow to react.
  
  Sort of like two folks getting ready to take a bus downtown. One arrives at the stop 20 minutes early. The other gets there two minutes before the bus does. They both arrive downtown at the exact same moment.

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  1911a1-fan

  February 04, 2007 08:10

  quote:130*F shouldn't have been an issue. Not at all too warm.
  
  First... These things happen from time to time. Not usual anymore, but they do happen.
  
  Second... You don't have a power supply going out of specs, do you? These new fast CPU's can be picky and they don't tolerate abuse well.
  
  if it did reach critical temps it should have shut itself down before damage, no my ps is good
  
  
  +5.1
  +11.9
  +3.3
  -12.3
  +11.9
  5.0
  260nm
  
  i think they sold me a used cpu as new oem, who knows what someone else did to it

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