• glimse@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Aside from major design flaws like these Intel chips, do CPUs ever just die from normal use? I’ve had every single other piece of equipment fail in my decades of building PCs (probably like 50 total) but never the processor

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      3 months ago

      It is rare, but it happens. I think they usually die as a result of less-than-great PSUs.