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Xeons go through a more advanced testing process in order to satisfy server OEM's but that's it. There are no details on the amount of rejects from Xeon testing vs consumer chips.
Same silicon ,same process can't see them being "more durable" but since the bulk of them run at lower clocks with strict thermal envelopes there's a lesson there.
Besides which, finding a dead non-OC'd CPU is still pretty rare no matter how old it is. Even people who have had dead stock CPU's (does happen) are often victims of bad motherboard power circuitry without realizing it.
I've never had a CPU fail in the 23 years I've been building PCs'.
I've never had a CPU fail in the 23 years I've been building PCs'.
ones like these?You aren't trying hard enough then... lol
I've killed a few in the attempts for my megahertz(megahurts?? LOL). Never killed any built for duty purposes though.
I had a resister on a AMD Slot A 650 pop off and hit me square in the eyeball while trying to push to limits. These were the card-type CPU's, with heat plate on one side and a plastic shell on the other(shell removed of course to use gold-finger device and to mod the card).
Cooked a couple Pentium 233's, some Socket A Athlons, a Coppermine PIII, K6-2 III, a Pentium 4, and probably a few others. All of course due to trying to push their limits.
Some people claim that Xeon processors are more durable than the i7 counterparts. I seriously doubt it.
Some also claim that Xeon processors are more reliable. I also doubt it.
Can someone have experience to support/against these claims?
Very true. It's not unheard of to see cpu's from 20+ years ago still in service, from the consumer market.
They downclock the xeon chips for stability, and attach a longer warranty. The die and silicon are the same.
Only reason I can think of is that, at least in comparison to a regular consumer i7, a Xeon is a little more physically robust, with a metal TIM between the die and the IHS. It's also physically larger.
They're pretty much identical to Haswell-E/Broadwell-E i7s, though, physically.
As Zepher said, though, I can't remember ever actually killing a CPU of any type. Even back in the bare die Pentium 3/Athlon days, the worst that ever happened is that I had to reset the BIOS.
cpus fail?