[jerryhuang100]

I used to believe that CPU should be the last culprit. One time for my faulty q6600 system i replaced everything except the CPU and finally realized the CPU was the problem. And it's not even overclocked.

Out of my experience of ~8 PC assembled (super small sample size), 2 CPUs kissed bye right after the 3-yrs warranty period, 1 CPU DOA. the good thing is that good guy Intel replaced DOA CPU very fast.

[jmnicolas]

I assemble PCs for my friends, family and I since 20 years, we have something like 10 servers and 30 desktops (some are more than 8 years old) at work and I never had a CPU die on me.

You are really unlucky imho.

[thedaemon]

I guess there are lemons with everything. I'm sitting here still using my Q6600 workstation with no issues. I keep upgrading around it as it's still fast enough.

[ido]

I thought so too, but recently upgraded to a broadwell i7 (4 cores, 8 threads) and compile times have fallen enormously.

[thedaemon]

I am an animator so my requirements are different. A video card makes all the difference for me for viewport rendering speeds. I don't render out that much, but I did notice that my wife's iMac (which is a few years newer than my q6600) renders out at about 2x the speed.