[thereddaikon]

Outside of overclocking its very rare to see a failed CPU. Validation testing at the fab almost always catches the lemons and it usually takes special circumstances for one to degrade after fabrication. OC'ing with higher voltages is the most common culprit. The number of honestly bad CPUs I've seen in my IT career I can count on my hand. Intel's current issue is due to a manufacturing error and definitely qualifies as extraordinary circumstances.

[whizzter]

At some point CPU manufacutrers started treating overclocking as a feature rather than somethings hobbyists do and then computer OEMs started to tune things for this, but due to the quick generation cycles without any kind of long term testing it's only been a matter of time until we started seeing these issues since Moors law hasn't helped much with single core performance for years.

My current laptop was getting uncomfortably hot when some random browser pages started pressing the cpu, after searching I noticed that the default setting was to enable some kind of "Boost Mode" (that's basically overclocking in the classic sense), disabling that made a world of difference and looking at the failure rates of the Ryzen 5000 series in the article I'm not a single bit surprised about it.

Googling the laptop family you get tons of Reddit hits, https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/comments/gho535/importa...

[sqeaky]

Oh yeah, not trying to say this level of failure is normal. Puget getting 5% failures, or thereabouts, is a typical historical failure rate and they are getting it by being more conservative than others. Ending else is running more aggressive defaults.

I was just trying to provide a few examples of real first hand failures. And most OCing doesn't break anything, but every once in a while you set some voltage and one part never works again, hard not to conclude it was the OC when the failure perfectly coincides. I suppose it could be coincidental, but that stretches credulity.