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by BearOso 298 days ago
They said it took months for each CPU to fail. Both systems used the same inadequate heatsink/fan. Then there's also the lower-end motherboards (they are not "top-quality", the brand means nothing) and the miniscule 450W power supply used in the initial configuration, which are confusingly paired with a 16-core CPU and 64/96GB of RAM.

It doesn't strike me as odd that running an extremely power-heavy load for months continuously on such configurations eventually failed.