On 14/09/2013 11:29, Grant wrote: >> Everything else is a distant concern. When did you last hear of a CPU >> > failure anywhere at any time? CPUs do not fail for the most part. When >> > they do it's because everything else got hot which brings us back to #2 >> > in the list. > I had one fail a number of years ago but I do think it was because of > heat. Plus I think that was in my overcl0cking days. Out of > curiosity though, would the system continue if I were to lose a CPU > and it didn't fry anything?
That's an interesting question and I honestly don't know the answer - I've never had a cpu fail on me in over 30 years :-) If we are lucky, someone might have experienced it and pipe up as to what happened. And I'm sure someone does regular testing on hot-pluggable cpus by popping one out and monitoring the results. I have no knowledge though -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
