Re:AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors
by pixl97 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @03:36PM
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I guess that depends on the nature of the failure and the fragility of the part.
If you're staying inside the recommended voltage its likely the product will have a long life. For example look at the life curve of capacitors (and I'm not talking the diseased ones we had to deal with in the 2000s). The 'hotter' we run them the shorter their lifespan is. Now what can be difficult to figure out via testing is to figure out the MTBF when you have a hard cutoff point for failure that's not very much higher than standard operating specs. We could be failing at 100 hours at 1.4v, and 10,000 hours at 1.3v. Or it could last 100,000 hours at 1.3v.
If you're staying inside the recommended voltage its likely the product will have a long life. For example look at the life curve of capacitors (and I'm not talking the diseased ones we had to deal with in the 2000s). The 'hotter' we run them the shorter their lifespan is. Now what can be difficult to figure out via testing is to figure out the MTBF when you have a hard cutoff point for failure that's not very much higher than standard operating specs. We could be failing at 100 hours at 1.4v, and 10,000 hours at 1.3v. Or it could last 100,000 hours at 1.3v.