how do you recognize, a chip is burned out?
Well either your system will randomly shut down, or it wont turn on again. You will go and try to turn your PC on when you wake up, but you click the power switch 4-10 times and still no power up, then you go to the back of the PC and check the PSU Switch to make sure its flicked to the I not the 0.
After that you rub your eyes and then put your hand on your face and grown, because your PC is acting retarded, and something is loose you get dressed you open your PC up and check every connection to the motherboard, HD drives, video card, and of course the 2-pin Power Switch wire that connects to the motherboard. You do this 2-3 times then switch video cards and take out and put in add-on cards in 10 diffrent configurations. After it hits 12:00 o'clock in the day and your PC still aint turning on, then you think about how long you have run the PC on 1.56 volts and Realize that your CPU Burned out >.>.....
Or your PC Powers up but theres a black screen, but all the fans and everything is still powered just fine. On my system it didnt even turn on i belive. After i put a pent 4 on my motherboard and it booted up, i new my e5200 was burned so i slowly with a tear in my eye walked to the trash can and threw it out
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*EDIT* I did some benching today to see what my old 192 GTX 260 and e5200 with ddr2 1066Mhz ram can pull of on a regular bench on 3dmark06.
No settings were touched with the 3dmark06 everything was left as if you barely installed it(i barly did).
Memory was at 931.2Mhz at 4-4-4-12 Timings
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!!!!. My Old GTX 260 was at 720/1458/1212 clocks, and my processor was at of course 4.413 Ghz at a blazing 1.76 volts...
LOL
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