Just because your 18 month old CPU hasn't degraded yet doesn't mean it's safe long term. We'll see how many of these CPUs are still functional in 20 years. They'll probably be very valuable to vintage computer collectors because so few survived beyond the first few years of their life.
Ah yes, the classic "20 year speculation test" - the only benchmark where imaginary future failures somehow outweigh actual engineering data.
So by that logic, every modern CPU is doomed and we should all be hoarding 1990s silicon like it’s fine wine? Also good to know that AMD, Intel, and
every thermal design engineer missed the memo that their products were supposed to expire on a schedule.
AMD chips have historically run warmer than their Intel counterparts, yet there’s no wave of CPUs dropping dead from "overheating." Failure rates from that are virtually nonexistent in real-world use.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the chip is running within its designed limits and doing exactly "what it was built to do.”
And if I'm lucky enough to still be around 20 years from now, I kind of believe this CPU will be too - doing exactly what it was designed to do.
This Ryzen 7 CPU is not only crunching Boinc. It's my "Command Center" running 32 Conkys monitoring every aspect of the Boinc Pool. Automated scripts in systemd and Crontab running continuously as scheduled.
It's my gaming PC, my server, "data storage central" and a dozen other things. It's also running my local LLM.
I use open-interpreter with Ollama and 7 models including: phi3, (Phil) mistral, (Misty) llama3.1:8b, (Bob) qwen3.5, (Carol) qwen2.5, (Aida) coadstral (Ted) and wizardlm2 (Alice), so it's not sitting around with ****all to do!
I still have my old AMD Phenom 1090T that I purchased to power my gaming PC in 2009! It's now Running Linux Mint 22.3 with 2 VM's running WattOS 13, crunching for Boinc and still sporting the stock cooler that came with it.
I used this PC for about 3 years, then sold it to a client's Son, who used it as a gaming PC for another 2 years. It was then donated back to me. I "cleaned it up" and installed Windows 7. It was then sold to a guy who just wanted " a good PC" for general computing. He used it for about 3 years then gave it back to me. Again it was cleaned up and resold, this time to an older lady who "just wanted a cheap PC." She had it a long time, maybe 4 years? Someone (not me) upgraded it to Windows 10.
She unfortunately passed away, and the family donated it back to me.
It sat in a storeroom for maybe 12 months, until I needed another PC for my Boinc pool. I filled the ram slots with spare ram, and it's been happily running without issues.
Now, what about my AMD Athlon 4200? I purchased that when Jesus was a boy! It's still running - crunching for Boinc.
Still original cooler, still with original thermal paste (or pad? I don't remember) without issues.
And then there's my old "Turion" powered laptop. I used it for years without issue. It's also crunching away for Boinc....
Oh and not to mention the other 3 AMD powered crunchers in my pool that were PC's I built for clients back in the mists of time that were eventually donated back to me...
