I can be (and i have seen this a few times before) that the motherboard blew the CPU... due to the (i presume) North bridge overheating, the CPU get forced into an erronious loop... eventually blowing it... (typical symptoms is the PC getting SLOW stages, then comming out of it, which gets progressively worse).

It may also be that at some stage you had a power surge, which blew the CPU....

But have both the MB and CPU tested (and swopped out if possible)


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