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ortek_service · 10th May 2021, 9:56 pm

Although it might depend on whether the original IC's would fail due to age, or being used for a long-time.
However, many Commodore IC's did run rather warm which seems to shorten their life with many ROM's (and even CPU's in C16/+4) failing quite early compared to ones in other makes.

And replacements using a much more recent standard IC, usually run significantly-cooler so should help reduced stresses on the rest of the equipment.

10th May 2021, 9:56 pm	#9
ortek_service Octode Join Date: May 2018 Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire, UK. Posts: 1,440	Re: Commodore 64 SID chip type? Although it might depend on whether the original IC's would fail due to age, or being used for a long-time. However, many Commodore IC's did run rather warm which seems to shorten their life with many ROM's (and even CPU's in C16/+4) failing quite early compared to ones in other makes. And replacements using a much more recent standard IC, usually run significantly-cooler so should help reduced stresses on the rest of the equipment.