Have you ever damaged a CPU from overclocking

[Matt1970]

I had a P4 EE 3.2 that ran @ 3.7 and then just one day wouldn't overclock no matter what I did but it was fine at stock.

 

[Centauri]

I fragged an A10-5800K with too much NB voltage last summer. Baby Jesus cried.

 

[HeXen]

I have killed mobo's over a short period of time from the increased stress. OC'ing just doesn't seem as necessary or meaningful as it once did back when cpu's were still under a ghz. I only did it for games though, meant a lot more back when games like Kingpin chugged maxed out on the latest Voodoo card. I haven't had games chug like that in years, not enough to where OC'ing the gpu/cpu helped enough to make it worth a damn.

 

[MongGrel]

CPU no, a Mobo once.

You can go ballistic on a lot of them more than most people seem to believe, if they post at all.

 

[Conroe]

Degraded maybe.

 

[Medikit]

Not overclocking but the original Athlon chips didn't throttle if they were overheating... this was problematic if you didn't realize that your heatsink wasn't seated properly.

 

[john3850]

I chipped a tiny bit off the corner of P-3 Coppermine some how.
That chip was never the same after that.

 

[paul878]

I let the magic smoke out of an AMD cpu because the heatsink wasn't installed correctly, because of that experience I have never brought an AMD cpu since. Intel cpu just freeze for shutdown when run without a heatsink.

 

[Emo]

Fried a Core2Duo E8400 at 3.6GHz after only 1 year. The worst CPU I've ever had. My current i5 2500K has purred along at 4.5GHz for 2 1/2 years now perfectly. The best CPU I've ever had. Go figure.

Strange, I've had the opposite luck, my E8400 is still happily running at 4.2Ghz in my HTPC. I love my i5-3570 too but the E8400 had a much higher % overclock.

 

[(sic)Klown12]

The only time I've ever managed to damaged a CPU was when I chipped the core on a K7 Athlon trying to put on an aftermarket cooler. Iv'e never damaged one just by raising the voltage and clockspeed.

 

[TeknoBug]

No but I had a heatsink fall off my AMD Barton and it fried without shutting off

 

[bryanl]

Not even with a 100% overclock.

 

[Gikaseixas]

I have degraded a CPUs maximum overclock, I have blown multiple motherboards but I have never actually made a CPU fail from overclocking.

Same here
I go all out and with time i'm forced to lower my clock speeds. Happened on the Phenom 9850, 940BE and on my i7 860.

 

[john3850]

Strange, I've had the opposite luck, my E8400 is still happily running at 4.2Ghz in my HTPC. I love my i5-3570 too but the E8400 had a much higher % overclock.

The early E8400 had a hard time hitting 4k so iirc intel changed the stepping which in turn added a few extra cache cycles which gave it a higher oc.

 

[WTSherman]

I've never had a bad chip from Intel. I ran a Q9550 4 years 4 Ghz, didn't even faze the chip, but it devoured boards. I was still using ddr2 800 mhz a month ago with Q9550.