Have you ever killed something through overclocking?

[Dexion]

Technically, No.

I have never directly destroyed any CPU, over the years I have overclocked basically every CPU I had my hands on.
486DX50@66
Pentium150@200
Pentium 200mmx@233
Pentium233mmx@300
Celeron300@450
Celeron400@600
Pentium 2 450@600
Celeron566@875
Pentium 3 650E@960
Thunderbird 850@1Ghz
Duron 600@1Ghz

The only CPU that was ever ruined was the Pentium 3 650E, however that was through extreme cooling not overclocking. The use of a peltier caused severe condensation which in turn fried the CPU. Other than this, I have never broken a CPU with overclocking techniques.

 

[Mustanggt]

Never.

 

[Jarhead]

Been overclocking CPUs since 1987, starting with a 286, never fried anything.

 

[PCAddict]

I roasted a Quantum hard drive once. It didn't like the PCI speed.

 

[jhouston]

Adaptec 2940 U2W Host Adaptor but luckily Adaptec replaced the complete retail kit for free!

 

[sharkeeper]

I tried overvolting a furby. Didn't last long!

Cock-A-Doodle-Do!

Cheers!

 

[emjem]

Not yet.

 

[OS]

<< 2 friends of mine killed their hard drives. They both use FSB of 112 MHz and above. >>



Same exact thing with me. Killed a hard drive. I've also killed a video card from overclocking.

 

[GopherMobile]

Nothing for me. I work at a computer shop, and I've actually only seen one system come in from being fried so far. Of course people who overclock wouldn't really need to bring their system into a computer shop to figure things out but still =).