Have you ever killed something through overclocking?

[Muerto]

I've heard lots of people talk about the dangers of overclocking. How you will fry your CPU, video card, RAM, whatever. But I rarely ever hear someone say that they actually did kill what they were overclocking. So have you ever pushed something just a little too far and have it die?

 

[helloedchen]

me personally no, but i see a couple that come through the shop here that have burnt chips due to oc'ing. ppl just don't know what they are doing and sometimes pump way too much voltage into it, causing some crispy action.

 

[Sushi]

Well, I guess I never "killed" anything, but I did scramble a hard drive or two in my overclocking adventures. LOL

 

[Adul]

i hda a few reformats do to overclocking a few times. nothing toasted yet.

 

[Hanpan]

NOT yet.

 

[shawnmos]

no, not yet anyway.

 

[spamboy]

Really the only way you could totally fry something is if your make a stupid mistake like put your heatsink on wrong or forget to plug in the fan or feed it twice the voltage it is supposed to have. If you creep up the MHz, and move the voltage to safe maximum, the system will get unstable in Windows before you even get close to hurting anything.

As for the hard disks, yeah, I've corrupted the data on a few myself. Kind of just depends on what model you have. And after reformatting, they always work fine again. New ones are usually fine. I can remember a few all-nighters trying to get the family computer back the way it was after screwing up the HD overclocking our PII.

 

[RGN]

I fries a 486sx 20MHz. I was running it at 80Mhz with out a fan, heatsink but no fan.

ALL of the 5 computers currently in my house are overclocked. Some PPro @ 233 have been that way for years.

 

[Charles]

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

 

[Rand]

I've overclocked countless processors, video cards etc.
Only twice have I ever had a problem, once I killed a Fujitsu HDD by pushing the PCI bus too high, and I once killed an old K6-2 300MHz. With the K6-2 it died only trying to overclock it to 333 @ default voltage.
Besides that I've never had a problem and I've overclocked lots of times, in general unless your reaaaly pushing the voltage or trying to o/c ridiculously high it's safe.

 

[Ausm]

Fried 3 Maxtor 7200 30 gig drives running at 150 MHZ FSB

Ausm

 

[Muerto]

I've pushed my Duron up to 800MHz and the RAM on my MX to 200 without any problems. It seems like the hard drive is most likely to die than anything else.

 

[Bartman39]

Some how or another screwed up an AGP slot (with a V3 3K) I thought it was the card but turned out after limping by with an old Voodoo Rush PCI till the V3 3K came in (RMA) that the AGP was fubar. But after a complete reformat and install everything was ok??? BTW was a PPGA 300a @126fsb and going for 133fsb (was a nice chip and is still inservice @558 2.1)

 

[LuNoTiCK]

I dont get how would a hard drive die when your overclocking?

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

Once, I killed my cat.

 

[Riverhound]

here the only thing i've burnt, but it still works. sold it for $20. burnt it overclocking it about 10mhz, what a pile.

www.angelfire.com/nm/2iver/vodoo3_burnt.jpg

 

[chiwawa626]

NaughtyusMaximus, i was about to post that, then i saw ur reply lol "Once, I killed my cat."

 

[Spoooon]

I killed my old GeForce 2 MX. Even though there were no artifacts etc, the memory just couldn't handle the increased speed.

 

[Whitedog]

<<I dont get how would a hard drive die when your overclocking>>

When you increase the bus speed to outside of the 33mhz cycle.. i.e. 66/100/133, you are messing with the PCI bus as well... Hard drive controllers (a lot do) go nuts when they run at speeds above 37mhz... thus corrupting hard drives..

My advice for you crazy overclockers, stick to 100/133 bus speeds to keep your PCI bus at 33. It's not worth risking your Hard drives for an extra FPS.. You'll LIVE! Your HD won't.

 

[Whitedog]

You remember the old 486 HS/fans? Tiny huh. I got hold of an old system and put a BIGASS Heatsink/fan on it. I ran a i486 DX2/66 at 125MHz! (50x2.5) It's still running at that speed as far as I know. I was fixing up someones computer.. he still doesn't know what I did, he is just real happy it runs SOOOO Much faster now.

 

[dpopiz]

just making sure:
hdd probs only come from oc'ing the fsb, right

 

[Hanpan]

As far as problems from overclocking yeah

 

[sharkeeper]

I once got mad because I couldn't overclock my AMD 486DX4 120 to 160. I lost my temper and threw a deck of cards my mother got from Golden Nugget Casino into the fireplace!

Cheers!

 

[lonewolfz28]

Does hitting a coyote while doing 80mph in a 55 zone count?

 

[Vrangel]

Killed Maxtor HD. It came to screeching halt
after I ran some odd fsb setting.

Oh well, it had some warranty left....