Have You Killed a CPU or Video Card?

[scoobydooby]

You always hear people saying not to OC too much because it could be harmful but I haven't heard of too many CPU/Video card deaths so I was wondering if you guys could share your experiences. Let me know what died and what it was overclocked at. Thanks.
Scoob

 

[BFG10K]

No, I've never fried or destroyed anything. The only way I can possibly see that happening in my current situation is if the fan on my TBird fails for some reason.

 

[insdav3]

I didn't have a heatsink on my 1700+ amd XP..... i had in my Geforce3 ti200..... (no heatsink = hot) Fried my asus mobo, CPU, and Geforce3 at the same time, and almost my room. Beat that. lol

 

[Fjive]

never killed one before...
but my video card decided to killed itself....ha...
at first...it was the noisy sound from the fan...then...things get 'shaky' on the monitor screen...and then it went blank...
there goes the 2 year old tnt2 ultra...
strange..but the fan is still spinning even though the card sort of went dead...i've tried it in another 2 pc....doesnt work ....

 

[Diable]

I've never killed any piece of hardware yet(knock on wood).

 

[EMAN]

I've killed 2 brand new Athlons because of my POS heatsink. The heatsink grinded up the core.

It was thermoengine heatsink. Now I use something else. Thank god.

 

[Def]

A Visiontek 32MB GF2 GTS died on boot-up over the summer. That thing was a champ too. FYI, it was not OC'd for months preceeding that untimely death.

A week later I also had a 3Com network card die on the same MoBo(Asus CUSL2) on boot-up. That PCI slot died as well.

No idea why this crap happened, but I think it was probably a power surge???

I've never killed anything out of ignorance though...

 

[Amused]

Nope. I've never killed either.

 

[Rand]

I've killed 3 processors, but 2 of those I pretty much knew I was going to kill them as I was overclocking and using voltages far beyond what it was capable of... so I've only accidentally killed 1 processor from overclocking, and I've killed one video card from overclocking too far.

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

CPU and video card wise I'm flawless, but about 4 weeks ago I fried a PS.

The sight glass on my reservoir began to leak. I sealed it with pipe sealant, but in the end the water won. You know you're a true computer nerd when the rebooting of a computer can drag your unconscious mind out of a dead sleep. (My computer only reboots for Microsoft updates...) Luckily the PS was the only thing that got wet and shorted out. Problem is, it was an $80 Enermax!

 

[scoobydooby]

Thanks for the info guys. Rand, what type of CPU's and video card died on you and what were they OC'd at? Just curious.
Scoob

 

[DaejangNim]

I fried my geforce DDR 2 weeks ago from OCing too much for too long, using my voodoo3 until my radeon 8500 gets here ^^

 

[Siddhartha]

Nope, I have not killed any so far

 

[Mitzi]

I've never killed a CPU or graphics card. My currently CPU, an Athlon 1.4 is overclocked to 1.53Ghz, never given me any problems whatsoever.

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

I know DocSmarts has fried a cpu...

 

[han888]

yes, i got one fried xp 1800+

 

[bacillus]

<< Nope, I have not killed any so far >>


ditto

 

[c0rv1d43]

I was working really late on a medical imaging network one night. Had replaced a hard drive in a very expensive AIX workstation and hooked everything back up. I powered everything up and then looked at the big IBM monitor's signal cable. It looked like it might be loose -- like I might not have tightened the screws. So I gave it a little tug to see. Duh! DUH! D-U-H! It came loose and smoked the video subsystem. I ain't too bright when I haven't slept in two days. It's something I wouldn't have done in a million years when I'm awake and running on my normal caffeine quotient.

- Collin

 

[BeauJangles]

I blew my 1.2 @ 1.4... The clip was too loose when I fired her up and by the time I realized it I heard the loud dreaded pop. That was followed quickly by a second loud noise as a capacitator on my mobo blew sky high. Oh happy day :|

 

[Acetate]

I've destroyed the middle slug on the socket of an Asus A7V by forcing the heatsink clip off. This REALLY pissed me off, but oh well.

On another note, a fellow in my class just fried his Athlon XP 1700, but he's a F*CKIN' moron anyways.
First off, he used the wrong heatsink... he inserted it backwards... he heard a "crunch" and said "Oh well, its still good.." turned it on.. and POOF!! smokey Athlon.

Some people's kids..


Peace!

 

[MisterDuck]

2 cpu's (a duron and a thunderbird)
1 voodoo 3 3000
1 Abit MB (that hurt)

Unintentional hardware failures? Damn....it's been a lot. The aforementioned are the only ones where I was probably doing something I shouldn't have been doing, but....yeah.

 

[Jen]

for myself i killed two Geforce 1's by overclocking one and the other by high AGP speed. as far as processors i have killed one by overclocking it was my own fault on that one. i used a peltier and it got condensation . processor died of frostbite



Jen

 

[Rayden]

i fried my CPU once...
installed a joystick while it was running. one in a million chance and it killed it.
my dad thinks it was sabotage, i wanted a faster cpu so i destroyed it.

my dad also claims i destroyed a motherboard so we'd upgrade from the 550mhz cpu.
so now i have a P4 1.5 ghz.

 

[rickn]

Never killed a piece of hardware, exactly. I did manage to knock off one of them tall cynlidrical capacitors off my old Xentor TNT2 card, but I reattached it using two wires ..and it worked fine

 

[microAmp]

none here yet, thought I fried my old Slot A 750 but it works now....