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What is the most expensive hardware you fried?

Until I managed to fix it with a vMem=3.3v mod, a 9700TX (which is a custom Dell card a hair below the 9700). This was back in the day when the 9800PRO was king, and a vMem mod had ripped the leg off the voltage regulation circuitry, but I managed to fix it by soldering a wire from the sense point to the 3.3v line on my PSU.
 
Nothing that was specifically my fault, but I had a cheap piece of crap PSU back in the day that took out three Socket 370 motherboards...
 
I bought a refurbed ti4680 (that was WICKED for about 1 week.) fried and took the mobo with it. It was a sad, sad day.
 
oh boy...i fried an athlon 600 with too much voltage...a tnt2 with too much speed on the core without sufficient cooling...i killed a 512mb pc2100 stick trying to push 3v through it...it didnt like it 😉

o yeah somehow i killed a mobo with a p166 overclocking it...didnt kill the chip just the board 😕
 
Most expensive? Gigabyte GA-8KNXP motherboard, got it replaced under warranty. Never told me what was wrong with it.

Most expensive after inflation? Quantum hard drive. This was a hardcore workhorse, then one day it stopped working. Tried formatting, switching channels, controllers, add-on cards, nothing worked. Sold it to a friend, works to this day. Go figure.

Most costly? IBM Deskstar GXP75, self explanatory. I lost a lot of porn that day. Oh and some wallpapers and my old website. And the pr0n.

Most stressful? 2x Maxtor + 1 IBM hd that my old power supply killed about 10 months ago and 3 months ago and 3 weeks ago. Technically the drives are fine, but the filesystems got corrupted. I lost way more porn this time, but I had some backed up. When I finally found the culprit, I kicked that power supply to the curb.

Most strange? A Highpoint 360 onboard ATA controller. Really fried, but the rest of the motherboard worked fine. Suspected cause was an ATA cable with a hole in it. Everytime I think of it, I get the urge to put a heatsink on my Southbridge/ATA chip.
 
Improper heatsink installation on an Athlon 900 - roasted itself. <-This was probably the most expensive screwup for me, at least that I can remember.

And I had an overclocked Tbird 1GHz, at 1.4GHz, on a really cheap generic power supply. Ran a CPU stress test, and a resistor in the power supply popped, and singed the circuit board underneath it.
 
hmmm 3 brand new Audigy platnuims, will testing a dodgey motherboard..in the end it was the PCI slot of the old asus tusi-m that was the problem..after it had smoked 3 audigy's..lucky the boss didn't find out I just did some creative RMAing to make them dissapear😀
 
Had a Cyrix 6x86-PR200+ melt down on me.

That was eons ago but back then most of us could only afford a single computer in the house, so it caused quite a bit of financial issues for me.
 
Fried that was my own fault - two $160 GeForce2 GTS Pro's, learned the hard way how NOT to replace the HSFs on them

Fried that was due to a very faulty PSU - ~$800 in parts, motherboard, ram, vid card, hd, floppy, cdrom, sound card, ram
 
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