What parts have you destroyed through overclocking?

[Bobthelost]

It looks like i've killed my shiny new 4400X2. I'm pretty sure it was because of the overvolt, despite all advice i'd pushed it up to 1.5V and the rest is as they say is history. It's possible that it would have died anyway, but overclocking certainly didn't help it.

So i'm looking for other stories of woe, what parts have you destroyed through your need for speed?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I,ve been overclocking since the early 90's, and have never killed anything yet. I currently have two A64's that have been running over a year with 1.55v, and an old 1.4 tbird running 1.75v for 5+ years. I would think its very unlikely that 1.5v killed your X2

More info?

 

[theMan]

none, i think, so far. i have lost some data, but i got it back after a long annoying process.

 

[Bobthelost]

It wasn't temps, it was running at 52*C at peak system load. Think i just had a bad chip that was helped to an early grave by overclocking.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

How do you know its dead? Have you tested it in another rig? Tested the mobo, PS, etc...?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

OCing, as far as speeds, nothing. Going extreme on stuff, a few hard drives, lots of graphics and lots of mp3z.

 

[Bobthelost]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
How do you know its dead? Have you tested it in another rig? Tested the mobo, PS, etc...?

I don't know what's going on with it to be honest, for some reason it's done a lazarus on me.

Now all i have to do is work out WTF caused it to start bugging out on me.

 

[VERTIGGO]

So far only my RAID0 stripe. That was an accidental PCI bus lock in the bios! The SATA RAID controller failed and lost the stripe.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

What are your system specs?

What are the symptoms? What happens when you power on?

 

[Bobthelost]

There's another thread on it, but the short version is that the second core was running as if it was under 80% load according to all my motherboard monitoring software and TM said that there was about 2% CPU load in total. It was also running very sluggishly in RTW. I've reset the BIOS to the factory settings and it's working fine now, i've put the OC back up to 2.5Ghz @ 1.45V and it's running a stress test at the moment.

Think i'll just leave it there this time

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Bobthelost
What parts have you destroyed through overclocking?

Absolutely None.
I don't OC like a maniac and always make sure my cooling is in order.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Motherboard was damaged when my generic PSU went BOOM while overclocking. (Going to have a new S-12 430 Seasonic by Friday )

 

[Mrvile]

I did break a 6800GT once.

 

[CuriousMike]

None.
Celeron 300a -> 450
P3 550 ->800
Athlon XP1700->XP2000
Athlon XP2400->XP2600
Athlon MP2500->XP3200
Voodoo2 -> ?
Voodoo3 -> ?
Radeon 9700 -> ?
Radeon9800 -> ?
?'s = something useful.

Nothing has ever broke from overclocking.

 

[rbV5]

I've never really damaged a component overclocking. I used to scatter the BIOS propgramming on my A7N8X Deluxe on occasion, but I believe that board has BIOS issues.