Anyone had a componant completely fail because it was overclocked? A while ago I had a 9800se softmodded to pro and one day the RAM on it just decided to die, now whether this was a result of the softmod I don't know... Has anyone had anything like that but that was deffinately the result of overclocking?
Anyone ever had overclocking related failures?
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MY Herc 3d Prophet 4500 (Kyro 2) eventually started to suffer from extended running highly overvolted and clocked to 200mhz... it still works fine, no corruption, but the 2D output is getting progressively fuzzier with time (a big shame, its fantastic 2D IQ is one reason it still gets used!) - fuzzyness directly related to temperature...
I had the same card, the Hercules version with the same soft-mod. Watched afilm on my pc sunday night, turned it off, then the next morning i had no picture at all. Tried my old MX400 to see if it was the GFX and it indeed was.
In your case i wouldnt have thought the soft-mod would have caused it as it only opened up the pixel pipelines (from 4-8).
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Yes but as the people that go out of there way to OC there system will generaly upgrade there parts a lot more often than 2-3 years it's seen as a nil point.
It's like if you know a CPU would last 10 years at stock but only 5 years at a 50% overclock, it realy would'nt bother you as chances are your not going to have it past 1-2 years anyway.
But to the question, I have never had any parts die as a result of an overclock. I have blew a few generic PSU's that were running OC systems but they most likely blew because they were under £10 from the local comp shop.
It's like if you know a CPU would last 10 years at stock but only 5 years at a 50% overclock, it realy would'nt bother you as chances are your not going to have it past 1-2 years anyway.
But to the question, I have never had any parts die as a result of an overclock. I have blew a few generic PSU's that were running OC systems but they most likely blew because they were under £10 from the local comp shop.
Out of spec PCI bus?
Overclocking related... Just one or two.
Lets see now:
1) Killed THE best GF2 ULTRA you had ever seen, clocked to the other side of the moon and back, and had me in the no1 spot on 3Dmark2000 for a few weeks. I then proceeded to re-do some of my volt-mods with easier access pots and blew it up
2) ASUS A7V-133R. Volt-Modded the vDIMM on this board, in the process managed to fry all the fan headders (god knows how), and the RAM I had in the board
3) Radeon 9500NP. One of the first batch and modded to 9700PRO like a trooper. Gave it a Socket-A heatsink, and some of the largest RAM sinks in the world, then proceeded to kill it with a peltier \o/
4) Radeon 9800PRO. Modded to 9800XT (see my biggest thread ever!). Had this one in my P4 2.8HT machine. Processor was under a Vapochill PE, unbeknown to me the insulation was starting to come away from the socket. Condensation dripped down to the AGP port and took out the port and the card
5) abit IP35-PRO. FSB pin modding my E2160, got a bit ham fisted when applying the strands of copper to the CPU socket and bent a few pins
So yeah, I've had a few, and probably forgotten a few, but I'm sure I'll have more yet!
Lets see now:
1) Killed THE best GF2 ULTRA you had ever seen, clocked to the other side of the moon and back, and had me in the no1 spot on 3Dmark2000 for a few weeks. I then proceeded to re-do some of my volt-mods with easier access pots and blew it up
2) ASUS A7V-133R. Volt-Modded the vDIMM on this board, in the process managed to fry all the fan headders (god knows how), and the RAM I had in the board
3) Radeon 9500NP. One of the first batch and modded to 9700PRO like a trooper. Gave it a Socket-A heatsink, and some of the largest RAM sinks in the world, then proceeded to kill it with a peltier \o/
4) Radeon 9800PRO. Modded to 9800XT (see my biggest thread ever!). Had this one in my P4 2.8HT machine. Processor was under a Vapochill PE, unbeknown to me the insulation was starting to come away from the socket. Condensation dripped down to the AGP port and took out the port and the card
5) abit IP35-PRO. FSB pin modding my E2160, got a bit ham fisted when applying the strands of copper to the CPU socket and bent a few pins
So yeah, I've had a few, and probably forgotten a few, but I'm sure I'll have more yet!
I think I killed a P4 1.6A by running it overvolted at 2.6ghz for a while. No harm done though as by the time it died the 1.6A had been discontinued so I got sent a 1.8A to replace it 
Also had a Cyrix PR200+ which bit the bullet through a combination of a failed cpu fan and being overclocked (Cyrix weren't famed for their cool operation in those days...)
Also had a Cyrix PR200+ which bit the bullet through a combination of a failed cpu fan and being overclocked (Cyrix weren't famed for their cool operation in those days...)
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I have killed my socket 939 althon 3500+ and asus a8n sli motherboard by overclocking they just died.