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hi, is the only way to blow up cpu when ocing upping voltage too much? or can it be blown up if i choose a silly fsb or multiplyier?
blowing up cpu
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Well, you can't rule anything out, but I've been overclocking S775 Intel CPUs since they first came out about 3 years ago, and you really can't damage them, unless you're using a hammer.
If you over-volt them, they over-heat. If they over-heat, they throttle, then they shut down. If you over-do the FSB or multiplier, they usually just don't boot, and the worst case is you have to move a jumper inside the PC. That's when the mistakes happen - you knock a capacitor or something because the moron designer has put the CMOS reset under the graphics card.
I'm sure that you could hook up a power supply in some way shape or form and feed 12V into a 1.5V part or something, but in the socket, with a PC around about it, Intel have done a fairly bullet-proof job of protecting their part of the PC infrastructure.
Now RAM, don't over-volt that or it will die on you!
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rofflll XDXD ty that helped
so bullet proof now i wont panic when the comp wont boot after i tryied overclocking 
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rofflll XDXD ty that helped
I wouldnt say bullet proof. I told my mate exactly the same and he managed to fry his Q6600.
I think it was more a fan issue but still, i wouldnt call it bullet proof.
He did get a new one from intel though. So it wasnt that bad.
I think you'll find my original post does say fairly bullet proof.
If you start the PC up with no heatsink or fan at all on the PC, it will run for a couple of seconds then just shut down. If he did that repeatedly, then maybe he might have damaged it, but it's very unlikely he wouldn't have spotted something odd going on.
Yes, they seem very keen to get damaged CPUs back, so they can bullet-proof them some more.
