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How Many cpus you killed from over clocking?

I've cracked a Duron by screwing the hsf too tightly, but I've yet to fry a CPU.
 
i killed 2 transistors on my opteron 148 removing the heatspreader and she still did 3.4ghz under the phase.

still going strong too.
 
well i blew up a voltage regulator on my msi k8n neo-4 from overclocking a amd 4400x2 at 1.75v at 3.3ghz :rolleyes:

the 4400x2 worked fine after aswell lol
 
just had a check on ebay, and have seen cpu's suitable for my mobo going for stupidly cheap. Am thinking about getting one just to practice overclocking with. If i overclock, is the cpu the only thing im likely to damage, or can i also damage the mobo/ram as well?
 
I have overclocked lots of CPUs. i.e. over 10 years worth, And none have died from it. I don;t believe it is possible to kill it from overclocking. Unless yout voltmod the mobo and be reckless. (which I have also done and not killed the CPU. :P )
 
daztrouk said:
just had a check on ebay, and have seen cpu's suitable for my mobo going for stupidly cheap. Am thinking about getting one just to practice overclocking with. If i overclock, is the cpu the only thing im likely to damage, or can i also damage the mobo/ram as well?
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Ram is more prone to failure than cpu's when overvolting imo.
 
I have clocked all of my cpus starting with a PIII 500 (fastest cpu available at the time!) currently running 3 x mobile XP cpus in NF7-S motherboards. All have been fine apart from one of the mobiles that seemed to overheat for no apparent reason. Swopped it for another from ebay and away we go again.

PeterT
 
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