Possible to blow up your pc? I mean explode!

[marc512]

My friend said to me he was overclocking his pc and he said a few transistors on his motherboard did blow up and his processor was smokeing badly.

Is this possible? he said he supplied his processor with 7V.....................................7? is that even possible.

 

[marc512]

Only time my PC has actually "exploded" was when my CD drive blew up. Lucky I wasn't near it as it sprayed components and CD shrapnel across my room, destroyed my poor Project IGI game

spontaneously exploding dvd drive? iv never heard that before!

 

[marc512]

if the guys an idiot to put 7V on the CPU he doesnt deserve the right of owning a computer.

Some caps probably went pop and he thought hed tell a tall tail.

lol i agree his pc is fairly new and i dont understand why he would try a thing like that. I argued with him that processors dont run as high as that and he continued to say they ran at 10v..i think the most iv seen in a cpu was 1.8V. but 7 pff.

 

[marc512]

Yeah just a few caps went pop i suspect, and yes ive also been a victim of the exploding cd drive, cost me my mdk2 disc

why do cd drives explode? i thought they where quite safe but after starting this thread its changed my opinion..should i wear knights armour when useing my drive? its pretty old