what have you broken in the pursuit for higher clock speeds

SeraphX

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figuring this is an overclocking forum and most users have non standard systems
i though it'd be interesting to hear from the prolific clockers out there
what they've broken over the years in search for higher clock speeds and more power
so anything from cpu's mobo's ram, gfx, psu's

whats cost you the most, and what breakage did you most regret happening,
was a breakage something you almost saw coming and thought ' pffft' or do ya just take every breakage in your stride and move on
 
Never broken anything. I had a graphics card die quite early which may or may not have been down to overclocking, but who knows...
 
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I frazzled a brand new Athlon XP 2800 once by rushing and fitting the cooler the wrong way in the socket... Socket A coolers had a 'step' that had to sit into the frame of the socket and mine was the wrong way round so the hsf wasn't in contact with the cpu core... it went up in a puff of smoke... luckilly [a competitor] was stupid enough to take it back as a DOA lol
 
A motherboard or two, maybe. Hard to tell sometimes...

My best mate from college stood on an Athlon FX chip once when we were putting his machine together. This is when the FX chips were eye wateringly expensive. The etailer took it back as damaged in transit so all was well, only a few tears on that one. Actual tears :)
 
1 motherboard and 1 graphics card (which was 2nd hand anyway), never damaged a CPU or memory stick even with high overclocks even with some 4+ year stints :)
 
never damaged anything overclocking - most hardware that I have had to RMA has been defective on arrival

I tend to clock and then forget about it rather than tweak. My q6600 has been at 3.6 for ages although I ran it no probs at 3.9 when I first watercooled it, I didn't like the temps too much.
 
Nothing yet through attempting overclocks, thankfully. :) Did wonder if my graphics card was going to speak to me again after taking it completely apart and cleaning it. Had one or two moments of corruption but all has been well ever since.
 
Not directly due to overclocking but it was in persuit of higher clocks. I killed a motherboard when a BIOS flash went wrong:(
 
Crushed the core on a Thoroughbred AXP, that was eye wateringly annoying. Screwing down each corner, little more, <tink>. FFFFFFUUUUUUUU---

Only other components I've killed are two HDDs in a box on the back of a moped, and a near miss with a coolant leak on an old Astek Thermochill W/C setup that nearly took out my trusty 9800 Pro.
 
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