When overclocking goes bad

Uriel · 22 Jul 2008 at 18:59

A warning to us all:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2326202,00.asp

I'm glancing nervously at the PC I'm typing this on, feeling a lot better for backing up my MSc thesis in two seperate locations this morning...

Reality|Bites · 23 Jul 2008 at 17:15

It's an MSI motherboard, Nothing else need be said lol

Mul · 23 Jul 2008 at 17:22

I had this happen to me on a not so horrific scale three times on my DFI ICFX3200, every time when pushing an overclock ever so slightly too far or bad RAM.

Phil2008 · 23 Jul 2008 at 17:25

Also a few yrs back I think it was a msi board that caught fire,, it was on this forum. Anyone remember that?

Happy · 23 Jul 2008 at 18:07

Phil2008 said:
Also a few yrs back I think it was a msi board that caught fire,, it was on this forum. Anyone remember that?

Uriel · 23 Jul 2008 at 20:10

And as if to be ironic, my PC has chucked a couple of BSODs and reboots my way in the last couple of days. I think it's just the warm weather but I've put everything at stock and increased the speed of my case fans to be on the safe side.

Computer tinkering to resume once my Thesis is handed in.