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Who has damaged/broken a CPU from overclocking?

Never damaged anything through overclocking, although I fried two AMD Athlon chips by switching them between two very different (but still Socket A) motherboards back in my noob days. Needless to say they haven't worked since.

I'm running my E4300 with a 66% increased clock, and have been for 3 years now. If the chip's degraded, it's not noticeable.

Hopefully, by the time you've shortened the life of the chip enough to actually affect you (if that's even possible) you'll be getting an upgrade anyway. (I, for instance, am after a new CPU unless I can squeeze an extra GHz from my OC. I think a 95% OC might be pushing it :p).

And Lol @ fake video.
 
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Big.Wayne said:
There must be a reason some people are still scared to overclock? I'm not sure what it is though? :cool:
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I tend to avoid going over the stock voltages so I have a quiet system more than anything. Got my i5 at 3ghz on 1v at the moment; it's plenty fast for me, and the highest I've ever seen the temps is 59 under full load with Prime95...it's nice and quiet :)

That said I do have the odd evening of overclocking fun where I just see how far I can push it...always revert back to the quieter option though.
 
Never burnt out a CPU, i have burnt out about 16+ sticks of RAM and old GFX cards. And i blown caps on motherboards due to voltage. O and i have melted motherboards(i say melted i have C shape motherboards.) lol

I would like to see what actually happens to a CPU visually when it gets to hot. i personally have my E8400 at 3.6Ghz atm but doens't go over 45C with load. so i wonder wot wud happen if i took it to lets say 90C for as long as possible, do u reckon the PCV would start to melt?
 
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