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Who has damaged/broken a CPU from overclocking?

The day before I received my components for my current pc, I fried my XP athlon 2000+. At least, I think I did. I couldn't get a POST, just fans spinning, nothing on screen. Probably didn't do it any good replacing the stock heatsink the wrong way round. :eek: One day I'll check it out and find out for sure.
 
I'm very surprised I have not killed anything (yet!) e2180 @ 3.6ghz with the OEM cooler was a good attempt.....
 
Never. Been doing it years and most of my old CPUs go to friends / family and they are all still working fine. I should know because its me they will come to to fix em :)
 
Big.Wayne said:
We have all heard stories about how overclocking can *DESTROY* your hardware, Melt or Degrade your CPU etc but it's never happened to me yet (touch wood)...
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I tend to think such stories are mostly rubbish. I've been overclocking for over 15 years and never killed anything. This has included a P60 at 66, P150 at 187, Celeron 300A at 464, Thunderbird 1GHz at 1.4, P4 2.8 at 3.2, E4300 1.8 at 3.2 and E2160 1.8 at 3.2.

RAM, motherboards, video cards have all been overclocked without problems. I kept each of those systems for at least 2 years...

My rule of thumb, if it's stable it's FINE.
 
have had my 5000+ BE on extreme volts... high speeds and it's still working fine in other machine... cooled by zalman 9500... that might of helped x] that was when i started overclocking..
 
gurusan said:
being sarcastic? :confused:
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A little, but I think something may give.... I have a Foxconn X38A which is a b*tch to overclock the only way I can get to 4GHz is by running my ram at 1780MHz not sure if the mobo will handle it though!

Getting back to the thread, I did once fry a graphics card (I forget what it was) I remember it had 4MB and 2 slots to install extra memory by pushing new chips in.. In my inebriated haste I put the chips in the wrong way round and when I fired her back up was met with the unmistakeable smell of burning PCB
 
I retarded an early P4 Northwood under my first phase change box .....not terribly high volts but it got to the point where it wouldn't even stay stable at 500mhz :) SNDS was very real.

But generally i find it very hard to kill a chip and i've had loads.
 
I fried a duron many, many years ago, but that was more the fact i hadn't put the heatsink back on properly after applying some more thermal paste having done a slight OC. When I turned the tower the right way up the HS came away from the cpu and a few minutes later it gave up the ghost and would not boot again.

Tried it on another pc and was definately toast.
 
Merlin5 said:
The day before I received my components for my current pc, I fried my XP athlon 2000+. At least, I think I did. I couldn't get a POST, just fans spinning, nothing on screen. Probably didn't do it any good replacing the stock heatsink the wrong way round. :eek: One day I'll check it out and find out for sure.
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sounds like ur mobo was grounded, maybe one of the screws or something. my moneys on it not being fried :)

haven't broke anything as significant as a cpu myself 'yet'!! hopefuly it will stay that way.
 
I fried an old intel pentium 2, not because I was overclocking, but because I tried to run it passively cooled in a case with no fans except the PSU fan. It worked for a while, but one day it was just too much for it and it just refused to post.
 
never killed any thing, but thought I had once when I was messing with some dives and shorted one out on the case , blue flash and a pop, then every thing whent quite lol.
put it in properly and hit the power button and every thing came back to life even the drive that shorted out lol.
lesson dont take short cuts
 
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