Blew my third 1100T

How did you manage to do that? Poor contact with the HSF, did the dog eat it?

I've been assembling and oc'ing computers for almost fifteen years now and I've yet to lose even one cpu.
 
[H]ard Computer Building Failure of the Year award winner right there!
 
Yeah man share some details! I don't want to replicate your disaster! lol
 
You must have tons of money laying around. You remind me of this rich dude I know who bought a 980x, 12GB of memory, a 5870, and a $300 mobo...and hasn't yet put it together (it's been a year).
 
EuphoricRage470 said:
You must have tons of money laying around. You remind me of this rich dude I know who bought a 980x, 12GB of memory, a 5870, and a $300 mobo...and hasn't yet put it together (it's been a year).
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That's hilarious, by the time he puts it together mid range components will be just as good.
 
EuphoricRage470 said:
You must have tons of money laying around. You remind me of this rich dude I know who bought a 980x, 12GB of memory, a 5870, and a $300 mobo...and hasn't yet put it together (it's been a year).
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maybe he thought it was an investment...
 
LOL

With out details as to why you blew your third and same model CPU I would have to agree the forum consensus is.....

You are an idiot!

I'll take it back if you post some details haha
 
Wow so much angry posts

Funny how i'm not [H] for blowing up processors through overclocks
 
vraa said:
Wow so much angry posts

Funny how i'm not [H] for blowing up processors through overclocks
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You're definitely not. Doing something once and learning from it would be a different story. Doing the same thing over and over and constantly breaking things is careless and not very intelligent.
 
First off, CPUs are one of the hardest components to actually kill whether you are overclocking or not. I've run insane amounts of voltages through AMD and Intel CPUs, in fact enough to seriously damage motherboards (and sometimes have) and yet, I've never killed a CPU overclocking it.

With all the 1100T's you've bought, you could have bought a much faster Core i7 970 by now. :D
 
I went from a Athlon X2 to a Athlon II X3 to a Phenom II X2 to my current Phenom II X6 over the last 3 years.

I overclocked every single one of them the instant they were installed with voltages up to 1.6, speeds up to 4 gig and countless hours of Prime95. Not to mention countless hours of gaming. Even used the stock cooler on the first 2 Athlons. Never had any problems at all.

So yeah, Intel spanks AMD in terms of performance but Ill go to the mat with AMD procs on durability anyday.
 
vraa said:
And yet I bought another one

AMD forever!
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I just want to know how much Vcore kills an 1100T (I might get one someday). I have 1.65V on my X3/X4. Really the temps only dramatically go up if I unlock the 4th Core (20+/- degrees unlocking the core, but it's really fun to change a bios setting and bench programs you think will use the 4th core and really see which programs do and which don't to be sure)

Oh yeah what's the highest OC you have done with an 1100T where it could pass a benchmark like Vantage, Cinebench, Prime etc.?
 
MacLeod said:
I went from a Athlon X2 to a Athlon II X3 to a Phenom II X2 to my current Phenom II X6 over the last 3 years.

I overclocked every single one of them the instant they were installed with voltages up to 1.6, speeds up to 4 gig and countless hours of Prime95. Not to mention countless hours of gaming. Even used the stock cooler on the first 2 Athlons. Never had any problems at all.

So yeah, Intel spanks AMD in terms of performance but Ill go to the mat with AMD procs on durability anyday.
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I'll take Intel's processor durability over AMD's any day of the week. They are built better and are much harder to kill.

To put things into perspective:

I've been building machines for over 16 years now. I've done it professionally in addition to doing it for myself. I also upgrade a lot more than most. (Reference the CPU progression thread and look for my posts.) I've worked on literally thousands of computers in service centers and as an IT professional. I've seen far more Intel processor based machines than AMDs. Yet I've seen far more dead AMD CPUs. Typically when I see any CPU fail, it's typically due to power surges which killed the motherboard as well. Often the PSU is the culprit for killing them both. Or rather, the crappy PSU's inability to protect the rest of the system from damage due to surges, or bad regulation of their own power output is the problem. As a system builder, I've built probably hundreds of computers at this point. I've never, ever, seen a single DOA Intel processor. I've built everything from i386's to multiprocessor Xeon servers. I've never seen it happen. I can not say the same for AMD. Granted I've only seen one or two DOA AMD CPUs that were brand new, but that still amounts to an inferior track record of quality. That's not to say that the quality of AMD CPUs in unacceptable. Far from it. You've got to understand the numbers I'm talking about here. As for CPU deaths, again I've seen more AMD CPUs fail from cooling system failures, bad motherboards with poor voltage regulation (and often in concert with crappy PSUs) and I've seen a handful of AMD CPUs die from overclocking issues.

With Intel CPUs, I've never seen one fail due to a cooling system failure since they went to socket 370 processors. I had only seen a handful die prior to the implentation of thermal protection circuitry. I've never seen one fail due to bad overclocking. I've seen a few die due to power surges, bad motherboards and PSUs, and one or two that died of unknown causes. There is a video out there which I used to reference sometimes during the Pentium 4 / Athlon days. Toms Hardware tested catastrophic cooling system failure by removing the cooling from Pentium III, IV, and Athlon based systems. The Pentium III locked up but was undamaged. The Pentium IV throttled and continued to operate without cooling. Once the cooling was placed back on the CPU, it ramped the clocks back up and ran normally. The Athlon smoked reaching temperatures around 500F or higher. I've even had an issue of my own. At the time my machine then ran an EVGA X58 3X SLI Classified and a Core i7 920 D0. My systems are generally left operating 24/7. I left the house and didn't return for some 12 hours. My machine was still powered on and the EXOS 2.5 thermal alarm was blaring. I went upstairs to check it out. I hadn't hooked up the power switch cable that would have allowed the EXOS to shut the system down. My system's screens were blank and of course the machine was non-responsive. The EXOS wasn't making any noise, but clearly had power as it was alarming. I shut everything down and then waited, then turned the machine back on. The water pump appeared to have gone out (which I confirmed later). In the BIOS the CPU had reached excessive temperatures and I shut it down. I fixed the cooling system and the machine ran fine after that. My CPU did not die. It did what it was supposed to do to save the CPU.

I've also gone way over the suggested DIMM voltages overclocking Core i7's. I've pushed the voltages too high VCORE wise at times as well. Still I've never kiled an Intel CPU doing anything but shooting one with a firearm. Seriously, the damned things are damned near indestructible electronically speaking. I wouldn't hesitate to buy either CPU, and I've never killed even highly abused AMD CPUs either. Still the durability win goes to Intel. Everyone's mileage may vary, but few people abuse as many of these things as I do either professionally, or personally.
 
Dan_D said:
There is a video out there which I used to reference sometimes during the Pentium 4 / Athlon days. Toms Hardware tested catastrophic cooling system failure by removing the cooling from Pentium III, IV, and Athlon based systems. The Pentium III locked up but was undamaged. The Pentium IV throttled and continued to operate without cooling. Once the cooling was placed back on the CPU, it ramped the clocks back up and ran normally. The Athlon smoked reaching temperatures around 500F or higher.
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Haha, I remember that video :D.
 
The Pentium 4 needed that, though.... :p

Otherwise, there would be no logical reason to chose an Intel setup at the time, other than if you wanted an Intel mobo.
 
Dan_D said:
First off, CPUs are one of the hardest components to actually kill whether you are overclocking or not. I've run insane amounts of voltages through AMD and Intel CPUs, in fact enough to seriously damage motherboards (and sometimes have) and yet, I've never killed a CPU overclocking it.

With all the 1100T's you've bought, you could have bought a much faster Core i7 970 by now. :D
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I also have a 2600k

To a point, the fanboyism doesn't matter, it's about having fun and blowing up cores

But clearly I am doing it wrong, so I'll shut up now
 
Dan_D said:
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Hard to argue with that.

You guys are swaying me over to the Intel side of the force one thread at a time. Hopefully Bulldozer comes out before I finally convert. May be too late. Have caught myself browsing the Z68 motherboards at Newegg a couple times lately. :D
 
If you have blown three 1100T's, does that mean you are a cheap date? Did you keep pumping them faster and faster with each step of voltage until they finally popped and spewed their white hot silicon all over your face? Did you at least film the money shots? Come on man...us enthusiasts want our hardware porn. Don't be such a tease, we want details.
 
MacLeod said:
Hard to argue with that.

You guys are swaying me over to the Intel side of the force one thread at a time. Hopefully Bulldozer comes out before I finally convert. May be too late. Have caught myself browsing the Z68 motherboards at Newegg a couple times lately. :D
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I left AMD almost 3 years ago. It was so hard to resist C2d and C2Q . And now the i5-i7 line-up. Are you kidding me? These things are amazing chips.

I loved my years with AMD in the late 90s till mid 2000s, but Intel has blown things away for what they have been doing the last 5-6 years.

Come to the DARK side....... comeeeeeeeeeee....
 
Just get a new motherboard and power supply. Notice I didnt say or...

For real something is not right with power delivery from one of those two components.

I take back the Idiot comment earlier because that was truly in good fun. But really the proicessor is the hardest thing to smoke.... now exposed GPU processors good lord you even breathe on one and buh bye!
 
Only thing I have blown was a xbox mobo that I dropped the power supply on. :eek:
 
Still rather have an Intel LGA cpu. I have never bent the pins on one. Different story with amd (and intel)'s regular ZIF socket.
 
pug71 said:
I left AMD almost 3 years ago. It was so hard to resist C2d and C2Q . And now the i5-i7 line-up. Are you kidding me? These things are amazing chips.

I loved my years with AMD in the late 90s till mid 2000s, but Intel has blown things away for what they have been doing the last 5-6 years.

Come to the DARK side....... comeeeeeeeeeee....
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I think the reason I stay with them is a few years ago when I was a broke ass gamer, AMD was giving me very good processors for $50 and then quad cores for $100 and below so I feel like I owe them it something. LOL.

Now that I've got my finances heading back in a positive direction, performance is now more important than simple value and with Intel just getting better and better while AMD remains virtually stagnant, for the last couple years at least, plus the constant delays and silent treatment with Bulldozer, it is looking more and more like a time to move on.
 
Bbq said:
Still rather have an Intel LGA cpu. I have never bent the pins on one. Different story with amd (and intel)'s regular ZIF socket.
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Nor I. I've never even bent pins in the motherboard socket either. As far as I'm concerned, LGA sockets are absolutely the way to go.
 
He doesn't even compare to kyle's record with t-birds.


but you are all too young to even remember that!
 
MacLeod said:
Hard to argue with that.

You guys are swaying me over to the Intel side of the force one thread at a time. Hopefully Bulldozer comes out before I finally convert. May be too late. Have caught myself browsing the Z68 motherboards at Newegg a couple times lately. :D
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Join us! I myself am an AMD "expat". Went from a T-bird 1100, to a 2300+, to an Athlon 6000+, and of course now I'm rocking the intel in my sig. I still want to see AMD bring a kick-ass CPU to the market, and even now am a huge Radeon fan, but intel is the only way to go for CPU performance. The numbers dont lie. Even my non-SB i5 just plain smokes, runs cool, overclocks like mad, and is rock solid.
 
Harry1969 said:
That's hilarious, by the time he puts it together mid range components will be just as good.
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A 'midrange' 2500K with a HD 6870 and 8GB of DDR3 is almost as good gaming, and has been for the better part of a year already.
 
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