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killed a cpu?

killed cpu?

  • yes

    Votes: 159 47.2%

  • no

    Votes: 178 52.8%
  • Total voters
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(cf)Eclipse

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if so, vote yes, and tell us about it.
if not, obviously vote no :p


i killed a 3700+ newark.. one of the very first of em too, if not THE first, to be used by an enthusiast. i chipped the corner of the core when installing a waterblock, never worked again after that :(
 
Killed a K62/266 with a peltier wayy back when. Left it on running linux overnight by accident and condensation had its way with it.
 
killed a celeron 700 by keeping the HSF on it while it was lying on the floor in my closet :p
 
Killed a barton 2500+. Not sure how it died, but when I turned it on one time after shipping it across the country, it started smoking and had the black dot underneath the core on the flip side. No worries though. Replaced it with a 3000+ Venice :).
 
I killed a P-4 because it was becoming the do stupid things to it rig and i oc'd it with toothpaste thermal goo and the stock HSF :D

Damn intel wont even hold 45C :eek:
 
best [486] said:
I killed a P-4 because it was becoming the do stupid things to it rig and i oc'd it with toothpaste thermal goo and the stock HSF :D

Damn intel wont even hold 45C :eek:
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Yea...I heard Colgate makes some good toothpaste thermal goo. I heard the spearmint had the best results FYI :D
 
i killed an athlon 2200+. replaced the hsf on it, totally missed the blue stickEr with the giant, 'REMOVE BEFORE INSTALLING' on it. hit the power button...got about 2 seconds of life out of the machine, then smelled smoke. pulled the cpu out, noticed the scorch mark on the back side...made myself a new keychain :D

edit: stickEr, not stick :(
 
killed a Athlon T-bird 1.2 ghz, had a heavy heatsink and chipped the core till it died
 
baldrik said:
i killed an athlon 2200+. replaced the hsf on it, totally missed the blue stick with the giant, 'REMOVE BEFORE INSTALLING' on it. hit the power button...got about 2 seconds of life out of the machine, then smelled smoke. pulled the cpu out, noticed the scorch mark on the back side...made myself a new keychain :D
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*puts hand over eyes*
 
First chip I overclocked which was a 800mhz amd. My friend told me I could run things higher. So I got a 100mhz overclock. This is with the crappy stock hs. Anyways, I thought 100mhz, why not 500? yeah... :(
 
...now a "How many paperweights have you made of $300 and up video cards" would be a totally different story for me :eek:
 
It's almost always the stupid things that kill a proc. Chipping the old unlidded core with a HSF or dropping it, forgetting to take off the tape on the HSF, not twisting the HSF with removal and ripping the proc out of the socket or inadequite cooling and extreme overclocks. I'm happy to report that in 8 years of overclocking and computer building I have never killed a proc. Not even my old 2500+ Barton that I throughly abused with voltage. I have killed plenty of other things though. Video cards, Ram, Motherboards, hard drives, etc.

Although on the video card front there were some seriously reliability issues with the high end cards. Speciphically the geforce3 I has 3 of them cause the ram would keep wonking out and I didn't even OC the last 2.....I think they're the only cards that ever died on me when they were still considered current, fast and expensive
 
baldrik said:
i killed an athlon 2200+. replaced the hsf on it, totally missed the blue stickEr with the giant, 'REMOVE BEFORE INSTALLING' on it. hit the power button...got about 2 seconds of life out of the machine, then smelled smoke. pulled the cpu out, noticed the scorch mark on the back side...made myself a new keychain :D

edit: stickEr, not stick :(
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i actually had a bud with a dell bought system with the blue tape still attached to it, thing worked for months with it, when it finally overheated i bring it in and notice it there... calling dell the guy was like, well oh i think you have replaced the heatsink with something other than stock... i replied back to the bastard that fine u wanna see it yourself ill ship it to your manager and see what he has to say about this... after that dell tech support has been great for me years after :p
 
-Killed a 400a OCing it.
-Stepped on a K6-3
-Smashed a pile, one at a time with a hammer, of Cyrix 5x86's because......well they were Cyrix 5x86's.
 
I fried the 1st PC that I ever built. It was a dual AMD 1.2 Palinmino's. I took the heat sink off the 2nd processor and turned it on. LOL.. What a newb. That was about 8 years ago.
 
never popped a chip.i knew a kid that blew this whole gateway system messing with the bios.

only chip i killed was an intel .found an old machine,took the memory,CPU and HD and tossed the case.

the memory and HD found a way into my sister's machine.........the HD died just a few months back and replaced with a 10gig.

i drilled the old intel chip and made it into a keychain,but during the move i lost it.
 
had a slot-a Athlon 700Mhz i was running at 900Mhz and a fan died and fryed the FPU JUST the FPU
took me a week to find that out too it was funny it would boot windows fine but as soon as some thing tryed to use the FPU it would hard lock
 
Let's see:

Openened a P4 478 CPU from Intel's oh so wonderful plastic clamshell, chip flew into the air and landed pin side down. Intel was gracious enough to give us a replacement due to our volume orders.

Put a heatsink on a T-Bird 900 but failed to notice the lip was sitting on the edge of the socket, cooked the T-Bird.

Tried to remove a heatsink from a P4 pre-Northwood core that used the wonderful OEM heatsink thermal paste/industrial cement, split the heat spreader off the pcb and cracked the pcb of the chip.

Built a system with a P3 1Ghz Coppermine, heatsink fan failed during burn-in, chip still posted and ran but wasn't stable enough to be released.

Mind you, this was in the course of 5 years.
 
Spectre said:
-Smashed a pile, one at a time with a hammer, of Cyrix 5x86's because......well they were Cyrix 5x86's.
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ROFLMAO!! I love the mods at [H]! Sadly, I used to run a Cyrix 6x86 but had to underclock it to a 66Mhz bus 'cause the mobo I had didn't have a working PCI clock lock and my video card didn't like a 37.5Mhz PCI bus.
 
Enjoicube said:
Rick james, in 1997.98 1GHz processors didn't exist, heck 500 MHz was fast for that time
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I was just about to post that. IIRC the Palomino core was introduced in 2001.
 
The_Mage18 said:
ROFLMAO!! I love the mods at [H]! Sadly, I used to run a Cyrix 6x86 but had to underclock it to a 66Mhz bus 'cause the mobo I had didn't have a working PCI clock lock and my video card didn't like a 37.5Mhz PCI bus.
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Ahh the pain of the crippled deaf mute that was the Cyrix family :p
 
Enjoicube said:
Rick james, in 1997.98 1GHz processors didn't exist, heck 500 MHz was fast for that time
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well stock any way there was a place caled Cryo-tech that sold a 1Ghz K6-2 and later a 1Ghz Athlon slot-a
 
I killed a PIII slot 1 processor. Mainboard I used had a bad VRM, was pumping 3.4v into it. :( I turned it on, booted, heard a POP, and then it crashed. :(

I killed a Pentium processor. We hooked it up to AC current and turned it into a heat plate.

I've also killed many PII's, turned a few into keychains. :)

Palomino was introduced in 1999, IIRC. They were used in some Durons as well as Socket A. :)
 
Fried my P4 550 presflop about three months ago. Put in the car drove about 45 miles turned it on tried to boot windows BSOD huh thats wierd tried again. This time it didnt even make it to the windows load screen restarted again hit the bios checked the temp it was running at 120 C :eek: and then it shut down never to work again. But intel replaced it. I should get a mobo for it some day(bent the pins on the mobo taking the chip out :( I need a space heater for my room :D )
 
Nah, However...I'm 15 right now, and back when I was a little nooblet (like 11) and first experimenting with overclocking, I turned the voltage on this intel celeron box I had way way way up, and for some reason when I turned the computer back on (after it crashed), the entire houses power turned off for like 3 seconds :eek:
 
I've never "killed" a processor. I did however euthanize of a POS T-Bird... the thing never ran stable no matter what machine I put it in.

After I had given up on it and it had sat on my shelf for about a year I decided it would maybe make a nice gift for some kid in the future. I double-bagged it and burried it in a can in my back yard. We've since moved from that house, so one of you might find a nice T-Bird buried in your back yard if you search around! (I won't tell you where we lived) ;)
 
call me chowchewchee the merciless :)

celeron 333 - it was shit and slow so i coated it in epoxy resin and made a sort of deformed paperweight out of it, it's even got bits of bark and debris stuck to it from me performing the procedure outdoors - it rocks

amd k6-2 450 (i think) - it sucked too so i thought "i wonder what the chip would look like after being crushed repeatedly by a hammer". i discovered that the answer is a bit of whitish mashed silicon and some metal bits.

p3 667 - stopped working altogether for some reason so it required "re-education". this one got coated in lighter fluid and set alight. flammable fun.

p4 2.0a - sadly my ineptitude led to this one's demise, i tried volt modding it and fried it. good waste of money that one

*the celeron and k6 were destroyed about a couple of years ago, so their usefulness was long outlived.
 
I crunched a 800mhz duron, had a shim on it, shim slipped, cracked core, never used a shim on a socket A processor again and never had a problem.
 
chowchewchee said:
call me chowchewchee the merciless :)

celeron 333 - it was shit and slow so i coated it in epoxy resin and made a sort of deformed paperweight out of it, it's even got bits of bark and debris stuck to it from me performing the procedure outdoors - it rocks

amd k6-2 450 (i think) - it sucked too so i thought "i wonder what the chip would look like after being crushed repeatedly by a hammer". i discovered that the answer is a bit of whitish mashed silicon and some metal bits.

p3 667 - stopped working altogether for some reason so it required "re-education". this one got coated in lighter fluid and set alight. flammable fun.

p4 2.0a - sadly my ineptitude led to this one's demise, i tried volt modding it and fried it. good waste of money that one

*the celeron and k6 were destroyed about a couple of years ago, so their usefulness was long outlived.
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"re-education" hahaha I love it. Great choice of words!

Unfortunately I've never destroyed any of my CPU's...this thread makes me want to try though
:D
 
I don't know if this counts or not but mine was really stupid. Playing games and surfing the web during a lightning storm with no surge protector on the wife's rig. I "lost" two boxes, my gaming rig now referred to as lightning boy, my wife's Gateway netmule which received a permanently attached NIC and 56K modem as well as a bunch of missing board components now referred to as the "welded" box, and the company laptop connected to the Lan. In addition to "God" telling me it was time to upgrade both boxes, he also told me I needed a new cable modem, a new Linksys cable/DSL router (sounded like a baby rattle and had a funny smell to it after that), 4 cable boxes, 2 TV's, a microwavce oven, everything in the house that used a wallwart transformer including the house's alarm system and the electronic timer to the washing machine. DOH!
 
GP40X said:
I don't know if this counts or not but mine was really stupid. Playing games and surfing the web during a lightning storm with no surge protector on the wife's rig. I "lost" two boxes, my gaming rig now referred to as lightning boy, my wife's Gateway netmule which received a permanently attached NIC and 56K modem as well as a bunch of missing board components now referred to as the "welded" box, and the company laptop connected to the Lan. In addition to "God" telling me it was time to upgrade both boxes, he also told me I needed a new cable modem, a new Linksys cable/DSL router (sounded like a baby rattle and had a funny smell to it after that), 4 cable boxes, 2 TV's, a microwavce oven, everything in the house that used a wallwart transformer including the house's alarm system and the electronic timer to the washing machine. DOH!
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i've only not killed like 4 or 5 processors... my p133 and p200, as well as my current opteron and my x2, and my venice 3000+@2.8... and a p4 2.2 i have in a spare box... otherwise, i've killed them all, and that # is probly close to if not over 20.
 
lets put it in simple terms


NEVER put your pc on the shelf below the 75 Gallon Fish tank :D



13" oscars love to splash around :D
 
I was prying open this Athlon 500MHz cartridge with a screwdriver, and bam, I slipped and pried off a resistor from the circuit board. :(
 
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