MY COMPUTER CAUGHT FIRE!!!

[billyjak]

I thought this was a joke, No wonder pricess on motherboards don't come down.
If you even think AMD is at fault you have a severe problem not accepting resposibility for your own actions.
I would suggest you see a counselor.
Go get an Intel motherboard and processor, then when you fry that, who will you blame.
You are absolutely right, Intel is better, so go get one.
It dosen't matter which one you get, may I suggest the cheapest one you can find as you'll probably fry that too.
Maybe you can then call Intel and have it replaced after you fry it.
Get for real and accept what you did as stupid, and have a Laugh and get over it.

 

[Jeff7]

So I quickly poured the water onto the motherboard and CPU. They are both ruined and I am trying to get a refund.

You hit the switch destroying the processor. You poured the water on the mobo and CPU. Conclusion: YOU runied YOUR stuff and you should be the one to pay for your mistakes. Only the government is allowed to make others pay for its mistakes.


Best DDR solution? The KT266A seems to be a very good DDR solution. I'm not sure which ones have USB 2.0 though. I've had good experiences with Epox boards.


Oh yes, you call us AMD Zealots. Why would we recommend Dell systems then? They don't use AMD at all.


I think that a system should be plugged in while being worked on - that way it is grounded. However, you too should be grounded - that way no charge differentials could form.


AMD takes blame as well for not caring for its overclockers.

You know how much of AMD's market consists of overclockers? Maybe 1% or so? It's a pretty insignificant market for them to invesnt extensive research in.

 

[BD231]

Damn dude, that really sucks!. Water and computer parts just dont mix

 

[Adul]

ok I have to repost this here. My brother registered just for you. But the reply was in your other thread.



<<

Alright to start off I had to sign up on the forums just to comment on this guy. He's a real winner.

Let's first start off that I never knew someone could top themselves several times over in stupidity on the same thread. I mean that takes some real talent.

I mean why would you throw water on a electronic appliance anyways? If your cpu is on fire you snuff it out with a towel or something, but I don't need to be telling you this since you're "DocSmarts" you already know that fire needs oxygen to burn.

I mean what the hell? Why don't you just use peanut butter as a thermal compound for your CPU and Heatsink. While you're at it why don't you just shove your Athlon XP into the floppy drive; cause you know that if you put things in the floppy drive they reach the RMA people 100 times faster and you'll have your new Athlon XP within 20 seconds. Then when you get your CPU just throw every appliance that is more complex then a pencil sharpener out the window cause you don't wanna throw water on them when you set them on fire either; don't forget to run your head into the wall also.

You are the epidemy of moronic stupidity, you should not be using a computer and having the name on DocSmarts isn't to bright either. I mean, are you purposely trying to tell everyone you're a moron by posting this in every single thread? Why don't you just wear a sign that says, "I'm a moron I don't know how to RTFM."

Last but not least don't bother replying. I'm sure you will just post some kind of moronic response that will further make you look like a jackass.

-Firelion out V-A-B
>>

 

[Slawsk]

Yeah, this whole thing is a bunch of bullshit. Yeah, it's AMD's fault that you spilled water over your plugged in mobo. Why would spilling water over your mobo be AMD's fault. And what, Intel has some sort of water-protection shield that goes over anything that it touches, therefore stopping the water from causing your system to friggin fry?? Dude, get a life. You had your "thrill." Whose father would ever ask for a 8kha+ with watercooling. Not mine. He wouldn't care bout o/cing. Oh, wait, your dad wants to load his outlook 5/6 of a second faster.

 

[x86]

<< You know how much of AMD's market consists of overclockers? Maybe 1% or so? It's a pretty insignificant market for them to invesnt extensive research in. >>



100% bullshit. Try 75+%. Practically everybody that uses these forums are OCers. Think about it for a sec, how the hell can it ONLY be 1% if 95% of the people here are OCers, and 60% use AMD. That 60% is probably 80% of AMD's total revenue.

Think before you type.

 

[ColdFlare]

<< Ok, first of all, it is just plain stupid to be making that kind of modification without unplugging your computer. Secondly, this was entirely human error, so a refund seems unlikely. As for the matter of turning to Intel, if you haven't learned anything from this and expect you'll be making more similar mistake later on, yes, Intel chips do have a throttling mechanism that'll keep it from overburning if there is too much heat. This is the first time I've heard of human error being the reason to choose one proccor over another. However, if you do have a water cooling kid, I would suggest the i845-D chipset with DDR SDRAM and overclocking a Northwood to near 3 GHz. >>



clock throttling isnt entirely safe without a heatsink, or fan, a p4 running for a period time will burn, i've seen pics of the pins melting the socket, so anyway clock throttling doesnt save you from burning processors, so anyway, i do agree that any modification you do to your computer you must have!!! must have the power plug off, my comp sometimes turns on when i plug in a USB device..!!

 

[Adul]

<<

<< You know how much of AMD's market consists of overclockers? Maybe 1% or so? It's a pretty insignificant market for them to invesnt extensive research in. >>



100% bullshit. Try 75+%. Practically everybody that uses these forums are OCers. Think about it for a sec, how the hell can it ONLY be 1% if 95% of the people here are OCers, and 60% use AMD. That 60% is probably 80% of AMD's total revenue.
>>



you truly are clueless. Where the hell did you pull those numbers from? Oh wait same place you pulled the rest of this crap out.

Hello AMD has 20% marketshare. No way in hell overclockers make a significant number of cpu's sold. You sir are truly a fool. Please do us a favor and shut up.



<<
Think before you type. >>



You should heed your own advice.

 

[Adul]

I should follow this former sig of someone here




<< Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experiece. >>

 

[MisterNi]

Can't we all just get along?

 

[pillage2001]

<<

<< You know how much of AMD's market consists of overclockers? Maybe 1% or so? It's a pretty insignificant market for them to invesnt extensive research in. >>



100% bullshit. Try 75+%. Practically everybody that uses these forums are OCers. Think about it for a sec, how the hell can it ONLY be 1% if 95% of the people here are OCers, and 60% use AMD. That 60% is probably 80% of AMD's total revenue.

Think before you type. >>



You're a bigger retard than I thought. Anantech forums consist of a mere MINORITY of all the computer users in the world. There are much more AMD users outside. The numbers may not be 1% but it's definitely 75% that overclocks. I've got tons of friends that do not overclock their AMD and they're happy with it.

 

[JBChance]

<<< You know how much of AMD's market consists of overclockers? Maybe 1% or so? It's a pretty
insignificant market for them to invesnt extensive research in. >>



100% bullshit. Try 75+%. Practically everybody that uses these forums are OCers. Think about it for a sec,
how the hell can it ONLY be 1% if 95% of the people here are OCers, and 60% use AMD. That 60% is
probably 80% of AMD's total revenue.

Think before you type. >>


WTF are you talking about?

The AMD users on this board buy a small percentage of the AMD cpu's sold worldwide.

Get a clue.

The only thing on you that "smarts" is your head when you try to reason.

 

[pillage2001]

<< I should follow this former sig of someone here




<< Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experiece. >>

>>




WOpz, I just did.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

adul:

<BBWFooey> adul
<BBWFooey> you around?
<BBWFooey> dammit
<BBWFooey> dammit
<BBWFooey> i totally forgot what i was gonna ask adul
<BBWFooey> he's on AT but not irc
<BBWFooey> doesnt matter much now :/
<adullzzz> omg this moron is trully trully
<adullzzz> there
<adullzzz> is no words to describe it
<BBWFooey> adul
<BBWFooey> that moron w/ the computer that set on fire?
<BBWFooey> yeah..


and i still dont remember wtf i was gonna say :/

 

[Slawsk]

look at his system rigs...

 

[JellyBaby]

<< 100% bullshit. Try 75+%. Practically everybody that uses these forums are OCers. Think about it for a sec, how the hell can it ONLY be 1% if 95% of the people here are OCers, and 60% use AMD. That 60% is probably 80% of AMD's total revenue. >>

A math whiz, too. Astounding.

 

[FirelionGivesHamAway]

DocSmarts, did you not read what I posted the last time? Shut up. You're a disgrace to all men using computers. You know a few techincal terms and make up your own jargon, but overall you're a complete moron with the whit and common sense of a dirty sliding glass door.

I urge you not to post anymore, ignorace is not a desired and respected trait. In short [Go run into a wall for the second time you moron.]

 

[FirelionGivesHamAway]

Anyone want some ham?
Reiterating...

<< Alright to start off I had to sign up on the forums just to comment on this guy. He's a real winner.

Let's first start off that I never knew someone could top themselves several times over in stupidity on the same thread. I mean that takes some real talent.

I mean why would you throw water on a electronic appliance anyways? If your cpu is on fire you snuff it out with a towel or something, but I don't need to be telling you this since you're "DocSmarts" you already know that fire needs oxygen to burn.

I mean what the hell? Why don't you just use peanut butter as a thermal compound for your CPU and Heatsink. While you're at it why don't you just shove your Athlon XP into the floppy drive; cause you know that if you put things in the floppy drive they reach the RMA people 100 times faster and you'll have your new Athlon XP within 20 seconds. Then when you get your CPU just throw every appliance that is more complex then a pencil sharpener out the window cause you don't wanna throw water on them when you set them on fire either; don't forget to run your head into the wall also.

You are the epidemy of moronic stupidity, you should not be using a computer and having the name on DocSmarts isn't to bright either. I mean, are you purposely trying to tell everyone you're a moron by posting this in every single thread? Why don't you just wear a sign that says, "I'm a moron I don't know how to RTFM."

Last but not least don't bother replying. I'm sure you will just post some kind of moronic response that will further make you look like a jackass.

-Firelion out V-A-B >>

 

[pillage2001]

AAAHAHAHAHA......take a look at his rig.....AAAHAHAHa

8.9 Mbps Up & 300 Kbps Down <--------AhAhaHA
Segate Fireball 30.0 GB @ 5400 RPMS <------- Since when did Seagate did a fireball??

 

[scoobydooby]

I just wanted to say thanks to all who posted in this thread. It was a real hoot! Particularly Adul's brother for going out of his way to register!


<< Think before you type. >>


Were you thinking when you typed that one hotshot?
Scoob

 

[x86]

<<

<<

<< You know how much of AMD's market consists of overclockers? Maybe 1% or so? It's a pretty insignificant market for them to invesnt extensive research in. >>



100% bullshit. Try 75+%. Practically everybody that uses these forums are OCers. Think about it for a sec, how the hell can it ONLY be 1% if 95% of the people here are OCers, and 60% use AMD. That 60% is probably 80% of AMD's total revenue.
>>



you truly are clueless. Where the hell did you pull those numbers from? Oh wait same place you pulled the rest of this crap out.

Hello AMD has 20% marketshare. No way in hell overclockers make a significant number of cpu's sold. You sir are truly a fool. Please do us a favor and shut up. >>



Hold on here, I didn't say that AMD had any more/less than 20%. I am ESTIMATING that 60% of all people in these forums are using AMD. Then I ESTIMATED that since that anandtech is a big society of computer users, that the people here using AMD consist of 80% of their total revenue.

Do us a favor, look before you leap. In other words stop accusing me of things that I didn't say.

 

[Adul]

OMGhahahahaahahahha!!!

Look at his system rigs.

http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=15239


Buhahahahhaa

 

[Jeff7]

100% bullshit. Try 75+%. Practically everybody that uses these forums are OCers. Think about it for a sec, how the hell can it ONLY be 1% if 95% of the people here are OCers, and 60% use AMD. That 60% is probably 80% of AMD's total revenue.

Think before you type.


Let's see, there are what, 80,000 members registered here? How many are active as opposed to "lurkers?" Chops off some. How many are overclockers? A decent percentage. So maybe then 40,000 people. Think before I type? Your post seems to assume that AMD's entire market is here at Anandtech. If that were so, AMD would be dead many times over. If overclocking were so important, don't you think that there'd be a lot more mainstream ads boasting overclocking features? Wouldn't there be a lot more features to make overclocking easy? Intel, who you praise for their thermal protection, has consistently tried to STOP the overclockers by hardwiring the multiplier in their CPU's. AMD has at least made it possible to do unlock their processors.


There, took 5 minutes to get this POS cable modem to actually post. :|

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<<

<<

<<

<< You know how much of AMD's market consists of overclockers? Maybe 1% or so? It's a pretty insignificant market for them to invesnt extensive research in. >>



100% bullshit. Try 75+%. Practically everybody that uses these forums are OCers. Think about it for a sec, how the hell can it ONLY be 1% if 95% of the people here are OCers, and 60% use AMD. That 60% is probably 80% of AMD's total revenue.
>>



you truly are clueless. Where the hell did you pull those numbers from? Oh wait same place you pulled the rest of this crap out.

Hello AMD has 20% marketshare. No way in hell overclockers make a significant number of cpu's sold. You sir are truly a fool. Please do us a favor and shut up. >>



Hold on here, I didn't say that AMD had any more/less than 20%. I am ESTIMATING that 60% of all people in these forums are using AMD. Then I ESTIMATED that since that anandtech is a big society of computer users, that the people here using AMD consist of 80% of their total revenue.

Do us a favor, look before you leap. In other words stop accusing me of things that I didn't say. >>


thats quite an estimate..how do you get 80% from less than ONE percent????

you really amaze me

 

[x86]

<<

<<

<< You know how much of AMD's market consists of overclockers? Maybe 1% or so? It's a pretty insignificant market for them to invesnt extensive research in. >>



100% bullshit. Try 75+%. Practically everybody that uses these forums are OCers. Think about it for a sec, how the hell can it ONLY be 1% if 95% of the people here are OCers, and 60% use AMD. That 60% is probably 80% of AMD's total revenue.

Think before you type. >>



You're a bigger retard than I thought. Anantech forums consist of a mere MINORITY of all the computer users in the world. There are much more AMD users outside. The numbers may not be 1% but it's definitely 75% that overclocks. I've got tons of friends that do not overclock their AMD and they're happy with it. >>



You and I would agree that AMD has a bigger presence in the enthusiasts market than retail, therefore I allotted 20% of AMD systems sold for Joe Six pack buying AMD at Compusa. Joe Six pack doesn't know how to OC so that would be 100%-20% = 80%. Out of the enthusiasts, as you said, some do not overclock so that would be probably 5%, 80%-5%=75%. I think my estimations are correct.

Before you insult people, look at the matter logically.