Originally posted by: John
Even though it's winter and roughly 40-50F outside I keep the temp. in my home around 75F. Why would anyone set the temp to 90F?
Why else do you think that AMD CPU packaging is always a nice "green" color.Originally posted by: Slash
An how does the cpu smoke um what I mean is it placed in a pipe then you smoke it or is it like rolled somehow or what? Flavor of the month athlonxp 2500 I just call it brain fried
Originally posted by: bfonnes
my roommate turned the heat up to 90 deg in our apartment and smoked my CPU!!!!! There were black marks on the bottom of the heatsink. That can't be a good sign... Anyone here have similar experiences? Probably not, because my roommate must be one of the stupidest people alive. Of course, I never say that to him, but he better replace it.
BFonnes
edit: I suppose I should make this relevant to some kind of issue. Ambient temps matter! lol
Originally posted by: LeadFrog
Originally posted by: deathkoba
U is overclocking 2 da hilt son. Y ya gotta be trippin ova yo roomate. Is yo fault foo!
Stop talking like that. It is getting old.
Originally posted by: Sc4freak
Maybe he means 90C
Originally posted by: bob4432
Originally posted by: Sc4freak
Maybe he means 90C
i hope you are joking, 90C=194F
Originally posted by: meltdown75
the trend of extreme OCing with crappy cooling is disturbing but is nonetheless rampant. sorry to hear about your mishap!
i'll take my 2700 at stock speeds for the life of the component, rather than a 10% performance boost that reduces the life 50%...
Originally posted by: Tiamat
Originally posted by: meltdown75
the trend of extreme OCing with crappy cooling is disturbing but is nonetheless rampant. sorry to hear about your mishap!
i'll take my 2700 at stock speeds for the life of the component, rather than a 10% performance boost that reduces the life 50%...
Perhaps, but 50% of 8 years is 4 years, and I know that quite a few of these people including myself, are not planning to be running on an AXP for 4 years. Ive had my 1800+ @ 2.2ghz for about a year and I know that by end of next year, broken or not, im getting onto the A64 train.
Originally posted by: meltdown75
I was just trying to make a point, but, anyway. I should have known my comments would be picked apart.
U is overclocking 2 da hilt son. Y ya gotta be trippin ova yo roomate. Is yo fault foo!
Originally posted by: shadow369
That goes to show that if you don't know what your doing then you should stick to quality products like an Intel Processor that is impossible to fry without putting it directly in the frying pan.....
My guess is your heat sink wasn't on properly. And AMD's will smoke easily, on a MB or in some papers...
What they saidOriginally posted by: invalidiuser
Originally posted by: Naustica
Sounds like user error to me rather than roommate error. No way your roommate is responsible.
Definately agree.
Also, if that was the case then no one can turn their computer on in the summer time if they have no air conditioner and their house is 100 degrees inside. They will not be able to use their computer for the whole summer.
Originally posted by: shadow369
He's out a CPU, with a P4 he could of fixed the issue and rebooted.
"Ewww, the cream got burnt"
Originally posted by: bfonnes
my roommate turned the heat up to 90 deg in our apartment and smoked my CPU!!!!! There were black marks on the bottom of the heatsink. That can't be a good sign... Anyone here have similar experiences? Probably not, because my roommate must be one of the stupidest people alive. Of course, I never say that to him, but he better replace it.
BFonnes
edit: I suppose I should make this relevant to some kind of issue. Ambient temps matter! lol