my roommate turned the heat up to 90 deg and smoked my CPU!!!!!

[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?

 

[Falloutboy]

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?

who knows I keep my heat on "low" just warm enough to keep me from freezing.. this with my computers keeps my bedroom around 65 which is about perfect. if my living room gets cold my neighbor has a stack of wood to burn that he says I can use.

 

[VirtualLarry]

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

Why else do you think that AMD CPU packaging is always a nice "green" color.

 

[NesuD]

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

No the relevant issue is you should admit your a tard. Please! any correctly installed and functioning cooling unit shouldn't have any trouble managing a 90 degree ambient room temp. Either something failed (fan?) or you didn't have something installed correctly. Your attempt to put the blame on your roomie and scam a new cpu out of him are pathetic. You really should learn what the hell you are doing if you are going to overclock so you can avoid making a fool out of yourself in these forums.

 

[Insidious]

:beer:

LMAO

:beer:

 

[CraigRT]

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.

yeah why is he talking like that anyways?

 

[bob4432]

a buddy of mine has a computer outside, in AZ in the desert and although it is not overclocked, the outside temp in AZ gets to 115 quite often and no problems. it is operator error on your part. you should have been checking your cpu/case temps and kept it free from dust...

 

[Sc4freak]

Maybe he means 90C

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Sc4freak
Maybe he means 90C

i hope you are joking, 90C=194F

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: Sc4freak
Maybe he means 90C

i hope you are joking, 90C=194F

Probably not, I mean, it IS a few degrees short of boiling. Maybe he just likes the room to be scorchingly hot. Then you can open a window, and the two drastically different air temperatures, and thus refractive indicies, will create a psychadelic experience, all without drugs.
Of course, then you get the fumes from the smoking computer, which just adds to the whole thing.

 

[Tiamat]

Make sure your mobo is ok, then take a trip to www.excaliberpc.com and buy yourself a lovely AXP 2400+ mobile for 105$.

I doubt your roommate was at fault. Make sure your psu wasnt the culprit.

 

[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%...

 

[PingSpike]

That 50% mark is a bit of an exaggeration...and regardless, CPUs have an expected lifetime of 10years. What CPU have you ever used for 10 years? However, that doesn't mean you should be careless with your overclocking. You are in fact running a component out of spec and should take steps to alleviate the extra heat created.

 

[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.

 

[Jeff7]

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.

Those who overclock are generally also those who upgrade frequently. Most PC users don't really know what a CPU is (most point to the tower and say "CPU" or "hard drive" and leave it at that), much less know what speed it runs at, or how to change it. They are the kind who keep a PC for 10 years or more. Overclockers aren't likely to keep their processor for much more than two years, if even just one year.

 

[meltdown75]

I was just trying to make a point, but, anyway. I should have known my comments would be picked apart.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
I was just trying to make a point, but, anyway. I should have known my comments would be picked apart.

Well, this is a board with a lot of PC enthusiasts, and a decent number of successful overclockers. Guess it's a matter of opinion though. My dad doesn't want anything to do with overclocking. He's another one who thinks that it'll kill his processor right away. Of course, he's not very computer literate, and overclocking is just one more thing that might go wrong. I on the other hand, like a technical challenge. Squeezing a lot of performance out of a CPU without killing it is something I like doing.

 

[dragonballgtz]

U is overclocking 2 da hilt son. Y ya gotta be trippin ova yo roomate. Is yo fault foo!

LOL! :laugh:

 

[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...

 

[Falloutboy]

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...

the same intel who is getting creamed by the A64....right

 

[shadow369]

The question here is "Stabilizing a system to withstand unforseen abuse". I you cant properly cool or put together a system then don't buy cheaper parts. He's out a CPU, with a P4 he could of fixed the issue and rebooted.

"Ewww, the cream got burnt"

 

[Blain]

Originally 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.

What they said

 

[Waylay00]

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"

Lol, if any processor is fried, it won't work....not just AMD's

 

[Fern]

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

Well, at the risk of getting flamed to no end I'll agree the ambient temp swing could have caused the cpu to overheat. The rig in my sig sits in a room with no AC. IMHO A large swing in ambient temps can and does have a major impact on cpu temps. And my experience indicates that the swing in ambient temps does not scale in a linear fashion with cpu temps. In other words, a small increase in ambient temps seems to cause a much larger swing in my CPU temps.

But doesn't your mobo have a cpu overheat/shut down feature? When this has happened to me, I come home to the ole two-tone siren, no damage done. When this has happened, I was runing Prime95. Was your pc idling or running some app?

Prolly better do some more checking too. What if the mobo or PSU went out taking the cpu with it?

 

[Mo0o]

Man what was your temps before? My room in college has gotten pretty hot and ive never had a problem