Post your fried CPU stories!

[brainhulk]

So that we may all benefit from your loss. Post relevent info
about equipment, voltages, and time to cpu failure.

philosopher George Santayana: "Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

 

[stevty2889]

I was trying to do a BESL mod on an LGA775 CPU. Since the pins are on the motherboard rather than the CPU, it wasn't quite as simple. I attempted to solder a wire on to the correct pads on the CPU. Even when I managed to get the wire soldered, the BESL mod didn't work anyway..so I kept trying. Eventually one of the pads pretty much melted off..my brand new(at the time) pentium-D 920 dual core, became a single core with no hyperthreading. At least I didn't kill the entire chip, and it's still running as a single core today. Other than that, I have never managed to kill one of my CPU's.

 

[jswjimmy]

athlon xp 1700+ tbread-b oced to 2.7ghz 2vcore with a volcano 12. fried after benchmarks. we got the cpu for free at my school and i had just upgraded to a opteron 165 so we decided to have some fun with it. hehehe there was a bit of smoke that day, i think we ended up removing the heat sink after a crash. fun time fun times.

ive never fried anything by accident yet though, and i overclock everything i own.

i still have a 1800+ JIUHB around my room somewhere that was stable at 2.5ghz, but im going to use that one in a NAS project soon.

 

[PCTC2]

i once put an old P1 into batter and deep fried it...

 

[Spikesoldier]

i have never had a spectacular cpu failure happen to me yet.

 

[o1die]

Used a duron heatsink on a barton core which overheated, and it popped 2 or 3 internal leads, resulting in a sempron with 256 cache.

 

[aigomorla]

lol.. well its not really a frying..

But i once tried to get smart and hack the IHS off an Opty 165.

My razor slipped and i hacked off 2 resistors off it.


It was a very very sad day because that opty did 2.8ghz

Oh wellz, gave me an excuse to get another Opty 175 which spanked the 165. 3.02ghz on that opty.


Lesson to learn. Make sure u know exactly where your hacking off when you try to get smart with an IHS.

 

[nyker96]

I love those stories but it looks like nowadays with heat diods it's hard to fry the cpus. only the older stuff you hear will get fried

let's see a story on X2s and C2Ds please!

 

[ShawnD1]

I overclocked my 120MHz Pentium to something like 140. It didn't melt or burn, but it sure as hell didn't work after I changed it back. It is a mystery.

 

[fk49]

Back in the day when tuning FSB was done on physical motherboard switches instead of in the BIOS, I turned up the FSB for a Cyrix x86 from 100mhz to 133mhz and it ran fine for a while. One night, it got too hot and the thermal glue holding that little heatsink onto the chip fell right off (there were no brackets). The computer was never quite the same since.. =(

Lessons:
1. Cyrix is a crappy overlocker, couldn't even hold 33%
2. Don't run a CPU, overclocked or otherwise, without a heatsink
3. God bless whoever invented brackets for heatsinks instead of thermal glue

 

[clickynext]

Didn't fry any, but while I was trying to clean an old thunderbird using a razor blade, I accidentally chipped the surface of the die. But interestingly enough, it worked just fine after that.

 

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by: clickynext
Didn't fry any, but while I was trying to clean an old thunderbird using a razor blade, I accidentally chipped the surface of the die. But interestingly enough, it worked just fine after that.

You know a $3 bottle of alcohol is enough to clean like 20 processors, right?

 

[Toadster]

one time i ran my Pentium 166 w/MMX at 233Mhz without the fan attached, and I went to put the fan on top and when I pulled the CPU out of the socket I got a nice waffle-shaped burn in my palm from the heatsink burning my hand

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Originally posted by: Toadster
one time i ran my Pentium 166 w/MMX at 233Mhz without the fan attached, and I went to put the fan on top and when I pulled the CPU out of the socket I got a nice waffle-shaped burn in my palm from the heatsink burning my hand

You are not allowed to breed . . . ever. I think Darwin would agree with me on this one.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: ShawnD1

Originally posted by: clickynext
Didn't fry any, but while I was trying to clean an old thunderbird using a razor blade, I accidentally chipped the surface of the die. But interestingly enough, it worked just fine after that.

You know a $1 bottle of alcohol is enough to clean like 250 processors, right?

Corrected that for you.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I tried doing a Tualatin mod on a slotket in my Abit BX6-2 board. I accidentally (by means of both additional wiring, and the jumpers on the slotket) fried my mobo's VRMs. I apparently managed to cross VCC and GND. Not good. The CPU got quite warm in a short period of time, but survived just the same.

(So perhaps this story doesn't qualify for this thread, since the CPU survived.)

 

[johnnyjohnson]

I once overclocked a 300Mhz G3 (yes, that's a Mac) to just over 400Mhz. That's an extreme overclock for that chip. Ran happily for over a year until one day it refused to work. Transferred the chip to another computer to test it and confirmed the chip was dead. No doubt the overclocking did it. That experience still doesn't stop me from overclocking as high as I can.

 

[Toadster]

Originally posted by: Dazed and Confused

Originally posted by: Toadster
one time i ran my Pentium 166 w/MMX at 233Mhz without the fan attached, and I went to put the fan on top and when I pulled the CPU out of the socket I got a nice waffle-shaped burn in my palm from the heatsink burning my hand

You are not allowed to breed . . . ever. I think Darwin would agree with me on this one.

LOL - thanks... I think