What hardware did you killed?

[TiN]

:D Fun thread here

I know, you extreme guys nailed trucks of high-end hardware :D
And this usually goes behind the scene. Novice ppl think that getting WR on CPU is just pick CPU, bring it to LN2 and viola, WR. Only those who tried know the true, that sometimes it took 10 motherboards down to get WR.

Post here most funniest cases of that, please!
As always, I will make first input here :D

Total list of my dead stuff

DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra-D, nForce4 Ultra, crappy chipset /replaced NF4SLI chip from ABIT AN8-SLI Fatality mb*
DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra-D, nForce4 Ultra, Dead, crappy chipset
DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra-D, dead CPU FET, then disassembled for parts.
Gigabyte 7S748, SiS 748 chipset, Socket A, water flow on it, dead socket
MSI KM133 Pro5 , to repair
Soltek on nForce2 Ultra, Socket A, Bios got broken
EPoX 8KTA3+, Socket A, Got dead due Chrome ORB vibration
ASUS Maximus III Formula (shity foxconn cpu socket), still working a bit))
AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 "SanDiego" , ADAFX57DAA5BN, for JTAG labs
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ "Venice" @ 3.15GHz , ADA3000DAA4BP, +12Vcore burn.
AMD Duron 1800 "Applebred" @ 2.5GHz, Core damages
AMD Duron 1600 "Applebred" @ 2.25GHz, Core damages
AMD Duron 800 "Spitfire" @ 980Mhz, Core damages
AMD Duron 750 "Spitfire" @ 1GHz, Core damages
Intel Celeron 667 @ 1.3Ghz , Core damages
Intel Xeon 3470 (shitty ASUS M3F with foxconn) still working but damaged
Intel 440BX mATX mobo, PWM Cntrlr burned out
Intel i865 mobo, shorted curcuit due screw under back of board in case
2x128MB DDR Noname sticks, due the internal damages of PCB's caused by high temp (>300C)
MSI GeForce2 MX 32MB SDR, unknown death.
MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 MS8870, 128MB Samsung 4.0ns, Dead on 8th water flow on it
MSI GeForce 6600GT NX6600GT-TD128E, 128MB Samsung 2.0ns, Dead due GPU damages.
CD-RW NEC NR7700A, 12x10x32x, due LG CD-R ! Hate LG
CD-RW LG 32x12x40x, worst drive in the world. _SPECIALLY_ Killed with pleasure. Hate LG.
Few Samsung CD-ROM's. I hate Samsung.
Pack of fans 80,92,120mm sizes.
74GB WD Raptor GD, dead heads
80GB Seagate ST380021A, 7200RPM, 2MB cache, PATA-100
10GB Seagate, PSU with reversed +12V and +5V lines (sick!)
500GB Seagate, bad sectors
6GB Fujitsu, the same PSU
4GB Seagate, still the same PSU, Damn. At least find out reveses Pack of Codegen's PSU. Trash.
Round 120mm CCFL for fan

X800GTO, after hardcore chilled extreme session with 720MHz GPU it was

http://www.xdevs.com/oc/purekill/x800gto.jpg

GeForce4 Ti4200. Forgot it on heater. Remember about card only when entire room begin smell badly. WTF, I thought.. OMG, videocard! :eek::D It costed $250 that days.

http://www.xdevs.com/oc/purekill/ti4200.jpg

One of four DFI's LP NF4. This was with hardware programming interface to S939 cpu, few ES thingys on it. Cracked chipset.

http://www.xdevs.com/oc/purekill/dfi.jpg

Gigabyte on SA socket. HATED it really. KILLed by purpose.

http://www.xdevs.com/oc/purekill/sa1.jpg

Frozen and hammered!

http://www.xdevs.com/oc/purekill/sa2.jpg

CPU craked due overpressure by cooling :D

http://www.xdevs.com/oc/purekill/duron.jpg

220V on CPU is bit too much :D

http://www.xdevs.com/oc/purekill/athlon.jpg

[knopflerbruce]

Lmao, that's just too funny:rofl: Good to see I'm not the only one who starts laughing instead of crying when HW dies:D

You should check out this thread, too: http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=175

HW I've killed...

**Mobos**

DFI NF3 250GB
3x DFI NF4 Venus
5x DFI NF4 Expert
DFI 790FXB-M2RSH
Biostar TPower i45
Semi-dead: DFI NF590 and another DFI NF3 250GB

**GPUs**

x1550
6800le
6800xt
6800 vanilla
7600gs AGP
7900gt
7900gtx
8800gtx
+ about a dozen AGP cards I can't find

**CPUs**

3100+ Sempron
3100+ mobile
3200+ Newcastle
3200+ Venice
3x 3500+ Venice
3800+ Venice
3x 4000+ San Diego
4000+ Clawhammer
LE1640
x2 3800+ Manchester
2x x2 4000+ (Brisbane + Windsor)
x2 4800+ Brisbane
Opteron 144
Opteron 185
Phenom 9600B

**RAM**

512mb Fatbody
512mb TCCD
512mb BH5 (tried to remove heatspreader with a one-cent Euro coin - broke off the only chip on the damn PCB :p )
4x 256mb BH5/CH5/BH6

I KNOW I've killed more than this, but I can't remember everything:D

[Oj0]

Hey TiN, I remember the JTAG programming :D

DFI NForce 4 Ultra-D - this board still works after being baked several times, one working DIMM slot, one working PCIe 16, other works at x4, no PCI/LAN/sound/SATA/IDE. It has spent in the region of 7000 hours subzero and at least ten hours sub zero without any insulation so it lasted me well

DFI CFX3200-DR - man I'm sad to lose this board. Corrupt BIOS meaning I can't change anything even after a flash, desperately need a new BIOS chip preflashed

Countless AthlonXPs = meh, those cores are delicate!!!!

TCCD 256MB x2 - didn't appreciate 3.7v even though it scaled well up to 3.5v and ran at that for several hours. Did DDR700 before dying ;)

Gigabyte motherboards x at least four - all dead IDE controllers, all socket 370

Pentium 166MMX - failed to correctly apply 5v rail to CPU

Inno3D GeForce 6600GT - ran it without a heatsink while doing a BIOS flash before mounting a pot to it (didn't feel like mounting if it might not work), flame from some tiny IC scortched PSU cables ~12"/30cm above it

Vapochill LS - knocked the head and sprung a leak at the unit end of the suction hose

D9GMH 1GBx2 - http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=417271 I say no more

Athlon64 X2 6000+ - voltage damaged and can no longer do 4GHz

Althon 3000+ - killed removing the heatspreader

CH-5 256MBx2 - Memtested at 4v

I think that's it other than the usual hard drives dying

[Thijs]

not even 1% of what most guys killed here but:

2x Asus rampage extreme ( nothing weird here )
ATI 4670 ( just died on me :( )
8800GTX ( 1.6V load was to much for the pwm :( )

[K404]

Easiest way to sum this up for me:

"All nVidia live in fear when K404 is here"

[Gomeler]

I stopped keeping track as it became too depressing. Lately I've been lucky though, I think I've killed 1 motherboard and 1 GPU in ~12 months of light benching.

[Brian y.]

I stopped keeping track as it became too depressing. Lately I've been lucky though, I think I've killed 1 motherboard and 1 GPU in ~12 months of light benching.umm.........I'm pretty sure your leaving out some other hw deaths that you were responsible for in the last oh say two months or so.......:rolleyes:

[Gomeler]

umm.........I'm pretty sure your leaving out some other hw deaths that you were responsible for in the last oh say two months or so.......:rolleyes:

I don't count hardware that you fail to mention has already been maimed :parghh:

[Oj0]

Easiest way to sum this up for me:

"All nVidia live in fear when K404 is here"

Yeah, well done on delaying Fermi :headshake: :rofl:

I forgot to add three HD2900XTs that died for unknown reasons. I'm GUESSING it's because I had a separate PSU for them which was sending current through the six and eight pin connectors even while they were 'off'.

[K404]

Take that to the news sites, give the community a laugh :D

"Now that Fermi is in production, nVidia are willing to be a bit more open about the reasons behind the delays, now that they are resolved to the point of having a sellable chip. Its become clear that a Glasgow-based overclocker........"

[Punx223]

wow.... ummm


i havent actually killed alot...

a 4870

E8400

GTX 260

E6600

celeron 775 who the hell knows what model number.


much much more.... but hell i dont remember.... i think I have ADD :rofl:

[Deanzo]

These are in the last two years.

Zippy G1 600W PSU RIP
I was about to prep my board for a dry ice run, as always I used an anti-static strap, I always attatch it to the back grill on my power supply with the power supply turned off at the wall, but plugged in so I am earthed. This time in my haste to get set up I did two fatal mistakes, first was to have it turned on at the wall and at the power supply itself, second was to clip it on with too much of the clasp inside the power supply. As I was holding the cord about to put it on my arm, the clasp inside the unit touched one of big silver heatsinks. And I suppose you could say it arched, made a loud pop and one hell of a spark!
This was the last time I used a anti-static strap, those things can kill!

Gigabyte 9800GX2 Vid Card RIP
Not much of a story to go along with this, as I'm still not 100% sure what went wrong.
Though, I had volt modded the card, flashed the bios, added heatsinks, mounted a LN2 pot, running it at -90 and was pushing the volts untill OVP would kick it.
But I'm sure that had nothing to do with it :D

Gigabyte EP45T Extreme Motherboard RIP
Had a really bad bios flash, not even the back up bios chip works now. Dead board.

MSI P45D3 Platinum Motherboard RIP
Running the GPU on LN2, ice at the bottom of the card was melting into the PCI-e slot and filled it with water, soon after that it was a dead board.

Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2 X 1GB Sticks RIP
All I can say is 2.7+ volts is fun, but also bad :)

Nivida GTX295 Vid Card RIP
Very little uses, then just wouldn't power up/on right.

i7 975 CPU
As it turns out, crazy high vtt can kill a cpu!!

Gigabyte EX-UD5 Motherboard
Not 100% sure what killed it, could have been soo many things we were doing to it at the time.

Evga GTX285 Vid Card RIP
Bad mod, took some SMD's out.

Asus X48 Rampage Extreme Motherboard RIP
First time having LN2 at home since Nov 08, and I kill the board with in 10 mins... 48 ltrs left :bang head

Intel E8600 CPU RIP
See above, looks like the Rampage Extreme took it with her :(

Gigabyte P55-UD5 RIP
She was a good board, didn't last as long as I would have liked, but none the less it was fun.

MSI P55-GD80 RIP
2nd P55 board to die in my hands, this time from a bad flash

MSI 5870 Vid Card RIP
Was a great card, but too much VTT seems to be a bad thing.

[George_o/c]

I've killed some hardware as well. Of course not that many as you guys have, but still it was painful :(

Crucial Ballistix PC8500 D9GMH
Rams heavily degraded after operating lots of hours at 2.7V+... They're not dead, but still can't even touch the frequencies they used to be able to achieve. I'm talking about 645MHz 4-4-4-4 and 680MHz 5-4-4-4 SPi 1M.

Sapphire Radeon X1300 Pro
It just stopped working... Can't really understand why. I literally don't have a clue.

Radeon 7500
Tried to mod that biatch. Poor thing, cut down in the prime of its life LOL.

GeForce FX5200
Wanted to bench that one. Accidentally destroyed its fan, but was a bit late to understand it. After some 3D benching I saw smoke, dead.

Celeron 430 LGA775
1.8-1.85V PLL can get your cpu killed, period.

ASUS P4P800 and P4P800-E Deluxe
Apparently the second one took a Pentium 4 3GHz Northwood with her as well.

Oh almost forgot. I also killed couple 512MB DDR RAMs equipped with Infineon chips.

[Uncle Fester]

well my list is not as bad as some of you guys,

Epox nf2 chipset : bad flash

AMD duron 1800 : stuffed up pen mod

AMD athlon 3400 : too many volts

Corsair ddr2 1066 x 2 kits : too many volts

nx6600gt : got too hot ... lol thats when i opened my case and noticed the fan had jumped out the gpu and was only hanging by wires.

gigabyte nf 250 chipset motherboard : it frustrated me soo much that i went and destroyed it.

Evga Classified e760 : I have no idea it just died after about 200 hours of ln2 think bios chip but don't know.

GTX 295 : stuffed up mods and internal sli connectors prepping for cold.

G-SKILL 2133mhz c9 perfect storm : Burnt pins from over volting

Possible sapphire 5870 : still trying to salvage this card just randomly dropping volts, have to redo vmod and try again. Will be spewing if this card dies it passes vatage 3d at 1380mhz.

Thats my list so far but unfortunatly i am sure it will grow.

[nigel]

hehe ^^
and i have not killed a lot of hardware but i am stil a noob at extreme benching :D

euhm bricked my motherboard Asus P5Q deluxe ^^
and destroid my 4870X2 after pushing it way to far on air :D

And then some hard drives ^^ and an old cpu that i blew up ^^

[George_o/c]

I pushed last night a P4 640 at 1.95V (max) on air and the cpu works fine, 'still :D

4850MHz @ 1.9V :D

[Kriztoffer]

This is my first year overclocking. So my list ain't that big.

Foxconn Bloodrage dead under oc..
Asus Commando shorted
E8700 random death
Sapphire X1600 Pro at 1.95v:p

[FireRx]

Corsiar HK 1000w PSU, DOA out of the box

[Gunslinger]

Classified 759
Thermaltake 1200W
Corsair HX1000
GTX 295 dual PCB
Classified 760
Classified 762
GTX 260

[PP Mguire]

Hmm killed hardware. I try to make it a point to go extreme without killing hardware. Ive killed some hardware though myself.

First thing i killed was Pentium 133. Dad said dont mess with those jumpers....i did anyways...and so it begins.

Voodoo 2 8mb - Didnt realize i needed to keep those chips cool...lesson learned.

Shuttle nF2 Ultra 400 - Unsuccessful pin mod shorted the board and not my golden 2600+. Dont ask how my chip survived it just did.

DFI LP nF3 Ultra - Umm idk what happened to this board. It just up and quite. Was OCing with air cooling and 4000+ and just dead.

Geforce 5600FX Ultra - *click* bright idea! Lets super glue massive cpu cooler and ram sinks to card! *click* Not so good idea.

Geforce 5700FX Ultra - Last one failed? Lets try for a second! Lessons learned. CPU heatsink = bad with super glue. Learned about my new friend zip ties.

XFX 7950GT - I volt modded and bios modded to beyond. Didnt fry the card but the DVI port failed.

eVGA P55 FTW - Water dripped in 3rd DIMM slot and caused the last 2 DIMMs to not work. Still worked through all my phase benching. Couple weeks ago decided to take insulation off and a resistor fell off the back off the board. Scratch first P55 board.

Core i5 750 - Survived my SS bench periods and was taken out by a nasty power brown last week.

eVGA GTX 280 - I got it half dead from a guy who sold it to me (I didnt know it was half dead). It only worked with a water block since him and his buddy warped the copper on the stock heatsink. I decided to take it the rest of the way and send it to electronic heaven. It then was my Christmas Tree ornament.

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3957/dscn1014f.jpg

[subaruwrc]

I've killed some hardware as well. Of course not that many as you guys have, but still it was painful :(

Crucial Ballistix PC8500 D9GMH
Rams heavily degraded after operating lots of hours at 2.7V+... They're not dead, but still can't even touch the frequencies they used to be able to achieve. I'm talking about 645MHz 4-4-4-4 and 680MHz 5-4-4-4 SPi 1M.


put them into the freezer, or bake them.

[*TMWH*]

Intel Core i5 661

[George_o/c]

put them into the freezer, or bake them.

I've tried the freezer resurrection trick, but nothing came out of it. It was kinda weird to be honest, because I've tried that trick again in the past with a Kingston HyperX D9GKX kit and it was working fine afterwards.

Since early 2009 they've found protection in a friend's 24/7 system so no problem for me :)

[bob80]

I killed a mainboard (s370) , a pci videocard (S3 virge :D) and a Pentium MMX !!

[Oj0]

This isn't for hardware that died of old age :rofl:

[miahallen]

:rofl: QFT :rofl:

[EeKy NoX]

:rofl: that's kinda epic post xD

I killed some hw but not that much after all, during my firsts SS shots this mobo died cus of my own fault :D

http://hwbot.org/signature.img?iid=274690&thumb=false&iehack=.jpg

http://hwbot.org/signature.img?iid=274691&thumb=false&iehack=.jpg

and the chip in his socket runing WPrime1024 : hiting this (http://hwbot.org/community/submission/912505_eeky_nox_cpu_z_core_2_e7300_2.66ghz_5000_mhz) before

But a couple of weeks ago I killed one of my Perfect Storm 17066 C8 module :( ...waiting after RMA atmo.

[Oj0]

Add an AOpen 700w to my list. Sessions with a C2D at 5.6GHz + either two 4870x2s or two 9800GX2s followed by having its fan removed and being run that way for six months took their toll.