Are there any overclockers in here?

[akaBruno]

You guy's can't oc. You never crash.

Bruno

[LutaWicasa]

Hahahahaha............Who never crashes?

[akaBruno]

Overclockers never crash hm hmmm chhhhh ahahahhahahahahahhahhahahahahahah.

I'm not alone....

Good ta meet ya! Lut.

Bruno here.

[Pinky]

lol

We're good at it :-D

I don't crash much because I have learned what not to do. It's really easy to avoid serious crashes. My favorite software proggie is "ghost"

"Oh, that driver corrupted?"
[enters floppy, runs ghost]
...
"I wonder what the boys at AOA are doing..."
[doubleclicks IExplorer]

[cloasters]

I murdered a P3E 550 by overclocking it. This means crash, I think. My box certainly thought so. Stone Age, I know.

[SteveI]

Actually, I get one of my systems to crash every other week. However, since I have multiple machines, I always take my time troubleshooting the machines, so there's no rush. I think a lot of our members have multiple machines, so there isn't quite the same urgency.

I guess the most important lesson I've learned from my experiences was to have a back up machine near by... You think I might learn to avoid crashes. :clown:

[akaBruno]

I think that I've just murdered a couple of CD drives, pushing the fsb. Damn cheapies anyway.

Bruno

[surlyjoe]

I only crash em for the first couple weeks after I get it together, once I figure how fast I can get it, I just run it like that till the next upgrade and move on to the next one

[cloasters]

It's a good thing cdrom drives are cheap. I wreck 'em if I catch a sleeve that's too loose on the open tray. I'd gladly pay $5 more for a tray that had metal "guides" on it.

[Spode]

Hell. I've killed **** loads of chips. Durons are disposable in my books.

The scary thing about them is the time frame between each one goes. I'm sure I've done 3 in one day

I personally don't overclock my main machine any more, because I don't need it.

My test bed, well thats a different story.

[cloasters]

I know I didn't see a post from Spode. He's too busy studying.

[martin]

I thought I had read a post on that very subject. Yes...someone was going to be back into the books but I forget who it was now.

[dimmreaper]

Nope, I'm no overclocker. I just enjoy the smell of burning PCB resin, and the taste of acrtic silver . . . .

[Cyberey66]

I know how to crash your computer, buy a mobo from ACORP! No really, they can't handle any ACPI, or any pci/isa devices, oh yea, and they crap out if you try to use a floppy.

As for killing stuff here's my list and what I paid;
sony spressa SCSI CDRW($150 with controller and 4gig hdd)- floppy drive shorted taking this with it
GeForce 256($100 oem)- I did nothing, concluded it was overheatink from the extremly small heatsink
Generic Slocket($10)- I used a Gorb, nuff said
the ink carts on my lex-Z32($100 for the printer)- refilling problem
the floppy power cable on my psu($40 for the psu, but still works)- it melted off when my floppy drive shorted
2.5 gig seagate hhd(free)- um, i kind of pluged it in backwards

I think that's it, i really hate killing hardware, most of the stuff died when it was only a few months old.

[mrpcman]

oh the things i've killed. let me count the ways..Killed a kt7raid, be6II celey 400 celey2 566 piii 600 Tbird 900...lots of good stuff. scsi cd burner...KDS monitor. And many other things..the 400 and 566 both died due to peltier accidents.

[Superman]

I killed a PS, LOL. Let it suffice to say that I am somewhat careful with my hardware

Won't see me in the Hardware Hacking section anytime soon!

[r0l0e]

crash? well since using Microsoft WindowsXP Profesional Edition, i don't inherit any more blue screens at all. LMAO!!

one time i used AS2 thermal adhesive in my duron700/FOP38/kt7 combo. i put it aside for several weeks cause i didn't need it. then one day i figured i'd change the hsf. i forget that i used an adhesive and yanked the core off the wafer.

oh well, atleast the board was stable at 1ghz for a few months.

[Spode]

Originally posted by mrpcman
oh the things i've killed. let me count the ways..Killed a kt7raid, be6II celey 400 celey2 566 piii 600 Tbird 900...lots of good stuff. scsi cd burner...KDS monitor. And many other things..the 400 and 566 both died due to peltier accidents.

oh yeah, I killed a kt7-raid too. For somr eason I only seem to kill cpu's and motherboards, for which there is a list!

I have never killed anything else! How on earth do you kill a CDROM??? Must be the fact we use 240v over here, it's erm, well. better. LOL

I've had things die on me, mainly modems due to thunderstorms though.

[surlyjoe]

Originally posted by r0l0e
crash? well since using Microsoft WindowsXP Profesional Edition, i don't inherit any more blue screens at all. LMAO!!

one time i used AS2 thermal adhesive in my duron700/FOP38/kt7 combo. i put it aside for several weeks cause i didn't need it. then one day i figured i'd change the hsf. i forget that i used an adhesive and yanked the core off the wafer.

oh well, atleast the board was stable at 1ghz for a few months.

HAHAAH dood thats funny!, I yanked a northbidge off the same was cept i was prying on it cause I thought it was taped on, but forgot i changed it

[r0l0e]

LOL! surlyjoe, at least i have a smaller keychain oh well, needless to say, it won't happen again for me.

that reminds me, i sold my computer parts dealer a kk266 for his personal use about a month ago. he just slaped on a TB1.2/266 just last week. i talked to him the other day and he said that the board was dead when his tech tried to boot it.

i forget to tell him that the multiplier was set to 9 and the fsb @165. :-D . yup you guessed it, his "tech" didn't clear cmos before he hit the power. he fried a AXIA chip.