worst thing you've done overclocking?

Biohazard · Post by **Biohazard** » Tue Dec 05, 2000 11:59 am

I've now oblitterated 5 celeron 2 533's in under 2 months. I know keep laughing. I just pulled a PIII 450 @ 600 out of a system with some monkey board in it. the board was NOT jumperless, infact it was set via dip switches to 133mhz bus, and 2.3v. Poor celeron 2 didnt' like very much. Stunk up the whole office!

d_b · Post by **d_b** » Tue Dec 05, 2000 9:46 pm

My first attempt with a cel300a. Took my time, made sure the bios was set right, thermal paste, good fan and heat sink,ect.. Fired it up, looped a game demo and left the room for about an hour. When I came back the room stunk of melting plastic and fried wires. It seems I didn't plug the cpu fan in and hd a wire shorting somewhere on the case. Smoked that puppy pretty good.

Reg Kmet · Post by **Reg Kmet** » Wed Dec 06, 2000 4:58 am

i chipeed a ceramic edge off my k6-3 trying to get the heat cap off

still runs like a champ!

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Wed Dec 06, 2000 5:25 am

what else can i say than... MMWUAHAHAHAAA!!! :lol :chug :lol

Chris.U.K · Post by **Chris.U.K** » Wed Dec 06, 2000 5:11 pm

Cyrix MII burnt the mobo and cpu, nice smoke affects.
First celeron 300a. Trashed my hdd using the 83MHz bus.
Same celery 300a too eager to install it i forgot to put the heat sink on it and wondered why it kept locking up.
Same celeron 300a lapped it too much causing a piece of grit to form a vally on the cpu.

Dual 366 @ 616MHz sitting in the Attic at below freezing to get both cpu's stable at 616MHz. Last year was cold too cold.

Finnaly always wanting more out of cpu's ( still abusing my Athlon 750 to go higher).

Chris.

blade · Post by **blade** » Wed Dec 06, 2000 9:43 pm

I keep changing cpu's in my test system and thought I had in a 366 but instead it was a cel400. I set the setting to go to 550 and it actually worked fine for a few days. Then there was that "somethings burning" smell. Doh!

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 3:05 pm

tosted 3 9.1 cheetahs, 2 2940 u2w's, and a mboard in a apple tree. that was a Bad day!

doh

Greg

[Edited by nexus_7 on 12-07-2000 at 03:58 PM]

Danielm7 · Post by **Danielm7** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 3:15 pm

Wow how did you kill so many 533s biohazard?

Biohazard · Post by **Biohazard** » Thu Dec 07, 2000 4:29 pm

133 bus on an i815ep board (toast)
133 bus AND 2.3v on another board
115mhz bus and 1.9v on an MSI board
bad power suply (killed the cheasy board that was running 133 and 2.3v)
Iam4u2nv helped with another one (wait that was a 600e, never mind that one

)
and a crome orb on another one (DON'T do this, this is why they make golden orbs

)

Intel is going to look at 4 of them (tried to drill a hole in the 5th one for a keychain, but it shattered into little tiny shards)

they said they'll replace them if they're defective due to "manufacturing defects". Does that include being made by intel?

LONG LIVE AMD

[Edited by Biohazard on 12-08-2000 at 12:05 AM]

Danielm7 · Post by **Danielm7** » Fri Dec 08, 2000 12:23 am

heh, wow, and I thought I had bad luck.

Frost · Post by **Frost** » Fri Dec 08, 2000 1:58 am

While trying to get my athlon hard-modded to 800 above 864 I took off the heatplate, super glue/heatsink compounded a p3125 on it. They thing didn't exactly work as I had hoped. (Crashed after like 10 seconds in Windows. I figured that since it was mixed with heatsink compound that it would come off pretty easily. Put it in the freezer. Forgot about it till the next day. (The damn thing must ahve been in ther upwards of 16 hours! Then I twisted the heatsink off. leaving a huge whole in the core! I almost had a heart attack. The thing worked for a while, but then it fried most likly cuz there was no metal on the chip to remove the heat. I WON'T be doing anything like that to a $350 cpu again!

Frost.