Official: What Have I Killed Benching Thread!

sorry to hear that Jeremy, what happened eh?

Hehe used the wrong VR for a volt mod. It called for a 100K ohm, but I didn't see the K and used a 100 ohm

The only bad part is it was a review sample, and I hadn't finished the review yet, was volt modding for the final part

Now I get to ask for a replacement (and a few other items) wish me luck

Hopefully they'll replace it quickly so you can finish that review...

Oops

I tried to kill one of my 4870's the other night, soldered the ground onto the wrong power-connector leg and fed 5V directly into the controller. Card still works great

Three Mb's in about two weeks. When I took apart my vapochill I found a little water in the IP35Pro, so I took it outside and sat it on our barbeque to let it dry out in the sun. Left it there till evening--when I went out to get it I discovered the sprinklers had come on and soaked it completely down--I might as well have dunked it in a bathtub. So I dug out the old P5B-E and fired it up and when it turned on it blew a cap clean off the board. Then yesterday, I got in some new ram from newegg and about 10 min after I installed it my EP35-DS3R shut off. Thinking it was a problem with the new ram, and put my ballisitx back in--no dice, so today I took the machine apart and discovered some part in the pwm area had burned up. All this on hardware I haven't even been doing anything near the edge on. Geeze I think my new case is cursed Or maybe it hates intel....

It appears I've killed my golden Q6600 The one I got my SPI32M golden cup with. It'll still boot 1 of 3 times...but only with "load setup defaults", and then it gets into Vista with only 2 cores enabled, and is very unstable... It was working fine two days ago for a 5 hour session on dice. But today when I went to boot on air...it locked up in windows, so I started to investigate, and it seems to be pretty well trashed. Oh well...RIP

Some stuff that I remember:
- some K5 mobo + cpu - both burned, 1st time when I noticed that too high voltage is bad, then it was pain for me
- S3 Trio 1MB - 1st time when I noticed that setting PCI over 42MHz can kill gfx
- Riva Vanta 16MB - too high oc for longer made artifacts
- GF2 MX - modded bios, was almost good just didn't work
- Radeon X800 Pro - modded to XT, failed vmods - too high voltage, cost about 750$ but made RMA and got new card X800XT
- X800XT - too high voltage, RMA -> got X850XT
- 4 or 5 X850XT , I liked more X800XT, X850XT didn't like so high voltage , all RMA -> got new and for last one I got X1800XT that is still working
- 2x GF6800GT - some nice scores but I wanted too much and both cards died on too high voltage, from RMA got 2x 7800GT
- 2x 7800GT - failed vmod on one , some water on 2nd and artifacts
- GF 6800 Ultra - vmodded , was working ok but when I sold it one resistor fell off and core burned
- ASUS A8N-SLI Dlx - vmod and smoked after maybe month on higher voltages, got new from RMA that is still working with some vmod
- Gigabyte K8NS 754 maybe 3x , boards couldn't take higher clocked newcastle cpu and vmod on dimm, all were working 1-2 months and if I find I add burned pcb photos
- Abit KV7, NF-7, NF7-S - overheating on higher oc (later I checked that temps on KV7 passing 99*C start from 0*C so was about 107*C near fets ), got new from RMA and sold all
- 3x DFI LANPARTY UT nF3 250Gb - that board was for me big unknown , had 3 and all died in 2-3 weeks without even higher oc, on last one had some nice scores in that time, sold last one and got ...
- 2x LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D - one the same as nf3 other was working on high voltages for longer, after 2-3 days without overclock stopped to run at all ... got new from RMA and sold
- Biostar nf3 fully integrated ... I liked high fsb for a micro atx board, just board didn't like it
- Asus P5W-DH Dlx - after longer work on higher vdimm just stopped to see any memory, asus fixed it and it's working in my bro pc
- 3x hdd 80-120GB - by mistake used 5V cable from cooler and burned 3 hdd
- Kingston BH5 on 4,2V
- OCZ Gold PC5000 DDR1 on hynix chips - too high voltage , funny because I was waiting for RMA for 3 months and finally I got for exchange ... Asus P5E
- Cellshock 2x1GB PC8000, 2,9V was too much, got new and its working
- Kingmax 2x1GB PC6400, didn't like anything above 2V, especially 2,6V+
- modded Chieftec 360W - smoked
from other things more from work:
- Abit IC7 - burned while testing on vapochill ( later someone said that IC7 isn't compatible with vapo but we made it work at least for some time )
- 2 engeneering samples of 1st K8 cpus from amd - after some tests and taking cpu out of socket we noticed that 2 pins are still in socket, 2nd cpu we sent to press and they did the same ... AMD was mad
- 2x WDC Raptor - after travel to press both burned

Except maybe 7800GT I didn't break any gfx for over a year, with mobos it's even better ... good because now it won't be so easy to exchange hardware

MIAHALLEN said:

It appears I've killed my golden Q6600 The one I got my SPI32M golden cup with. It'll still boot 1 of 3 times...but only with "load setup defaults", and then it gets into Vista with only 2 cores enabled, and is very unstable... It was working fine two days ago for a 5 hour session on dice. But today when I went to boot on air...it locked up in windows, so I started to investigate, and it seems to be pretty well trashed. Oh well...RIP

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So, I've confirmed the symptoms mentioned above in a second board ...so for sure the chip has issues...what should I do with it? Does anyone want it?

MIAHALLEN said:

So, I've confirmed the symptoms mentioned above in a second board ...so for sure the chip has issues...what should I do with it? Does anyone want it?

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make a key chain???

sry for your loss man.............. Buy a QX from me next week

MIAHALLEN said:

So, I've confirmed the symptoms mentioned above in a second board ...so for sure the chip has issues...what should I do with it? Does anyone want it?

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Run it at stock and fold with it, or put it in a computer for some other purpose where stock is just fine.

Does it work at all at stock? I have 2 chips like that. An E8400 that is in a seldom used work computer that is fine at stock and wont OC, and a Q6600 in my work computer at my desk with the same story (ok at stock wont OC).

Or, like Matt said if its beyond that CPUs make nifty looking keychains

Dawgdoc said:

Run it at stock and fold with it, or put it in a computer for some other purpose where stock is just fine.

Does it work at all at stock? I have 2 chips like that. An E8400 that is in a seldom used work computer that is fine at stock and wont OC, and a Q6600 in my work computer at my desk with the same story (ok at stock wont OC).

Or, like Matt said if its beyond that CPUs make nifty looking keychains

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@Russ. It was only working with 2 cores at BIOS fail-safe defaults. Even just turning off extra features on the chipset in the BIOS caused a failure to post. And even at stock settings with two cores, it was unstable.

Well...I decided to try to pop the lid off....but failed miserably. I see now why people don't do it too often. Now the chip is dead for sure

What method did you use? Would be interesting to try it, but I wouldn't do it on a working chip

I just worked slowly around the edge with a jewelers flathead, prying up the lid...it was stuck on there REALLY TIGHT! By the time I got around 360 degrees, I had already put a slight bend into the PCB (so I figured I had already killed it by then). Then I exerted a lot of force to pulled the lid off. half of one of the dies came off with it oh well

A few minutes ago

owie...sorry for your loss there. nanya ICs ..what brand of ram is that Jeremy?

some of those darn spreaders are like cemented on, I know my kingston spreaders do not want to come off...I'm real curious what's under the hood but I don't want this to happen to them....

Some old corsair PC5400 kit. Was going to practice freezing RAM. Just not on this set I guess

Ouchie. Just stick the spreader back on the other ICs, it will hold that chip in place

Ross said:

Ouchie. Just stick the spreader back on the other ICs, it will hold that chip in place

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THAT would be awesome!

That reminds me...who was talking about putting something in the oven that got pulled off? I want to say it was on a video card or something.

It's toast, look with a magnifier and you'll see the traces (hair dia. or smaller) are torn to hell. Even if they wern't, you'd need to re-ball it and hope to god you got good joints around