- Joined
- Jun 14, 2003
- Location
- North Carolina
First, let me state that i have no intentions of turning anyone away from O/Cing their system to the max and then some, but i'm not going to burn another CPU by clocking it 1,000Mhz faster than rated speed, unless i'm absolutely sure of the cooling efficiency.
It all started when i wanted to build a waterblock, and my son wanted one for his rig, which is a duron 1100. I built the prototype, made some revisions, and installed it. it had been running fine at 2353Mhz, 2.025 Vcore, rock-solid on prime95.
Then i got the crazy idea to get a new case, and swap everything over into the new case, including the waterblock setup. My biggest mistake was to not finish what i started when i had the chance.
My son, who is a naive at computers as a snail is to math, decided to try and finish the job, using a copper block heatsink and fan until i got home to finish it. His biggest mistake was to put the HS+F on backwards and no thermal paste (oops). not to mention the massive O/C and Vcore overload.
What he said happened was a little cloud of smoke puffed out of the side of the case, a quiet hiss sound, and a blank screen.
Naturally he was baffled. He had not seen or heard a CPU go "POOF" before. He then proceeded to O/C his CPU by about 400Mhz and .2 Vcore on his stock (read "small" and "cheap" in the dictionary)HS+F. again, no thermal paste, just the factory heat pad material. 3 minutes later, the screen went blank, and "POOF", his duron craps out.
Moral of the story?.........
Mama's, dont let your babies grow up to burn CPUs. My son is so afraid of ruining the new 2500 barton i got today, he won't even get on the web........
It all started when i wanted to build a waterblock, and my son wanted one for his rig, which is a duron 1100. I built the prototype, made some revisions, and installed it. it had been running fine at 2353Mhz, 2.025 Vcore, rock-solid on prime95.
Then i got the crazy idea to get a new case, and swap everything over into the new case, including the waterblock setup. My biggest mistake was to not finish what i started when i had the chance.
My son, who is a naive at computers as a snail is to math, decided to try and finish the job, using a copper block heatsink and fan until i got home to finish it. His biggest mistake was to put the HS+F on backwards and no thermal paste (oops). not to mention the massive O/C and Vcore overload.
What he said happened was a little cloud of smoke puffed out of the side of the case, a quiet hiss sound, and a blank screen.
Naturally he was baffled. He had not seen or heard a CPU go "POOF" before. He then proceeded to O/C his CPU by about 400Mhz and .2 Vcore on his stock (read "small" and "cheap" in the dictionary)HS+F. again, no thermal paste, just the factory heat pad material. 3 minutes later, the screen went blank, and "POOF", his duron craps out.
Moral of the story?.........
Mama's, dont let your babies grow up to burn CPUs. My son is so afraid of ruining the new 2500 barton i got today, he won't even get on the web........