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Out of curiosity, what are some noob mistakes that you have done that have has killed your pc? 
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What are some Mistakes that you have done that have fried your PC?
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Luckily... nothing yet.
...wait, i take that back. I didnt use clamps on my water cooling and after i threw an additional 500w in the loop it heated them up to be more pliable and popped off showering tbe 295x2 i jjst put in. In the end, it didnt die... but it shut the computer down and didnt work until i broke it down and cleaned it up.
Moved from power supply section to general hardware....
...wait, i take that back. I didnt use clamps on my water cooling and after i threw an additional 500w in the loop it heated them up to be more pliable and popped off showering tbe 295x2 i jjst put in. In the end, it didnt die... but it shut the computer down and didnt work until i broke it down and cleaned it up.
Moved from power supply section to general hardware....
When I was a poor student, I spent all my savings on a Radeon 5970 for Bitcoin mining. After about a week of mining I noticed the VRMs were getting very hot. I removed the cooler and thermal pads, and since I didn't have any new thermal pads and I couldn't get any in this country, I used thermal paste instead. Result: The VRMs blew due to insufficient contact between them and the heatsink.
I was VERY upset. Luckily, the price of Bitcoins increased dramatically and I walked away with over $US8,000 in my bank account so the card paid for itself (and then some) after just a week of mining!
I was VERY upset. Luckily, the price of Bitcoins increased dramatically and I walked away with over $US8,000 in my bank account so the card paid for itself (and then some) after just a week of mining!
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Killed a MB not leak testing .
Killed a few GFx cards from vmoding .
Killed a few CPUs back in the day before IHS's by cracking the bare die .
Crappy Psu took out ram mb and cpu .
Killed a few GFx cards from vmoding .
Killed a few CPUs back in the day before IHS's by cracking the bare die .
Crappy Psu took out ram mb and cpu .
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Killed two i7 k CPUs trying to go naked (without the IHS).
Buggered up a z97 ASRock motherboard trying to clean thermal paste from socket pins. Found out that tissues and rags snag those pins very easily.
Damaged a nice Gigabyte socket AM2+ overclocker's board by trying to pry off the Cooler back plate with a screwdriver. Damaged traces to the RAM sockets and after that only one socket was usable.
Buggered up a z97 ASRock motherboard trying to clean thermal paste from socket pins. Found out that tissues and rags snag those pins very easily.
Damaged a nice Gigabyte socket AM2+ overclocker's board by trying to pry off the Cooler back plate with a screwdriver. Damaged traces to the RAM sockets and after that only one socket was usable.
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http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php/717254-THE-BONE-PILE?highlight=bone+pile
I really need to update that thread.........
one stupid boner was running an 8 core fx at over 5 ghz with an adapter in the cpu power cable...........
I really need to update that thread.........
one stupid boner was running an 8 core fx at over 5 ghz with an adapter in the cpu power cable...........
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Killed several Tbreds (462) & P4's (478) overvolting/overclocking
Killed several boards with bad vmods
Killed several video cards overvolting/overclocking
Killed a power supply when I knocked my beer over while overclocking
Smashed a new 22" WS monitor while moving it. Banged it against the door knob
Forgot to leak test one of my watercooling setups. Resullted in a swimming pool in my case along with killing board.
Killed several boards with bad vmods
Killed several video cards overvolting/overclocking
Killed a power supply when I knocked my beer over while overclocking
Smashed a new 22" WS monitor while moving it. Banged it against the door knob
Forgot to leak test one of my watercooling setups. Resullted in a swimming pool in my case along with killing board.
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