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redeye · Feb 5, 2012, 05:37 PM

wrecked an ATi xt800 aiw, due to the zalman silent cooler clamping it too hard, causing ram issues and so received a new one from ATI, but because didn't want to get up for pliers, used a screwdriver, it slipped knocking off an smd resistor wrecking the card. dead card!, in the dead parts pile...

wrecked a Ati 9700 because a capacitor was to close to the agp release lever, so I pushed off the capacitor, didn't RMA It because i modified the cooler, voiding the warranty., in dead parts pile...

because i didn't know that there was fan control software for an Asus 4870 dark knight, i cut and modified the fan cable for the card(voiding the warranty), and the spring from the scythe Cpu HSF fell on the card shorting the power section of the 4870, so that the it wouldnt allow the pc to post because the 4870 said "hook up the power cables to the card" but they were. in dead parts pile...

killed a "pc power and cooling ultra silent psu" (ROFLMAO over the title.. so untrue) (way back in the day) when a screwdriver bit fell and shorted the power supply (sparks)... in dead parts pile...

killed the cpu fan header on a m3a32mvp, buy shorting it. not in dead parts pile...

lost a 3200amd cpu because of a bent pin. in dead parts pile...

almost lost an PNY 560ti card because of the arctic cooler extreme II clearance issues... i say almost because i had set it aside for months thinking it was toast, but then a got a 990fx sabertooth with SLI anddecided to see if the pny along with a gigabyte 560ti if it would work... it did (the PNY) no display, but it worked in SLI, so i went back put the arctic cooler back on, bolted the backplate to the card, and it's working now. not in the dead parts pile.

finally, in a stroke of back luck, my sabertooth 990fx has to be RMA'd (not due to my fault!) because the first pcie slot is stuck at 8x, the onboard audio does not work (it was working through my monitor but just stopped working.)
now the PCIE slot one will not recognize nvidia cards (9800gtx, 560ti) but will recognize my AMD 6950!... not in the dead parts pile. yet (but needs rma, is it will be in asus's dead parts pile...)

Sir B. Fannybottom · Feb 5, 2012, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by ThE_MaD_ShOt

Oh hell I done that without the shorting part but I hit the fan and took some skin off.

Back when I was waiting for my A770DE+ to be RMAed I had only my laptop, and I didn't want to spend money on a cooler so I took a bunch of fans and zip tied them together. One day I was picking my laptop up and my finger grazed a fan... That hurt like a mofo it cut my hand and broke a blade off the fan..

Zen_ · Feb 5, 2012, 05:45 PM

Hmm...first piece of hardware I destroyed due to user incompetence was an 800 MHz Duron in my father's computer. It was overheating because the stock HSF's used when AMD switch from slot A to socket A had useless thermal tape, so I took it off to put thermal paste on, but forgot to put the paste on! Started up, smelled a tinge of electrical burning, and that was the end of that Duron.

Shortly after that I also ruined a Soltek KT266A board trying to do a v-mod, even after practicing on a junk board. Thankfully that was right about the time that Abit and EPoX started offering far more aggressive voltage stettings out of the box.

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Originally Posted by Norton

I was running a Socket A system with a 1Ghz Athlon at the time. In the middle of playing a game, Unreal I think it was, I heard a snap inside my PC followed by a rattling noise and a crash.

I was just at the wtf moment when the PC shut down and wouldn't restart??? Pulled the side panel off and realized that the CPU cooler had snapped off the socket and fell off into the bottom of the case.... burned the CPU out in like 10 seconds

I seem to remember a couple stories when Thermalright first introduced the all copper heatsinks of people that had the whole CPU socket ripped off the board

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 5, 2012, 05:58 PM

I have a socket A hsf I bought because it looked cool at the time. A thermaltake Dragon orb 3. Needless to say it has never been removed from the package due to how much it weights. I though that exact thing was going to happen if I installed it. Here's a pic

Solid cooper base. things feels like it weights 5 pounds. lol Doesn't look it though.

Black Panther · Feb 5, 2012, 06:09 PM

Once I was checking temperatures inside my case using my fingers, got too distracted and hit the cpu fan with my knuckles, got startled and hit them again against the rear exhaust fan. Today I know that apparently innocent plastic fans are as sharp as rotating blades while running..

But the worse one was on one of my older pc's. The RAM was really hard to click in place, I had the pc on its side and was afraid of using to much force. So I kinda tried to massage the RAM very firmly up and down.

Suddenly I saw blood pouring over the ram and onto the mobo. I had cut my fingers quite deeply. I cleaned up the ram and mobo with alcohol and they worked.

Norton · Feb 5, 2012, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Black Panther

Once I was checking temperatures inside my case using my fingers, got too distracted and hit the cpu fan with my knuckles, got startled and hit them again against the rear exhaust fan. Today I know that apparently innocent plastic fans are as sharp as rotating blades while running..

But the worse one was on one of my older pc's. The RAM was really hard to click in place, I had the pc on its side and was afraid of using to much force. So I kinda tried to massage the RAM very firmly up and down.

Suddenly I saw blood pouring over the ram and onto the mobo. I had cut my fingers quite deeply. I cleaned up the ram and mobo with alcohol and they worked.

Now that's bleeding edge hardware

I found out that the fan on my 4870 Dark Knight Top can take off part of a fingernail and not stop- ouch

jmcslob · Feb 5, 2012, 08:04 PM

I just got a 1055t about 2 months after they came out and I was in a hurry to try it out....
I didn't feel like taking the time to remove the mobo to change out the HSF bracket to a bolt on enzo type something that I modded and instead used the provided AM2/+/3 kit...Turns out the bracket to hold the HDF was razor sharp...The TIM I used was this and formed a perfect vacuum seal...

But that's not all....

After I realized that the bracket cut the nub off and destroyed my cpu I destroyed my HSF with a hammer out of anger...

Here is my original post afterwards...

I just bought a brand spanking new AMD processor which I will not name and when I put my Xiggy on it I used the AM2 bracket that came with it....

after getting it seated and whatnot I checked out the New cpu in the BIOS and made sure everything was fine..

I then set off to load windows when I heard Snap bam dat dat dat.... and My screen instantly went black..

I opened up my case to find my Xiggy had snapped my retention Bracket and ripping my new cpu out of the socket leaving 7 pins behind and bending half of the Remaining pins...

I blacked out for a bit after that waking up with the hammer in my hands and completely sick to my Stomach...
I will never buy a heavy CPU cooler ever again..even though that Xiggy was a good cooler I don't regret smashing it up...
Instead of just losing a CPU I flipped out.

Not my first FAIL but the most expensive and epic.

Paulieg · Feb 5, 2012, 08:09 PM

The first time I attempted a complete build, I destroyed a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard by installing the motherboard without using standoffs. I was just being impatient. Complete FAIL. However, it was my only fail. I learned to be OCD like when building.

jpierce55 · Feb 5, 2012, 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Black Panther

Once I was checking temperatures inside my case using my fingers, got too distracted and hit the cpu fan with my knuckles, got startled and hit them again against the rear exhaust fan. Today I know that apparently innocent plastic fans are as sharp as rotating blades while running..

But the worse one was on one of my older pc's. The RAM was really hard to click in place, I had the pc on its side and was afraid of using to much force. So I kinda tried to massage the RAM very firmly up and down.

Suddenly I saw blood pouring over the ram and onto the mobo. I had cut my fingers quite deeply. I cleaned up the ram and mobo with alcohol and they worked.

I nailed one of my current Scythe fans and found it surprisingly powerful as well. I would have never suspected those plastic cpu fans could take skin that easily.

I was cut a few years back on some VERY sharp OCZ Platinum DDR2. I pushed and it sliced me like a razer. I ended up pushing it in with an eraser that it also sliced.

Strangerz · Feb 5, 2012, 11:06 PM

I remember when i was much younger and i was watching my father work on his desktop PC. He stepped away and i curiously stuck my finger into the fan thinking that its just a weak plastic fan... ouch

Quickly pulled my sliced finger out and covered so he wouldnt know hah

Velvet Wafer · Feb 5, 2012, 11:08 PM

I installed a Socket A processor for the second time, and this time, placed the thermal diode of the cooler on top of the die...fried proc.

After that i was much more careful, for sure

El_Mayo · Feb 6, 2012, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by jmcslob

I just bought a brand spanking new AMD processor which I will not name

Blatantly Bulldozer! :P

LAN_deRf_HA · Feb 6, 2012, 12:13 AM

My first fail was an on going one. All my cases at first had bumps so there was no need for stand offs. Didn't really get why all the following builds needed to be screwed in very lightly to boot.

qubit · Feb 6, 2012, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by jmcslob

Not my first FAIL but the most expensive and epic.

Damn, that was epic!

Especially the pictures of the smashed up cooler with the hammer beside it.

El_Mayo · Feb 6, 2012, 12:20 AM

I dropped a CPU cooler on my CPU before
Bent all the pins

badtimes
ever since I've been sure to wrap up a cpu or put it in a tin instead of lying around (upside down)

trickson · Feb 6, 2012, 12:21 AM

My first FAIL was when I took my AMD 4000+'s IHS off. Took the the CPU off with it! What an epic fail!

ensabrenoir · Feb 6, 2012, 12:41 AM

hp wal mart special P4.......something made my first raid....impressed by the speed ....back then. Took one hdd out wiped it to use in another rig. Could never figure out why first machine wouldnt work anymore got so ticked ...did a running overhead, gorillia slam into a dumpster with it. Then weeks later....dooooohhhhh!!!!!

Wile E · Feb 6, 2012, 12:44 AM

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AsRock · Feb 6, 2012, 02:01 AM

My first fail would of been when my parents brought a PC for my bro back early 1992.

Well i have always been one of those people who has to look in side some thing same with my younger brother which we thought we would fuck around and check out how a Intel DX computer worked.

Some were along the lines we managed to screw up the OS ( Win3.1 ) b trying other hardware and shit like that. Anyways when good ol dad found out he went crazy on us but mainly me due being the elder and should know better blah blah..

Well he said you better get it back working or a buying a new one which i did get to fix which today i am still messing with in shit that i don't need too even had my HDTV apart lol.

v12dock · Feb 6, 2012, 02:26 AM

My 4850x2 caught fire while trying to fix it

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Feb 6, 2012, 02:34 AM

Some great stories here. Lets keep it up.

Jetster · Feb 6, 2012, 02:36 AM

My biggest fail is a bad habit I have with reaching in a case when its running and feeling the cpu temps. Ive caught my finger a couple of times on fan blades. It ether puts a gash in my finger and blood everywhere or a blade breaks off running a Heat sink and fan combo

Velvet Wafer · Feb 6, 2012, 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Jetster

My biggest fail is a bad habit I have with reaching in a case when its running and feeling the cpu temps. Ive caught my finger a couple of times on fan blades. It ether puts a gash in my finger and blood everywhere or a blade breaks off running a Heat sink and fan combo

same habit, just with diverse locations of fans... im just not careful enough around them!

(one time, a fan blade of one of my EBM papst entered my finger thru the top of the tip, and came out right beneath the nail, on the top... man that did fucking hurt!

)

Norton · Feb 6, 2012, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmcslob

http://img.techpowerup.org/100618/ouch.jpg

I just got a 1055t about 2 months after they came out and I was in a hurry to try it out....
I didn't feel like taking the time to remove the mobo to change out the HSF bracket to a bolt on enzo type something that I modded and instead used the provided AM2/+/3 kit...Turns out the bracket to hold the HDF was razor sharp...The TIM I used was this and formed a perfect vacuum seal...

But that's not all....

After I realized that the bracket cut the nub off and destroyed my cpu I destroyed my HSF with a hammer out of anger...

Here is my original post afterwards...

http://img.techpowerup.org/100602/fuck.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/100602/fuck1.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/100602/fuck2.jpg

I just bought a brand spanking new AMD processor which I will not name and when I put my Xiggy on it I used the AM2 bracket that came with it....

after getting it seated and whatnot I checked out the New cpu in the BIOS and made sure everything was fine..

I then set off to load windows when I heard Snap bam dat dat dat.... and My screen instantly went black..

I opened up my case to find my Xiggy had snapped my retention Bracket and ripping my new cpu out of the socket leaving 7 pins behind and bending half of the Remaining pins...

I blacked out for a bit after that waking up with the hammer in my hands and completely sick to my Stomach...
I will never buy a heavy CPU cooler ever again..even though that Xiggy was a good cooler I don't regret smashing it up...
Instead of just losing a CPU I flipped out.

Not my first FAIL but the most expensive and epic.

My Xig doesn't look anything like that.... just

I know exactly what you mean about that AMD clip for that cooler... it was always a pain to center it on the CPU and when I installed it with the mobo in the case I always checked it 4-5 times to make sure it was in the right place.

I now use that little adapter Xig puts out to convert from AMD mounting to Intel style. I drop the cooler over the studs using the Intel brackets and the spring nuts then hand tighten... perfect every time and turned in the right direction

The only thing that sucks is that you pay like $12 for two pieces of plastic

If I didn't start using that little device your Xig may have had a twin by now except I would have used my 3lb mini sledge

Nocht · Feb 6, 2012, 08:23 PM

I remember my first attempt at overclocking was an Intel Pentium 233 MMX. Smoked it playing Quake with my Riva 128 (still not sure of the root cause, would boot, but very slow). Made a nice key-chain/conversation piece, but turned me off of overclocking for a good while. Upside was my replacement was a K6.

Feb 5, 2012, 05:37 PM	#26
redeye Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: mississauga, on, Canada Posts: 125 (0.14/day) Thanks: 5 Thanked 22 Times in 22 Posts System Specs	wrecked an ATi xt800 aiw, due to the zalman silent cooler clamping it too hard, causing ram issues and so received a new one from ATI, but because didn't want to get up for pliers, used a screwdriver, it slipped knocking off an smd resistor wrecking the card. dead card!, in the dead parts pile... wrecked a Ati 9700 because a capacitor was to close to the agp release lever, so I pushed off the capacitor, didn't RMA It because i modified the cooler, voiding the warranty., in dead parts pile... because i didn't know that there was fan control software for an Asus 4870 dark knight, i cut and modified the fan cable for the card(voiding the warranty), and the spring from the scythe Cpu HSF fell on the card shorting the power section of the 4870, so that the it wouldnt allow the pc to post because the 4870 said "hook up the power cables to the card" but they were. in dead parts pile... killed a "pc power and cooling ultra silent psu" (ROFLMAO over the title.. so untrue) (way back in the day) when a screwdriver bit fell and shorted the power supply (sparks)... in dead parts pile... killed the cpu fan header on a m3a32mvp, buy shorting it. not in dead parts pile... lost a 3200amd cpu because of a bent pin. in dead parts pile... almost lost an PNY 560ti card because of the arctic cooler extreme II clearance issues... i say almost because i had set it aside for months thinking it was toast, but then a got a 990fx sabertooth with SLI anddecided to see if the pny along with a gigabyte 560ti if it would work... it did (the PNY) no display, but it worked in SLI, so i went back put the arctic cooler back on, bolted the backplate to the card, and it's working now. not in the dead parts pile. finally, in a stroke of back luck, my sabertooth 990fx has to be RMA'd (not due to my fault!) because the first pcie slot is stuck at 8x, the onboard audio does not work (it was working through my monitor but just stopped working.) now the PCIE slot one will not recognize nvidia cards (9800gtx, 560ti) but will recognize my AMD 6950!... not in the dead parts pile. yet (but needs rma, is it will be in asus's dead parts pile...) Last edited by redeye; Feb 6, 2012 at 08:44 PM. Reason: spelling, and "in dead parts pile..."

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Feb 5, 2012, 05:58 PM	#29
ThE_MaD_ShOt Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hi! I'm from the Internet Posts: 3,810 (6.71/day) Thanks: 2,641 Thanked 2,518 Times in 1,507 Posts System Specs	I have a socket A hsf I bought because it looked cool at the time. A thermaltake Dragon orb 3. Needless to say it has never been removed from the package due to how much it weights. I though that exact thing was going to happen if I installed it. Here's a pic Solid cooper base. things feels like it weights 5 pounds. lol Doesn't look it though. __________________ Crunchers : Phenom II x6 1090t / 2x Phenom II x6 1055t / Phenom II x4 970BE / “I always succed in my mission tho. Beer just delays it!” -ChaoticAtmosphere “TPU is very mild, and I love to tell people I love them when they are being retarded, it makes me feel special in my special places. What was the point of this thread again? Oh well, I love all of you.” -Steevo “Feels like I am being punished by a team of dumbasses for being slighty more intelligent than a waffle!” -Arjai

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Feb 5, 2012, 06:09 PM	#30
Black Panther Senior Moderator™ Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 7,114 (3.22/day) Thanks: 2,177 Thanked 1,853 Times in 1,110 Posts System Specs	Once I was checking temperatures inside my case using my fingers, got too distracted and hit the cpu fan with my knuckles, got startled and hit them again against the rear exhaust fan. Today I know that apparently innocent plastic fans are as sharp as rotating blades while running.. But the worse one was on one of my older pc's. The RAM was really hard to click in place, I had the pc on its side and was afraid of using to much force. So I kinda tried to massage the RAM very firmly up and down. Suddenly I saw blood pouring over the ram and onto the mobo. I had cut my fingers quite deeply. I cleaned up the ram and mobo with alcohol and they worked. __________________ *My Great White Bengal build* Join the techPowerUp! Official Group on Facebook.

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Feb 5, 2012, 08:04 PM	#32
jmcslob Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Internet Heaven Posts: 2,733 (1.75/day) Thanks: 793 Thanked 424 Times in 328 Posts System Specs	I just got a 1055t about 2 months after they came out and I was in a hurry to try it out.... I didn't feel like taking the time to remove the mobo to change out the HSF bracket to a bolt on enzo type something that I modded and instead used the provided AM2/+/3 kit...Turns out the bracket to hold the HDF was razor sharp...The TIM I used was this and formed a perfect vacuum seal... But that's not all.... After I realized that the bracket cut the nub off and destroyed my cpu I destroyed my HSF with a hammer out of anger... Here is my original post afterwards... I just bought a brand spanking new AMD processor which I will not name and when I put my Xiggy on it I used the AM2 bracket that came with it.... after getting it seated and whatnot I checked out the New cpu in the BIOS and made sure everything was fine.. I then set off to load windows when I heard Snap bam dat dat dat.... and My screen instantly went black.. I opened up my case to find my Xiggy had snapped my retention Bracket and ripping my new cpu out of the socket leaving 7 pins behind and bending half of the Remaining pins... I blacked out for a bit after that waking up with the hammer in my hands and completely sick to my Stomach... I will never buy a heavy CPU cooler ever again..even though that Xiggy was a good cooler I don't regret smashing it up... Instead of just losing a CPU I flipped out. Not my first FAIL but the most expensive and epic. __________________ Where to get Wireless drivers Solve Sleep Issues

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Feb 5, 2012, 08:09 PM	#33
Paulieg The Mad Moderator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Wherever I can find the iron. Posts: 11,448 (4.95/day) Thanks: 2,519 Thanked 3,054 Times in 2,098 Posts System Specs	The first time I attempted a complete build, I destroyed a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard by installing the motherboard without using standoffs. I was just being impatient. Complete FAIL. However, it was my only fail. I learned to be OCD like when building. __________________ "I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds." -Henry Rollins My heatware Save lives by joining the TPU WCG team! Last edited by Paulieg; Feb 6, 2012 at 12:03 AM.

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Sound Card:	Onboard audio :(, and Klipsch 5.1 Pro Media's
PSU:	650 Watt BFG
Software:	Vista 64 Ultimate

Feb 5, 2012, 11:06 PM	#35
Strangerz Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 20 (0.04/day) Thanks: 8 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	Yep, the fans hurt I remember when i was much younger and i was watching my father work on his desktop PC. He stepped away and i curiously stuck my finger into the fan thinking that its just a weak plastic fan... ouch Quickly pulled my sliced finger out and covered so he wouldnt know hah

Feb 5, 2012, 11:08 PM	#36
Velvet Wafer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: North of Germany Posts: 3,849 (2.63/day) Thanks: 2,288 Thanked 1,026 Times in 839 Posts System Specs	I installed a Socket A processor for the second time, and this time, placed the thermal diode of the cooler on top of the die...fried proc. After that i was much more careful, for sure __________________ CPU-Z validation sig pics temporarily blocked

System Name:	Heatbitch / The Dark Tower / Custom Acer
Processor:	AMD Phenom 2 X4 960T @ 4200mhz 1,44v,3130NB /Q9550 3.4ghz 1.20v/ X2 260 1.42v @3.6
Motherboard:	Asus M4A89GTD PRO / Asus Rampage Formula/Foxconn A7DA-S 3.0
Cooling:	Heatkiller 3.0 LT,Laing DDC+,Octakaideca-Rad /EK SP,Tt 400L, B.Ice XT2/Xiggy Black Knight
Memory:	4x2gb Transcend 2400 CL10 1.65v: 1600 7-8-7-24-40 1.65 /Dominator 1066 2GB/Ripjaws 2000 CL9 4GB
Video Card:	6970, soon to be WCed/ 4870x2 HK Full Cover WC´d / 2xGeforce 8800GT HyperSLI
Hard Disk:	128gb Vertex 3, 32GB Ultradrive GX2, 320GB+500GB+2x1TB F1 /160gb Maxtor,500gb F1/ 160GB WD
Optical Drive:	No Room for these
CRT/LCD Model:	LG Flatron 23" W2353V /Benq 19" FP93E-S/TFT 17"
Case:	Thermaltake Shark /Superflower SF-860B/Acer m-ATX Tower
Sound Card:	Realtek Onboard Sound, on all of them
PSU:	Corsair TX850/ OCZ Modxstream-Pro 600W/ MS-Tech 750w
Software:	XP 32bit Professional+ Win7 64Bit Ultimate
Benchmarks:	3DMark Vantage: P21385 3DM11: P5920

Processor:	AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz 95W
Motherboard:	Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H 890GX Socket
Cooling:	Alpenföhn Nordwand Tower CPU Cooler
Memory:	Samsung 30nm DDR3 1600 8GB (2x4GB)
Video Card:	MSI Twin Frozr AMD HD 7850 2GB
Hard Disk:	1TB Samsung Spintpoint F3
CRT/LCD Model:	19" Westinghouse
Case:	Corsair 500R
Sound Card:	Onboard 5.1
PSU:	Corsair TX650W
Software:	Windows 7 Ultimate

Feb 6, 2012, 12:13 AM	#38
LAN_deRf_HA Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 4,069 (2.14/day) Thanks: 295 Thanked 853 Times in 595 Posts System Specs	My first fail was an on going one. All my cases at first had bumps so there was no need for stand offs. Didn't really get why all the following builds needed to be screwed in very lightly to boot.

System Name:	Obelisc
Processor:	i7 3770k @ 4.8 GHz
Motherboard:	Asus P8Z77-V
Cooling:	H110
Memory:	16GB(4x8) @ 2200 MHz 9-11-10-28 2T
Video Card:	Galaxy GTX 660 Ti GC 3GB SLI
Hard Disk:	M4 256GB, 2x 3TB Seagate XT
Optical Drive:	Samsung 12x Bluray
CRT/LCD Model:	Crossover 27Q
Case:	Corsair 550D
Sound Card:	X-Fi Titanium HD with HD598
PSU:	Kingwin LZP-550
Software:	Win7 64bit SP1

System Name:	Quantumville™
Processor:	Intel Core i7-2700K at 4.7GHz (hits 5 gees+ easily)
Motherboard:	Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
Cooling:	Noctua NH-D14
Memory:	16GB (4 x 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 PC3-12800 C9 1600MHz)
Video Card:	EVGA GTX 590 Classified
Hard Disk:	WD Caviar Black 640GB / WD Caviar Green 2TB x2 in mobo RAID 1
Optical Drive:	Whatever DVD drive I've chucked in there right now
CRT/LCD Model:	Asus VG278HE (144Hz, 3D Vision 2, 1080p, 27") & LG W2363D (120Hz 1080p 23")
Case:	Coolermaster HAF 922
Sound Card:	SoundBlaster X-Fi ExtremeMusic (You ever heard one of these? Wow!)
PSU:	Corsair HX850W
Software:	Window 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Benchmarks:	Yes

Feb 6, 2012, 12:20 AM	#40
El_Mayo Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Bristol, England Posts: 2,103 (1.38/day) Thanks: 1,265 Thanked 193 Times in 155 Posts System Specs	I dropped a CPU cooler on my CPU before Bent all the pins badtimes ever since I've been sure to wrap up a cpu or put it in a tin instead of lying around (upside down)

Feb 6, 2012, 12:21 AM	#41
trickson OH, I have such a headache Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Planet Earth. Posts: 6,154 (1.97/day) Thanks: 1,947 Thanked 922 Times in 757 Posts System Specs	My first FAIL was when I took my AMD 4000+'s IHS off. Took the the CPU off with it! What an epic fail!

Feb 6, 2012, 12:41 AM	#42
ensabrenoir Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 741 (0.64/day) Thanks: 242 Thanked 92 Times in 74 Posts System Specs	hp wal mart special P4.......something made my first raid....impressed by the speed ....back then. Took one hdd out wiped it to use in another rig. Could never figure out why first machine wouldnt work anymore got so ticked ...did a running overhead, gorillia slam into a dumpster with it. Then weeks later....dooooohhhhh!!!!! __________________ 1 Corinthians 6:20

System Name:	The Stone that the Builders Refused
Processor:	i7-860
Motherboard:	Asus p7-p55d
Cooling:	Tunig tower 120 extreme
Memory:	8 gigs Gskill ripjaw 1600
Video Card:	2 His 6870 crossfire
Hard Disk:	Adata 64 gig ssd, seagate 400 gig 7200 hdd
Optical Drive:	Sony blu ray burner, lite on dvd burner
CRT/LCD Model:	42 inch lcd tv & three 23'' asus lcds
Case:	Antec 902
Sound Card:	asus xonar dg
PSU:	Antec Tru power 750 blue
Software:	Window 7
Benchmarks:	Heaven: 983 with EVERYTHING maxed out 1920 x 1080 res

Feb 6, 2012, 12:44 AM	#43
Wile E Power User Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Western PA (Pittsburgh suburbs) Posts: 18,129 (7.39/day) Thanks: 450 Thanked 3,826 Times in 3,124 Posts System Specs	http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=38153 http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=41746 Take your pick. __________________ Visit Ashentech “What the hell did you expect? Leave Vista under the pillow and the OS fairy would make it Win7?” -El Fiendo “And Bring Mailman back god damnit, he is the Eric Cartman of TPU” -MRCL

System Name:	The ClusterF**k
Processor:	980X @ 4212Mhz 24/7
Motherboard:	Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 BIOS F12
Cooling:	MCR-320, DDC-1 pump w/Bitspower res top (1/2" fittings), Koolance CPU-360
Memory:	3x2GB Mushkin Redlines 1600Mhz 6-8-6-24
Video Card:	Evga GTX 580
Hard Disk:	Seagate 7200.10 320GB x2 RAID0; 2 x Samsung F2 1.5TB; 1 x F1 1TB; 1 x F4 2TB
Optical Drive:	LG WH10LS30K 10X Blu-ray Burner
CRT/LCD Model:	HP LP2475w 24" 1920x1200 IPS
Case:	Technofront Bench Station
Sound Card:	Auzentech X-Fi Forte into Onkyo SR606 and Polk TSi200's + RM6750
PSU:	ENERMAX Galaxy EVO EGX1250EWT 1250W
Software:	Win7 Ultimate N x64

Feb 6, 2012, 02:01 AM	#44
AsRock TPU addict Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: US\ Uk Born Posts: 8,910 (4.07/day) Thanks: 1,729 Thanked 1,381 Times in 1,199 Posts System Specs	My first fail would of been when my parents brought a PC for my bro back early 1992. Well i have always been one of those people who has to look in side some thing same with my younger brother which we thought we would fuck around and check out how a Intel DX computer worked. Some were along the lines we managed to screw up the OS ( Win3.1 ) b trying other hardware and shit like that. Anyways when good ol dad found out he went crazy on us but mainly me due being the elder and should know better blah blah.. Well he said you better get it back working or a buying a new one which i did get to fix which today i am still messing with in shit that i don't need too even had my HDTV apart lol. Last edited by AsRock; Feb 6, 2012 at 03:58 PM. Reason: ooh the typo's

System Name:	weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Processor:	i5 2500k \ i7 3770k
Motherboard:	ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 \ ASRock Z77 Extreme 4
Cooling:	Gemini II S524 \ XIGMATEK Gaia SD1283 with Couger 1500 RPM fans\ ZM-MFC2
Memory:	Samsung 1600 16GB \ Samsung 1600 16GB
Video Card:	XFX HD6770 \ XFX 6970 w/Prolima MK-13 ( With modded 5870 VRM hrstsink )
Hard Disk:	2x intel ssd x25 G2 80GB \ OCZ Solid 3+2 Corsair Force GT's 120GB (Use HDD's for backups only
Optical Drive:	LiteOn DVD 163 \ TEAC exturnal DVD drive
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung 204B 20.1inch ( Native 12x16 ) \ Toshiba 40" HDTV ( Native 1920x1080 )
Case:	ARK Black HTPC 400BA \ None
Sound Card:	Though video card HDMI ONKYO TX-SR608 +TANNOY MERCURY F4+ Polk Audio RTI4+Polk Audio PSW505
PSU:	CoolMax CXI-600B\ PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad
Software:	Windows Vista Ultimate 64Bit \Win 7
Benchmarks:	Track IR 4 Razer Blackwidow Ultimate ( rma'ed trice and same issue's ) Steelseries XAI

Feb 6, 2012, 02:26 AM	#45
v12dock Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 1,300 (0.79/day) Thanks: 286 Thanked 244 Times in 164 Posts System Specs	My 4850x2 caught fire while trying to fix it

System Name:	Compute 0 / Compute 1
Processor:	i7 720 QM / i5 750 @ 4.2GHz
Motherboard:	Toshiba knows / Gigabyte P55A-UD4P
Cooling:	Shitty laptop cooling / Noctua NH-D14
Memory:	DDR3 1066Mhz x 6GB / DDR2 1600Mhz x 4GB
Video Card:	Geforce 360M / Geforce 470
Hard Disk:	60GB SSD + 320GB HDD / 80GB SSD + 1TB HDD
Optical Drive:	Fancy BluRay Drive / DVD drive
CRT/LCD Model:	17.3" 1080P / 23" Acer 1080P
Case:	This cool looking laptop one
PSU:	Powerbrick / TX750
Software:	Windows 7 64-Bit

Feb 6, 2012, 02:34 AM	#46
ThE_MaD_ShOt Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Hi! I'm from the Internet Posts: 3,810 (6.71/day) Thanks: 2,641 Thanked 2,518 Times in 1,507 Posts System Specs	Some great stories here. Lets keep it up. __________________ Crunchers : Phenom II x6 1090t / 2x Phenom II x6 1055t / Phenom II x4 970BE / “I always succed in my mission tho. Beer just delays it!” -ChaoticAtmosphere “TPU is very mild, and I love to tell people I love them when they are being retarded, it makes me feel special in my special places. What was the point of this thread again? Oh well, I love all of you.” -Steevo “Feels like I am being punished by a team of dumbasses for being slighty more intelligent than a waffle!” -Arjai

Feb 6, 2012, 02:36 AM	#47
Jetster Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Oregon Posts: 2,951 (2.36/day) Thanks: 979 Thanked 897 Times in 655 Posts System Specs	My biggest fail is a bad habit I have with reaching in a case when its running and feeling the cpu temps. Ive caught my finger a couple of times on fan blades. It ether puts a gash in my finger and blood everywhere or a blade breaks off running a Heat sink and fan combo

System Name:	Delta // HTPC
Processor:	Intel i7 3770K // Intel i3 550 3.2Ghz
Motherboard:	ASRock Z77 Extreme6 // Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H Socket 1156
Cooling:	Corsair H100 // SILVERSTONE NT07-1156 90mm
Memory:	Corsair Vengeance 1866 16gb //Corsair DDR3 1600 4 Gb
Video Card:	HIS 7950 3 Gb //Sapphire 6670 1 Gb
Hard Disk:	Samsung 840 250 SSD, WD Caviar Blue 500// Corsair M4 64 Gb Solid State, SAMSUNG F4 2 Tb, WD 1 Tb
Optical Drive:	LG DVDR 24X // Lite on DVDR 24X
CRT/LCD Model:	HP 23xi IPS 1080p" // 50" Samsung Plasma 720p
Case:	Corsair Obsidian Series 550D // Silverstone Granada GD05
Sound Card:	ASUS Xonar DS // HDMI Bit Stream to Yamaha RX V571
PSU:	Seagate M12II 750 // Corsair CX 430
Software:	Windows 7 64bit // Windows 7 64bit with XBMC Eden
Benchmarks:	I scored P9327 in 3DMark 11

Feb 6, 2012, 08:23 PM	#50
Nocht Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 2 (0.00/day) Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	I remember my first attempt at overclocking was an Intel Pentium 233 MMX. Smoked it playing Quake with my Riva 128 (still not sure of the root cause, would boot, but very slow). Made a nice key-chain/conversation piece, but turned me off of overclocking for a good while. Upside was my replacement was a K6.

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