CPU Overclock Explosion

[PohTayToez]

This might be a repost, but I remember seeing this video a while ago, I though it was pretty cool:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nCD5b2ZEjDM

They overclock a Duron so much that when they remove the heatsink it explodes from the heat.

 

[Geoff]

It's been posted before, but the video is a complete fake. A processor wouldnt explode like that, level a perfect square in the table and motherboard. I believe they pre-cut it and put a small explosive on it. A processor at most would just start smoking and then shut down, but the new ones will just shutdown.

 

[chrisalviola]

i have seen a capacitor explode, seeing this video is fake there is no way something like that could explode.

 

[PC eye]

Someone cranked the voltage there for that just to make a video for youtube. Notice the bang sound! An old cpu will simply quit or backclock when the temps get too high. But a silicon chip doesn't explode like a defective cap. Ive seen enough of those go when testing equipment where you then see a small cloud of smoke come up.

 

[PohTayToez]

It's been posted before, but the video is a complete fake. A processor wouldnt explode like that, level a perfect square in the table and motherboard. I believe they pre-cut it and put a small explosive on it. A processor at most would just start smoking and then shut down, but the new ones will just shutdown.

Seems pretty elaborate just for a video, and I have seen a CPU heated with a blow torch to simulate the same thing, and it exploded... the heat causes parts of it to expand faster than other parts causing it to pop.

Also, it is not on top of a table... if you look at the camera pans, you can see that it is mounted on a very thin piece of plyboard on a couple of sawhorses, it's not like it blew through a inch thick table.

 

[PC eye]

That was clearly staged with a bunch of old hardwares(cpu, board) just for the camera! Now seeing capacitors go "Kaaa... BOOM" while actually testing 220v equipment and the cloud of smoke that surrounds you isn't so funny. Sometimes eye protection is required! The ceramc portion simply vaporizes instantly. Something like that is due to defects in materials not contrived.

 

[oscaryu1]

yeah, its a REAL fake, but this one: http://youtube.com/watch?v=NsGxfmLhYJY

is what happens when you take a cooler off, probably many have already seen it, and its VERYinteresting

 

[INTELCRAZY]

No chip is gonna jump out of a mobo at almost 4.3v


I should take my Dell and put a couple of M80's(illegal) in it and say that the hard drive exploded

 

[oscaryu1]

just dont bomb a GOOD dell =)

 

[INTELCRAZY]

just dont bomb a GOOD dell =)

No Dell is good, lol

 

[Kornowski]

Yeah, There's no way that video is real, Just wouldn't happen.

Dell, Pffft!

 

[Archangel]

even before the 'explosion' did you notice how the heatsink was taken off? it wasnt even fixed in place,. no way you can reach 3,1 GHz with a heatsink thats not fixed in place ;o (and a not working fan that is)

 

[PC eye]

No Dell is good, lol

You got that summed up in the shorted sentence seen so far!

even before the 'explosion' did you notice how the heatsink was taken off? it wasnt even fixed in place,. no way you can reach 3,1 GHz with a heatsink thats not fixed in place ;o (and a not working fan that is)

First of all that wasn't an Intel but early AMD Socket A Duron model cpu seen there. The part that you don't see is under the board itself to see just what power feed was soldered onto one of the cpu socket's leads. Gee? You throw a good 12v straight at a 2.5v or whatever cpu and ....."BOOM!". You'll find that 90% or better of the videos seen at that site are simply "STAGED FOR THE CAMERA"! Clink on any link and it's "SHOW TIME"!