how many people have killed a CPU from overclocking?

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how many people have killed a CPU from overclocking? would like to know

just from over voltage or it just died running at around 60 degrees how ever it died please let me know as long as its overclocking related not like i crushed it with my car.

even if u havent killed one please leave a post saying you havent. just for some basic satisitics.
 
I haven't done much OCing, but I got my e6300 at 2.3 on stock voltage. Once I get my ds3 It'll go to 3.0 gigish and that needs more voltage. I don't think many people will kill a pc through OCing if they know what they are doing... Unlike my mate, who pushed too fair through a bad PSU which went, took the whole system with it, as well as igniting the CPU.
 
My friend and I ran his old 500 mhz Intel up to 1 ghz, where it stayed for about 1 minute before dying. That was fun... I should do it with my old AMD piece of junk.
 
When I knew nothing about over clocking I pushed my cpu to far (a amd 3800+ single core) and I ruined my motherboard I am pretty sure my CPU still works but the motherboard doesn't. Make sure that you read up on stuff and don't push your stuff to far and ruin your brand new computer. Anyway I learned from that mistake and am now a better overclocker.
 
Havent destroyed anything! got my 3200+ up to 2.5, but not stable. I have it at 2.4 stable now, idling at 28.
 
ive killed video cards overclocking, but it was typically because i tried flashing to a higher cards bios.

Very risky procedure. From now on, ill just buy a new card :)

Also, ive impaired my x1300pros performance, because for some reason atitool automatically starts at 600mhz, and its only a 400mhz card! The temps got to almost 90 degrees before i figured out what was wrong. ATItool sucks if you dont know what your doing. I dont know why it STARTS at such a high clock.,

Now even if i run it at the factory speeds, i get weird artifacts if im using a program that uses a TON of my graphics memory.
 
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I've had my 3200+ up to about 2.45ish and it was clearly unstable. But i managed to keep it stable at 210fsb with 12x multiplier, which i can't change because it's locked:(. The temps are about 4-5 degrees above stock temps.
 
i had a 566 running at 700, it melted the socket. When I got a new mobo I plugged it in to see if it had died, and it was still truckin. I've bought AMD ever since
 
I haven't but I hope to one day. lol
I have heard that ppl overclock the moterolas on the coco3 and haven't had any trouble.
 
I've never tried OC'ing before and I think i might try it w/ what I have...but i am very worried about the pushing too far aspect of it...i was reading the ocing 101 and i got the feeling that if u go too far by a bit that ur comp wont start and thats how you know when to stop? or how do u no when ur at ur peak cuz i hear everyone comp is different even if u have same specs
 
You put the overclock under stress, to see if it is actually stable. If it is fully stable, you will have no problems at all, unless you give the CPU lots of voltage to keep the oc stable.
 
thealmightyone said:
You put the overclock under stress, to see if it is actually stable. If it is fully stable, you will have no problems at all, unless you give the CPU lots of voltage to keep the oc stable.
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sry i dont understand what you mean by puting it under stress?
 
Jack Bauer said:
Use a program like prime 95 or something like that to see if it is stable or not.
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o i c thanks, does this program tell u how stable it is? or is it just like a yes and no type thing? but if it wasnt stable...wouldnt it not turn on?
 
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haha said:
o i c thanks, does this program tell u how stable it is? or is it just like a yes and no type thing? but if it wasnt stable...wouldnt it not turn on?
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It will come up with a error message to tell you if it is not stable or not.

Sometimes it will boot if it isn't stable it will boot and you can go into windows but it will randomly reboot.
 
wait actually one more question...just more on this program note...wht does prime 95 ACTUALLY do to your computer to test it out?
 
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