Don't overclock your AMD!!

[gt40]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5393904704265757054

[Dr Mordrid]

2x the clock without a fan or heat sink?

Much like lighting a stick of dynamite while locked in a closet: if you do it you deserve the result

Dr. Mordrid

[Wombat]

I'll have to watch this again when I'm at home. I'm pretty skeptical that they blew a chip out like that. My first thought is that they blew a squibb under it.

[Mehen]

look at the specs on the cpu-z, theres no way they'd be able to boot at those specs - and did it blow a hole right through the table??

edit: dont think the computer was even on, that fan WAS plugged in when he pulled it out, but wasnt spinning

[Wombat]

Not only that, but the ZIF lever looks like it wasn't actually down.

Blowing the ceramic like that takes some *serious* force. If they had had the CPU pop, it would have just cracked/lifted the metal casing on the CPU.

[gt40]

I thought this might be staged, I've seen plenty of semiconductors blow - but never catastrophically like this.

[Jon P. Inghram]

I've seen a bad wall wart cause a capacitor to explode and destroy a small network hub. I wonder if they're just using the CPU's heat to cook off an explosive charge that they placed in the middle of the socket? Notice the core voltage on the Duron? 4.2v!

[Tjalfe]

I say staged... the core of the CPU is intact and it went up in the explotion.. what would have taken out the fiberglass board and table??

[Nowhere]

Obviously staged - there's no reason why the CPU would fly up. IMHO there was a firecracker, etc. in the hole.

[ZokesPro]

I'll have to watch this again when I'm at home. I'm pretty skeptical that they blew a chip out like that. My first thought is that they blew a squibb under it.

The explosion seems to have come from underneath. I'm a bit skeptical although I don't doubt that this could very well happen.

I saw this test a few years back, where they took a 486 dx33 and OC'd it to 120mhz using a fridge that could get colder than a normal fridge, and cooled the cpu using bottles of alcohol. They got it to -60C, using a vodka bottle right on the die. They managed to run Quake on that thing and had some amazing results but the CPU eventually gave and it did a LOT of damage! It left burn makrs on the inside of the fridge, leave a huge hole in the mobo and destroying 75% of the bottles used. I wish I still had the site, not sure if it exists though. They had pics and benchmarks.

[Tjalfe]

The explosion seems to have come from underneath. I'm a bit skeptical although I don't doubt that this could very well happen.

I saw this test a few years back, where they took a 486 dx33 and OC'd it to 120mhz using a fridge that could get colder than a normal fridge, and cooled the cpu using bottles of alcohol. They got it to -60C, using a vodka bottle right on the die. They managed to run Quake on that thing and had some amazing results but the CPU eventually gave and it did a LOT of damage! It left burn makrs on the inside of the fridge, leave a huge hole in the mobo and destroying 75% of the bottles used. I wish I still had the site, not sure if it exists though. They had pics and benchmarks.

sounds like the alcohol ignited, not the CPU blowing up

[ZokesPro]

sounds like the alcohol ignited, not the CPU blowing up

Yup, that's very possible too. Wouldn't mind having the money to try this out just to see how accurate that AMD video really is. The CPU die isn't cracked though, hmmmm.

[Umfriend]

Wouldn't mind having the money to try this out

and use it to have a few drinks indeed!

[ZokesPro]

and use it to have a few drinks indeed!

I meant the AMD test in the video, not the one using all those vodka bottles!

Now once you've had enough to drink, if your tired of watching CPU's explode, watch a whale explode!!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3712178515303087869

[Tjalfe]

I meant the AMD test in the video, not the one using all those vodka bottles!

Now once you've had enough to drink, if your tired of watching CPU's explode, watch a whale explode!!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...78515303087869

I wish someone had a better quality version of that clip sitting around.. it is so pixelated that it would look horrible on even a miniature ipod screen