Whats the craziest/dumbest thing you've done or had happen to your PC?

Fox34 · Aug 4, 2006

I get a lot of stories about people doin crazy mods to their PC's or they O.C'd a processor so much it blew up. I wanna hear the craziest thing youve ever done. Me, maybe would be boiling water on a 3 ghz (900Mhx stock) O.C'd celeron with no heat sink.

LiLvi3tbOi69 · Aug 4, 2006

heh. well it all started when i put some ANTEC thermal compound on my heatsink and processor..left it there for couple months..then i was thinking to get a new one so i opend to see the socket. guess what happend? they were litteraly GLUED together so i used a hair blow drier to soften the gob..i twisted and tried pulling it off. guess what? i pulled off half of it and the other half stayed on lmao

Azn Tr14dZ · Aug 4, 2006

First time I touched or messed with a comp, a 566Mhz Celeron. I wanted to see how it works, and I remember reading something about the what type of sockets there were. I didn't know what socket type it was so I removed the CPU wil it was running. :laugh:

That messed it up, but it was an HP so it was all good.

KennyT772 · Aug 4, 2006

heh...forcebooting a shorted out psu. complete accident. parents gone on vatcation. comp still runs to this day. soyo mobos are shitty but they hold up well to abuse.

i_am_mustang_man · Aug 4, 2006

boiling water is fucking cool. now i want to get a heatpiped single egg fryer on the top of mine.

i think a food making comp would be cool. it would be easy too: have a heatsink soldered to the bottom of the frying pan such that it would require a fan to be moving air across when the egg isn't absorbing the heat, and just shut off the fan when it's cooking time (via a fan controller or something) lol

i want to do this now

KennyT772 · Aug 4, 2006

can we say an octet of heatpipes? :laugh:

Fox34 · Aug 4, 2006

i_am_mustang_man said:
boiling water is fucking cool. now i want to get a heatpiped single egg fryer on the top of mine.

i think a food making comp would be cool. it would be easy too: have a heatsink soldered to the bottom of the frying pan such that it would require a fan to be moving air across when the egg isn't absorbing the heat, and just shut off the fan when it's cooking time (via a fan controller or something) lol

i want to do this now

DUDE! me or you have GOT to do that. You you could just use copper heat pipes and drag em out side and on top of the case preferably use an old O.C'd piece-o-crap so u dont ruin a good system.

Azn Tr14dZ · Aug 4, 2006

We should have a toaster into one of the 5.25 inch drive bays...insert a bagel or slice bread. Then use a software (ToasterTool!) to start toasting, then when it's done, you press eject on the software or keyboard, and it'll pop out! Kinda dumb...I know.

Fox34 · Aug 4, 2006

Azn Tr14dZ said:
We should have a toaster into one of the 5.25 inch drive bays...insert a bagel or slice bread. Then use a software (ToasterTool!) to start toasting, then when it's done, you press eject on the software or keyboard, and it'll pop out! Kinda dumb...I know.

Thats acually a good idea! Ok its on we have to make the "Food" mod.

Azn Tr14dZ · Aug 4, 2006

If you have front panel USB ports, we could have M&M's come out of those, and slide down right to your hands...hmmm... :rolleyes:

LiLvi3tbOi69 · Aug 4, 2006

ahaha the whole food thingy is halariously interesting lmao

Fox34 · Aug 4, 2006

Yea any "Food" ideas anybody has post em!

pt · Aug 4, 2006

don't forget about a drink supporter

feldm4n · Aug 4, 2006

Pulling on a wire and it coming out. This then starts the momentum of slamming your hand into lets say the edge of a videocard. That usually leaves a nice gash

i_am_mustang_man · Aug 4, 2006

i'm going to start a thread about it so we keep saying about bad things that happened to your pc's here

Azn Tr14dZ · Aug 4, 2006

If you have liquid cooling, the reseviour and radiator should be cold enough so after a few hours of gaming, it turns to a slushie, so just turn off your comp and drink it...to bad it'll never happen though.

i_am_mustang_man · Aug 4, 2006

the thread is here

about two weeks ago i had an ultra 775 fire cooler or something like that (the fan is above 50db, so it blew hardcore. i was going to exchange it...) but to isolate the noise problem (this is compared to my two 120mm fans, so it was the only thing heard by far) i decided to slow the fan down by putting my finger on the middle of the fan (the flat part). i was retarded and misplaced my finger, cutting it, and the 3 fan blades, and a bunch of plastic was just eaten up.

pic of damage a week and a half later:
http://img.techpowerup.org/060803/CIMG3678.jpg

click it, but it's big

g12rxz · Aug 4, 2006

I remember once i had so many parts just piling up, all scrap, p3's with missing and bent pins, celerons, etc.... Hammered one of the first socket type celerons into an old p3 motherboard, turned it on, and to my amazement it was actually billowing quite thick and gross smelling smoke. brought it outside with an extension cord, turned it on again and poured water on it...

I had an idea come to me though a few days ago, I was thinking of modding my router inside of an old .30cal ammunition box....

Casheti · Aug 4, 2006

Dumbest thing I ever did...bought a motherboard my CPU wouldn't fit into

Deleted member 24505 · Aug 4, 2006

on my old amd machine,i had watercooling on it,i have to say at the start it was'nt the best job(not enuff clips).

well once i was doing summat in it and knocked a pipe off,i ended up with both hands in the case with one hand on each end of pipe with my thumbs over the ends.i had to just trie and squeeze the two ends back together.i did spray A LOT of water over my gfx card and board tho'

i sold it and the board failed two days later.the guy had to rma it.

Casheti · Aug 4, 2006

Deleted member 24505 · Aug 4, 2006

you could have a round hole on the top of your case,that goes into your round tube res.you then clock the crap outta it and put a hot dog in the hole to warm it up.along with the 5.25" toaster to warm up the bun for your hot dog.maybe a usb sauce dispencer too eh.

Casheti · Aug 4, 2006

Yeah..I see loads of USB gadgets around in the shops...they're awesome

Casheti · Aug 4, 2006

I have a hole in the top of my case....its where I put all my disks...lol

Boneface · Aug 4, 2006

i_am_mustang_man said:
the thread is here

about two weeks ago i had an ultra 775 fire cooler or something like that (the fan is above 50db, so it blew hardcore. i was going to exchange it...) but to isolate the noise problem (this is compared to my two 120mm fans, so it was the only thing heard by far) i decided to slow the fan down by putting my finger on the middle of the fan (the flat part). i was retarded and misplaced my finger, cutting it, and the 3 fan blades, and a bunch of plastic was just eaten up.

pic of damage a week and a half later:
http://img.techpowerup.org/060803/CIMG3678.jpg

click it, but it's big

i dont have a pic but i did stick my thumb in my thermaltake one i had a few yrs ago it was spinning at around 5000rpm...and took the tip of my thumb off...i was just trying to get a little bit of dust of a spot...fan was unscathed...lmao...now i do it so much with all my fans i dont even notice

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Video Card(s)	XFX 9600GT
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