Overclocked Duron Explodes

**Grim** · July 25th, 2006, 18:57 PM

Ok. so it was fake.... get hot, sure, start smoking, sure, but to fly out of the freakin socket like that! no way in hell.

But I'm wondering, anyone think the duron could actually go to 3GHZ!?
LOL. The stable best for the fastest duron I know is a little under 1500. I dont think its possible, but if it was.....

*Grim looks around for his old duron * :|

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Ahh crap, lol. TOOOOTALLy a hoax.

I just took a look at the FSB they were running the chip at lol. ALMOST 800 MHZ! :O lol. NOOO SKT462 CPU works are those speeds! 400 tops.

**cash_site** · July 26th, 2006, 02:21 AM

Err... how do you overclock.. by increasing voltages

... so they pumped in 12v instead of 3.3 and you'd get 800MHz... but also a hole in ur desk!!

**Grim** · July 27th, 2006, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by cash_site

Err... how do you overclock.. by increasing voltages

... so they pumped in 12v instead of 3.3 and you'd get 800MHz... but also a hole in ur desk!!

. Thanks for the attempted clarification... but you're misunderstanding friend.

Durons can reach 800mhz easy... thats not what I'm saying.
What I'm talking about is the FRONT SIDE BUS! (and BTW, just if you were thinking that.... you cant get a faster FSB be raising the v.core

).

However... when you look at these dude's monitor... we see a duron operating at near 4 GHZ (which I believe in itself is impossible) and they also have a 700+ (near to 800 mhz) FSB. WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY AMD SKT 462 CHIP! Just plain impossible seeing that the maximum Bus frequency is 400, unlike the pentiums which are reputable for their high, 800 mhz FSB.

**bionicblond** · September 22nd, 2006, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by cash_site

ok, so its fake... but just to put 1 point across... things dont have to be explosive to explode... explosion occurs when the gases cant be expelled quick enough from the container... so, the die/core being superheated expands quicker than the packaging and BANG!! ... if it happened in the video, we dont know. but dont discount it

Glad to know that everyone here moonlights as nuclear physicist

**georgejr05** · April 11th, 2007, 01:45 AM

that is not true..I have experience on a cpu fan that is not working...but it did not explode like that...tha thing is the cpu stop' responding it hang's the system until you turn it off manually. then when the cpu is cooled, it works again until it will never work at all.

**cash_site** · April 11th, 2007, 02:23 AM

wow, an old thread.

Not sure if Grim is still with us, but i think we were talking about the same thing...

Anyway, @bionic, lol, not nuclear physicist, just some spare time with mentos and diet coke

@georg, i agree that a standard clocked cpu will (most times) shutdown when overheated as, like u said, fan breaks...

Maybe you can increase your core voltage to 12volts and overclock frontsidebus up and up and up... disconnect your fan and then tell me nothing happens

**efc** · April 11th, 2007, 15:33 PM

I remember from the old TechTV days a project by Patrick Norton. He was building an ultimate computer for that time. The project was to use best motherboard, video card, etc. The processor was an AMD Athlon (don't remember the clock speed). All of the fabrication was accomplished live over a period of days.

The thing that makes this story relevant to this topic is that Patrick succeeded in frying two different CPUs. There was visible smoke with one.

**cash_site** · April 12th, 2007, 06:41 AM

Yep... Warning kids : TechTV will smoke your CPUs!!

**thraxed** · April 12th, 2007, 06:50 AM

Originally Posted by Nate89

did u watch the pentium 4 one? its the same people and if you didnt see all the smoke (comming from the firecracker or other explosive device they were using to blow the thing up) then what do you think its from also check out the monitor cords the one for the monitor is it hink white but the one going to the motherboard is black i think or vice-versa and how do you think the holes got there...on a cpu what would be exploding? the silicon? last time i checked theres nothing explosive on a cpu all it would do is heat up fry burn and melt if it got that hot without dieing first

also if you look close when they take off the cpu fan (which they did so without using a screw driver signifying that it wasnt on right) the bar that holds the cpu isnt down all the way and id almost assume that the computer wouldnt stay on as long as it did on stock cooling with the voltage over 4V to the cpu

Your wrong on the video cable, the white cord is plugged into a com slot, yeah i know the heads look similar, but ya clearly see the black monitor cable going in the video card which is not on the motherboard. As for the cpu exploding, well yeah we know thats not really possible. However an electrical surge/arc would be enough to put a whole in the table and maybe crack and send the cpu flying. Good way to test is to stick a screw driver in an outlet socket. Still the identical hole in the table makes it questionable.

**Nate89** · June 14th, 2007, 17:18 PM

I like how this thread is still going a year and a half later :P and as far as the while cable going to a serial port....If the monitor cable is white and the white cord is going to a serial port....how's the monitor going to work? Also, where is the black cable coming from?

**cash_site** · June 26th, 2007, 03:59 AM

LOL.. i just wish there was a high res version to checkk the color of all the cables...

I've got a couple old pentium pro chips.. might hook them up to a UPS or something that can 'spark' 1000Volts and see what happens.. lol.

**Nate89** · June 26th, 2007, 18:47 PM

If you mean UPS as in an uninterpretable power source then 1000Volts is a no. If the unit is rated at 1000VA then that is volt amps which is watts. 1000VA=1000 watts which = roughly 8.5 amps at 120 volts. I might be totally off base here but if I've learned one thing in my electricity class, it's that.