Computer that put up with the most abuse?

[vt3c]

What computer did you own that survived the most abuse? E.g. being dropped, overclocked like crazy, heavy CPU usage/PSU usage for extremely prolonged time, etc. 

 

Mine was our HP A1268C. XP Media Center Edition 2005. 2GB DDR2 400mhz. 400w PSU that was awful, Asus M2N-LA, 200GB HDD, Nforce 430, AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+ that I found a way to overclock to 2.3ghz on stock cooling. We upgraded to a 7300GT within a week of owning it and that fried out with literal sparks from the fan grinding against the shroud and all the dust built up from our dusty ass house almost starting a fire when playing games. 

Then we bought a Visiontek ATI Radeon HD 2400 pro and I played games on that every day for a good 4 years before THAT fried out after a power surge during some horrible lightning storms in 2010. In 2011 we had a bad winter and the power went out AGAIN and that fried the onboard video and we got a dreadful dell to replace this legendary system. Even in 2010 when multitasking like a madman CPU usage never went a lick above 70% no matter what I did. 

A stock HP survived a 300mhz overclock for 4 years on a crap 400w PSU, went through 2 video cards and still crawling along on the 6150 LE, also frying the front USB port with a plasticy-burn smell when I tried to plug in a chinese knockoff ipod.

Paid $1,100 for it new at a local Sams Club in 2006. I'll miss it so much. I'd buy another in a heartbeat and drop in a Phenom 9550BE and love love love it all over again~

 

 

[Guest]

Current one, I reinstalled Windows like 6 times.

[Wyre]

Dell Vostro 1500 from work. Laptop held up for 6 years without a single issue.

[SeriouslyMikey]

I don't have it anymore, but it was an old Packard Bell lap top my mother got in 2002. It survived my childhood idiocy and being dropped down the stairs multiple of times. It actually still worked until we got rid of it, only took 5 minutes to boot up. 

[ShadowCaptain]

I dropped my M18x down the stairs.. while it was open.. and it landed on the floor at the bottom, still open playing the youtube video I was watching

 

Its fine

 

I also routinely throw my iPad..at people..walls, the floor...and it cannot die it

[Hans Christian | Teri]

I never abused any of my PC's, but maybe that's just me being weird.

[Sadistic_Potato]

LG something that I can't even find the model of, because the sticker ripped off.It doesn't even have HDMI, 1GB of RAM and some ancient Celeron Processor. To top it, a WHITE keyboard that is now brown, a touchpad that works about 30% of the time, and a HDD that literally makes grinding sounds whenever it's on. And it still works, and has never gone "wrong". 

[Fulgrim]

My ol' Q6600 rig. Had it OC'd to 3.2GHz the day i put it in a board. Ran it with 2x 8800GTX's in SLI. I had that thing running 24/7 until i gave the rig to a friend, and put together a new rig, which is what i have right now. I had knocked that pc about a fair bit, because i used it as a doorstop from time to time in my old house too.

[Rashy]

Old coop put up 6 years of kicks, rewires, upgrades, torturing 64-bit, torturing rendering, torturing virus. 6 years of Computer Abuse, i went a year without anti-virus with Old Coop. It was awful.

[Shroomster]

My old shitty Dell prebuilt. It stood through the idiotic sh#t I did to it and still all the parts work. I have it in pieces in my drawers somewhere.

[OriginalPromise]

My Samsung Desktop lasted me 5 years from 2004.

[DigitalHermit]

Toshiba Satellite A60 (ca. 2004)...

Got dropped from 7 ft onto a steel-frame bed with a thin mattress, got drenched, dropped a few more times, reformatted thrice, torn apart four times...

 

Still alive and kicking as a machine for archiving some of my files...

[vt3c]

I never abused any of my PC's, but maybe that's just me being weird.

Understandable. But when some of us were younger... we were unintelligent. ^^

[Butterfish]

My old iphone 3gs

[vt3c]

My old iphone 3gs

I'm still using mine o3o 

[brownninja97]

dell insprion 530s, it got ran over, i ripped on of the capacitors out, i ripped on of the pci lanes out, i took the thermal paste off the cpu to see what would happen, i took the motherboard heatsinks off to see what would happen,  i threw it out the window to see what would happen, it still lives, the side panel doesnt close too easily but it still lives.

 

It looked like this before, but as its not in our house anymore(granfather uses it)we cant take a up to date picture of it.

 

It looked like this when it was new.

[Koffehh]

For sure it was my first PC from hp 15 years ago, I dont remember much about it apart from it had a whopping 4GB of hard drive space on win 98. It lasted all of about 2 years, mainly due to the way I used it, I.e. downloading porn, playing games, 2 different torrents, downloading more porn, occasional spread sheet work with a little porn and heavy downloads from torrents that 30% off the contained some kind of vius or add on' that phucked it up. Needless to say I learnt from my mistakes but not for my second PC, it was my third PC before I realised stuff that I used the stuff i did made its longevity rather short.

In hind sight it taught me alot, the last 2 PC's Ive had have been well looked after, with careful downloads, non usage for looking at boobies and goodbye to torrents. With z reasonable knowledge of what to do if I do have an issue with my PC. Amen to boobies.

[JamieF]

My 3 year old laptop, the screen broke, got it repaired under warranty and then it snapped off lol.

[murratri]

I dropped my M18x down the stairs.. while it was open.. and it landed on the floor at the bottom, still open playing the youtube video I was watching

Its fine

I also routinely throw my iPad..at people..walls, the floor...and it cannot die it

I unfortunately abused my old compiters out of lack of appreciation, and its still alive after 6 years of integrated graphics. It would make GabeN cry, Im sorry

Edit: Inforgot to mention that I now keep it in a better place where it will never know pain again

[Sousuke]

A Packard Bell iMedia J2412.

 

Ran OSX in there, upgraded the PSU and the Graphics Card ran games rather well actually.

 

-Intel Core2Duo E6700 2.67Ghz (Upgraded the CPU Cooler and overclocked it slightly to 3GHz as the Motherboard was very limited).

-GeForce GTS450 1GB GDDR3 (From a 256MB GeForce 8400LE)

-2GB DDR3 Memory 

-500GB Seagate Hard Drive

[KemoKa]

Computers live, sleep, wake up and work, same as people.

 

They also die...

With the exception of my first build. That has an ancient Athlon 64 X2 4200+. It spent a year unassembled on my dresser before being moved amongst other piles of junk to America. Survived that, being assembled on a staticky carpet, having several distros of Linux thrown on there at separate times, before finally being given Windows 7 Ultimate, which nearly killed it. It has spent the majority of it's life filled with dust, running on a stock cooler. To show you how indestructible it really is, I'll throw in the last factor: It survived my younger brother. Now that he is getting my newer desktop, the Athlon can be laid to rest.

My laptop, on the... same hand, has been subjected to absolute torture by me. Humidity, temperature, dust, direct sunlight on the metal backplate... I re-encode anime videos on this thing and it does it like a trooper, but I once made the mistake of making it Handbrake something, forgot about it, then had to bring it somewhere so I put it in my backpack... the insulated, fleecy padded laptop compartment of my backpack. Almost burned my hand when I realized and pulled it out (after almost half an hour), but it was still running with no problem. I throw it onto my bed a lot, and one time I missed... It's fine. I've bounced around the globe with this thing and I absolutely adore it.

 

I probably yammer a bit too much about my laptop (because seriously, it's the only PC I have at the moment...) but I swear by it's reliability. it's a glutton for punishment. I need to construct some sort of support bracket for the display...

 

[UnknownDepths]

A PC I had years ago which had a Pentium IV with the crappy stock cooler with a couple hundred MBs of memory(can't remember how much) which had accumulated tons of dust, used in a really really hot room, and dropped several times.

I dropped the HDD to my current rig not too long ago when I placed iit too close to the edge of my stand while I was doing cable management then the damn thing tipped over and...well you know the rest but it works perfectly fine.

[Flyguygamer]

What computer did you own that survived the most abuse? E.g. being dropped, overclocked like crazy, heavy CPU usage/PSU usage for extremely prolonged time, etc. 

 

Mine was our HP A1268C. XP Media Center Edition 2005. 2GB DDR2 400mhz. 400w PSU that was awful, Asus M2N-LA, 200GB HDD, Nforce 430, AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+ that I found a way to overclock to 2.3ghz on stock cooling. We upgraded to a 7300GT within a week of owning it and that fried out with literal sparks from the fan grinding against the shroud and all the dust built up from our dusty ass house almost starting a fire when playing games. 

Then we bought a Visiontek ATI Radeon HD 2400 pro and I played games on that every day for a good 4 years before THAT fried out after a power surge during some horrible lightning storms in 2010. In 2011 we had a bad winter and the power went out AGAIN and that fried the onboard video and we got a dreadful dell to replace this legendary system. Even in 2010 when multitasking like a madman CPU usage never went a lick above 70% no matter what I did. 

A stock HP survived a 300mhz overclock for 4 years on a crap 400w PSU, went through 2 video cards and still crawling along on the 6150 LE, also frying the front USB port with a plasticy-burn smell when I tried to plug in a chinese knockoff ipod.

Paid $1,100 for it new at a local Sams Club in 2006. I'll miss it so much. I'd buy another in a heartbeat and drop in a Phenom 9550BE and love love love it all over again~

 

 

I loved my old radeon 2400pro, or was it a 2600 pro. Either way, good card for the price I paid, FREE!.

My rig is. 8 hours of rendering 4 time per week. h9 p7 1047 with gt360 and more hdd's.

[Builder]

I dropped my then brand new MacBook Pro Retina 13" onto the concrete floor at an FRC tournament. Repeatedly. I took a file and "removed" all the dents. Thankfully there's only one moving part inside it so it's fine.

[Fgtfv567]

I dropped my M18x down the stairs.. while it was open.. and it landed on the floor at the bottom, still open playing the youtube video I was watching

 

Its fine

 

I also routinely throw my iPad..at people..walls, the floor...and it cannot die it

Dem scratches and dents tho