In this thread, we mourn the death of our beloved pc parts. share your grief

[FlamingDefibs]

I shorted out my old GTX 560 two years ago by pulling it out of the PCI-slot before removing the power connectors. 

 

I am... a murderer.

 

[Jumper118]

my fx6200 is a zombie and came back to life, so its undead  :blink:

[Redtiger]

First it was my razer naga mouse, the left click button stop properly working after 3 months... Was playing WoW those times... While in a raid (I was tanking as pala) it played me, we took a deep wipe. 15 seconds later i launch the mouse towards the wall. Turn into pieces...  God rest that peace of s!@#t.

About 3 months later i spilled beer into my Logitech G19 keyboard... The God of Technology punished me for my early crime. Tried cleaning the expansive but cheaply made piece of hardware, with no use tough, it suffered an electric shock and the main board with the chip had melted circuits.. too expensive to repair.

So I bought the K90 from Corsair + can of cola + tangled headsets cable + rolling with the chair = my 2nd keyboard died, in less then a year.

 

I manage to clean the K90, works fine ... well, with small hiccups

 

Note to self: Leaving beverages on computer desk = bad idea

Made a small investment and bought myself a can holder which is attached to the chair... a lot safer

[smjpl]

1 broken pump, 2 broken pumps. The bloody thing was so awkward to get a replacement the first time round that I decided to go back to air cooling. And to be honest I'm not really that sad, at all! Air cooling produces almost the same temps.

[Blecter]

The old 3.0GHz P4 died when mom accidentally kicked over the case years ago

But that meant a new Mobo and C2D

Almost heatstroked the ATI X1900GT in that system too. Zalman saved the day there.

My old Deathadder mouse died a crushing death in my laptop bag.

And finally, the keyboard on the ASUS G73 lappy has been dead since last Halloween. Kinda spilt beer on it while making my costume. Bummer.

I haven't killed anything in the new build... Yet.

[mgsstar]

2 of my motherboards died because of blown caps on them (was paired up with a cheap psu).

[FizzyFantom]

RAM in my mining rig (recycled from another PC where it worked perfectly for years) died the day I installed the OS

A friend called me over to look at their broken PC. I turned it on and the HDD was making a screeching noise. It was very old, I'm surprised it lived so long.

[fishymamba]

I have killed two things so far.

 

1. A crappy GTX 210, after a couple years of playing Combat Arms on it, it finally died.

2. MSI P67 GD55 motherboard, randomly died one day, got it replaced fast thanks to MSI.

[L_Dub]

 

Not tech but that is the remains of my coding keyboard, it was 9 years old and lasted me 1.5 years before i majorly raged 

[jaqiefox]

I have had hardware fail on me since this, but the thing I still mourn the most is my beloved old tyan patriot bx dual slot 1 motherboard.  Started with a couple pentium IIs and wound up with a pair of p3 800E and 1GB ECC ram, the thing lasted well into the halo for pc days for me... eventually it got so flaky it could not reliably boot anymore, poor thing is still missed.

[d33g33]

I can only reminisce about my Geforce 2 GTS (thats right, GTS bitches I was king of the hill) and after some uneducated overclocking it just started to die. Finally it was artifacting EVERYWHERE and I thought why not I'll try run 3DMark. 

 

It loaded the first frame and then ended itself. Then I stepped up to a Geforce 4, 4800 SE, Look out! Everyone marvelled at its heatsink and fan

[-iSynthesis]

My 6570 overheated with the HIS cooler. Now it's buried under a few feet of snow (the cooler, not the card)

 

As for me, Barracuda ATA IV, LGA 775 2.8GHz P4 (hit 5GHz with 2.2v) ASUS P4V8X-X, NVidia GeForce4 MX 4000, Socket 370 Celeron 667MHz.

2.2V? Holy shiti tried that with my old athlon, it was fun running it at 6GHz for about 2 seconds :-)

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The main exhaust fan on my laptop died within the two months of it's purchase and it has had unbelievably bad ventilation ever since. Let's just say it can hit around 90c easy when just running simple things like hd YouTube videos.

[SirReallySam]

This thread is so sad :unsure: :'(

[vaerk]

OCZ Revodrive 3 X2

Just kidding, you never worked in the first place.

 

[squirrl]

Mr OCZ Vertex 2 480GB (A) and Mr OCZ Vertex 2 480GB (B ). Both died the day they were installed. Their little brothers Vertex 2e 60gb and Vertex 2e 240GB are still kicking about and fine.

[Jawad.Qaiser]

My Seagate 2Tb hdd died just after my warranty had finished.

Evga GTX 465 bought it used died in 5 months