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Hey guys, im just interested, what are some way's you guy's have broken PC's? Put your story below on how you broke it!

Have fun :)

~Elias

Main PC: Core i5 4670 | MSI Mpower Max z87 | G.Skill Ripjaws 2x4gb | Stock intel cooler | PNY GTX 770 2gb (hoping to upgrade) | Seagate 1tb 7200rpm | Corsair RM850 | Corsair Carbide Air 540 | PCCG custom sleeved black/yellow extensions | Corsair K70 Cherry MX Blue | Corsair M45 |

Phone: LG Nexus 5 | Headphones: Audio Technica ATH-PDG1, Shure SRH440 | Laptop: Asus 303la (i5 model, 1600x900 res) | Motorbikes: 2004 Sherco 290i, 2013 Husqvarna CR125 | Xbox one

 

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Installed Arctic cooler on my 5870, used wrong cooling pads for the VRAM. Fried it.

CPU: i7 - 2600k. GPU: GTX 1070. Mobo: intel something. RAM: Corsair XMS3 @1600Mhz (8GB). SSD: Crucial MX100 256GB. HDD: WD Green 1TB . Case: Cooler Master HAF XB EVO Monitors: LG 25UM65-P and Benq 2200HD Keyboard: Corsair vengeance K70 FPS Red switch. Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Core. Headset: Steelseries Siberia V2

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Nearly short-circuited my motherboard by forgetting about the standoffs.

The Dude's PC Build<p>i5 4690k @ 3.5ghz w/ The Crappy Intel Stock Cooler | Asus Z97-K | 8GB Corsair Vengance LP DDR3 RAM @ 1600mhz |1TB Seagate Barracuda + 120GB Samsung Evo SSD | Gigabyte Windforce R9 290 4GB | 650 Watt CoolerMaster Gaming Series PSU | Bitfenix Shinobi Windowed | BenQ GL2460 | Corsair Vengeance K70 Cherry MX Brown | Razer Naga Hex Wraith Red gaming mouse | A £0.63 mouse pad from artcow.com

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Was leak testing my loop, found a leak. Went to drain the loop and spilled a bunch of coolant all over my GTX670. Which was fine because I was testing with a second power supply.  I fucked up when I sat the card point blank directly in front of a radiator heater. I was hoping it would dry off quicker so I could get back to installing. Put the card in 24 hours later and it instantly started artifacting...Cooked the chip lol

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Broke of the motherboard usb headers trying to plug the front panel connector in

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Netrunner (2020 build) - CPU: AMD R7 3700X GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 (from 2015 build) PSU: Corsair SF600 platinum RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix RGB 3600Mhz cl16 Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus X570i pro wifi SSD: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB Case: Lian Li TU150W black Cooler: Be Quiet! Dark Rock Slim

 

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Broken a hard drive by the SATA Data connector plastic breaking only leaving the contacts.

 

Managed to fix it by soldering on a SATA Cable to the contacts directly. Now thats what I call a ghetto job, wish I got a picture of it :lol:

Main Machine:  16 inch MacBook Pro (2021), Apple M1 Pro (10 CPU, 16 GPU Core), 512GB SDD, 16GB RAM

Gaming Machine:  Acer Nitro 5, Core i7 10750H, RTX 3060 (L) 6GB, 1TB SSD (Boot), 2TB SSD (Storage), 32GB DDR4 RAM

Other Tech: iPhone 15 Pro Max, Series 6 Apple Watch (LTE), AirPods Max, PS4, Nintendo Switch, PS3, Xbox 360

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Managed to trip going upstairs at my parents house and put the WiFi Network adapter thru a sheetrock wall. Still works fine too, just a little loose around the connector. :)

Dropped my laptop a little to hard on the ground and cracked the screen on my other one.

Spilled soda on my keyboard, now its missing keys....my current laptop.

 

Tho surprisingly I have never damaged a desktop, ever....funny thing it is.

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Going too long without an upgrade.

i5-4670k @4.2GHz Sapphire Tri-X R9 290 @1135MHz 1600MHz G.Skill RipjawsX 8GB Samsung 840 EVO 120GB Samsung 850 EVO 250GB


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Spilt Milo on my MacBook (Milo is a popular Australian Malt/Chocolate hot drink). Although it was fine after removing the cover, mopping up what I could, then leaving it to dry for a few days. Bullet dodged!

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Putting in the RAM (DDR1) backwards... it's now keychain material :P

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Forgot to use standoffs... Burned a part of the mobo... Mobo still works though...

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CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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added a 550ti to a system with a generic PSU, even had to make my own 6 pin to molex adapter from an old 20 pin connector... pretty much destroyed the system, now I will never prioritize anything above the PSU, haha

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Best I got is falling asleep in a hotel lobby and (I assume) laughably crushing my laptop screen as everyone gives me a side eye

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I've never broken anything on a pc, but I did delete the wrong partition once, 2TB worth of data gone in the blink of an eye, took me an entire weekend to get everything back.

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CPU: R5 1600 @ 4.2 GHz; GPU: Asus STRIX & Gigabyte g1 GTX 1070 SLI; RAM: 16 GB Corsair vengeance 3200 MHz ; Mobo: Asrock Taichi x470; SSD: 512 gb Samsung 950 Pro Storage: 5x Seagate 2TB drives; 1x 2TB WD PurplePSU: 700 Watt Huntkey; Peripherals: Acer S277HK 4K Monitor; Logitech G502 gaming mouse; Corsair K95 Mechanical keyboard; 5.1 Logitech x530 sound system

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Spilt Milo on my MacBook (Milo is a popular Australian Malt/Chocolate hot drink). Although it was fine after removing the cover, mopping up what I could, then leaving it to dry for a few days. Bullet dodged!

A friend of mine sliped Famers uinon iced coffee on his laptop. Still works too.

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I've never broken anything on a pc, but I did delete the wrong partition once, 2TB worth of data gone in the blink of an eye, took me an entire weekend to get everything back.

 

That sucks when that happens I've done that with music and movies as well. Weeks to rip them back on there.

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Well ... Short circuiting it from the fan header didn't work , twice .. HAIL ASUS !

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stepped on a laptop and killed the screen (had a dieing hard drive though)

 

Dropped a laptop, cracking the case and killing the hard drive (eventually)

 

Randomly killed the CPU Fan in a laptop (we were playing minecraft all day, so that may have been related).

Normandy - Intel Core i5 3470, 8 GB Corsair Vengenace LP, EVGA GTX 960 SSC, Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H-MVP, WD Blue 1 TB, Seagate 320 GB (steam), Seagate 320 GB (experimental, second OS, etc), Windows 8.1 + Ubuntu 14.10

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Never opened and cleaned my old 8800gts. It got to 139°C when playing crysis and I just let it be like that for months! one of the capacitor are now loose, so if I get black screen I have to push it back into place =P

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I used fan screws to secure te psu in my first build it short-circuited the thing. Corsair was nice enough to just send a new one :D

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 RAM: 16 GB GeIL Dragon 1600mhz GPU: Gigabyte Windforce 770OC 2GB Case: Corsair Obsidian 450D Storage: 1TB WD, Blue, 120GB, munch ssd PSU: 600w Corsair 

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Installed Windows 7 in my Dad's PC since my PC wouldn't boot - broke his HDD somehow.

So many things I could write here... things like this.

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Was leak testing my loop, found a leak. Went to drain the loop and spilled a bunch of coolant all over my GTX670. Which was fine because I was testing with a second power supply.  I fucked up when I sat the card point blank directly in front of a radiator heater. I was hoping it would dry off quicker so I could get back to installing. Put the card in 24 hours later and it instantly started artifacting...Cooked the chip lol

Any electric part that is wet YOU MUST PUT IT IN RICE!

 

 

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I drove over a Dell PC with a PC210 excavator, because it was pissing me off...

That did quite a bit of damage...  :D

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  1. dropped HDDs

spilled water on a whole PC killing the mobo and GPU.

shorted HDDs and disk drives 

A water-cooled mid-tier gaming PC.

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Funny, I've never broken a single component, let alone a whole PC...

Never trust my advice. Only take any and all advice from me with a grain of salt. Just a heads up.

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