Greatest Overclocking Fails

[david31160]

I'm starting another thread where you can post funny stories and stuff

 

My story (actually my friend's):

He had an Galaxy S3 which he wanted to play undertale on. But the clock speed was too low to run the game. So he overclocked it quite a lot (idk how much). He got it to a point where it was semi stable and he could play the game. You would think he would be satisfied, right? Nope. He decided to overclock it even more which caused his phone to actually MELT. After he broke that phone he loaned a phone from his brother. And it was this really old LG phone with a .9 ghz clock speed. And the instant he got it he wanted to overclock it to 2 ghz. He's insane.

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2 minutes ago, david31160 said:

I'm starting another thread where you can post funny stories and stuff

 

My story (actually my friend's):

He had an Galaxy S3 which he wanted to play undertale on. But the clock speed was too low to run the game. So he overclocked it quite a lot (idk how much). He got it to a point where it was semi stable and he could play the game. You would think he would be satisfied, right? Nope. He decided to overclock it even more which caused his phone to actually MELT. After he broke that phone he loaned a phone from his brother. And it was this really old LG phone with a .9 ghz clock speed. And the instant he got it he wanted to overclock it to 2 ghz. He's insane.

Wait, something wasn't able to run undertale?  Have you seen that game?  I'm pretty sure it would run on a PC from the late 80s if it's written properly

[Moonzy]

not an overclocking fail, but when i practiced overclocking on my 9600GT, i tweaked the mem clock while unigine heaven is running and the entire screen has the "whirlpool" effect where everything froze and starts swirling into the middle slowly

 

i cant make it happen again as much as i wanted to... it was damn awesome  

[AshleyAshes]

Got an AMD A8-3870K and decided to try the Gigabyte 'auto overclock' feature on a whim rather than do it manually. ...In one click, that was the end of that CPU.  I told NCIX it turned up DOA and got them to replace it. >_>

[stconquest]

I tried to OC my Phenom II X6 1055t to 3.9GHz @1.45v.  It crashed.  The end.

 

3.8GHz was my limit.

 

I tried to OC my R9 280 to 1200MHz, it crashed.  The end.

 

1150MHz is stable, kinda lol.

[steezemageeze]

I tried using the auto overclock in AMD's control center and (I think) nearly fried my CPU. I sat back and relaxed while I waited for it to finish and then suddenly I heard a ?grinding? noise come from my rig, so I freaked and closed the program as fast as I possibly could. Luckily, nothing was fucked up, but it was scary as shit. I'll just stick to my 4.0gHz manual OC, thanks AMD

[stconquest]

If any real "overclockers" come here, you will get a seemingly endless list of fails.

[Zodiark1593]

My GTX 960 won't overclock for hell. Tops, I get 1488 MHz under maximum boost. Trying to hit 1500 MHz gets me occasional crashes and artifacts. (My laptop's Radeon 5470 overclocked better) On the other hand, the memory hits 8 GHz flawlessly.

[aisle9]

34 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

My GTX 960 won't overclock for hell. Tops, I get 1488 MHz under maximum boost. Trying to hit 1500 MHz gets me occasional crashes and artifacts. (My laptop's Radeon 5470 overclocked better) On the other hand, the memory hits 8 GHz flawlessly.

Wouldn't happen to be an EVGA 4GB SSC model, would it? Those aren't great end-user overclockers at all, but they've pushed the hardware so far before it even leaves the box that it's not really surprising that artifacts start up at +50MHz. I can overclock mine into next year by cranking the voltage all the way up, but artifacts make things unplayable.

 

I haven't had any spectacular failures myself, but I was once sitting next to a guy who was overclocking a 4690K and wanted to see if he could get 4.7GHz at 1.35v...on air. Hey, not my PC, right? Problem was that he entered 1.53v and reset so quickly that neither one of us had time to catch his error. He booted up just fine and went straight for AIDA64, then started a stability test. Within seconds, he was throttling, the system locked up on him, then everything died. He ended up throwing that CPU away a couple of weeks later because it wasn't even stable at stock speeds and voltages anymore, let alone able to handle any kind of overclock.

[The Flying Sloth]

My younger brother had my old GTX 460 in his rig. Decided it was too slow, used EVGA x16 and moved the core clock slider all the way up, same with the voltage slider.

He is now banned from touching any settings regarding performance and now runs inbuilt graphics.

[flibberdipper]

I threw a 2.8GHz Prescott P4 on a couple of my old ASUS boards that were dying, and I just hit the 3.4GHz auto-OC deal in the BIOS and ran Prime95. I murdered both boards with the same chip, and it still works like new today.

[Zodiark1593]

1 hour ago, aisle9 said:

Wouldn't happen to be an EVGA 4GB SSC model, would it? Those aren't great end-user overclockers at all, but they've pushed the hardware so far before it even leaves the box that it's not really surprising that artifacts start up at +50MHz. 

The 2 GB SSC model. At +41 MHz, I get an artifact every once in about ten minutes or so, maybe a crash. Still not to my levels of satisfactory though. 

[OsuMasterz]

My brother tried to push the pentium g3258 to 5GHZ... it was already at 4.7 with a H110i..

ripperoni dank cpu, its never ogre.