Xtreme Grand Prix cemetary

[JfRsQ]

I thought it should be fun to see what we lost during this lonnnnnnnnng competition. :p:

-14 Raid 0 array corruption (mainly pushing too far )
-MSI NX-6600GT 128MB (Voltage Spike)
-1 Sanio Denki San Ace 120mm fan (ice went thru it....lol )
-1 Set of ALtec Lansing ACS48 speakers ( I thought it would be fun to bench my speakers : nforce4 andio vs Audigy, so I used a test CD used in Auto Sound Systems compo... they didn't survive :( )
-Enermax A06 Fan Controller... LCD died as well as 1 fan channel :slap:


EDIT: sorry for taking over your post :P
-saaya

the Xtreme Grand Prix bodycount:

OS/raid array deaths:
HDD deaths:
CPU deaths:
Videocard deaths:
Memory deaths:
Mainboard deaths:
PSU deaths:

[i found nemo]

sounds like bad luck to me

[Bloody_Sorcerer]

my sanity
my system's stability at any clocks
my last install of windows
:-)

[[XC] leviathan18]

mmm 10 drivers issues at least my cisco router died one install of win lot of dust inside my case my nerves too xD and my sleep no HW died thx to god

[Ugly n Grey]

1 hour old DFI Ultra D....poof...

[Magnj]

My Virginity... uhm right

[Ugly n Grey]

My Virginity... uhm right

and it was so sweet....

[boshuter]

1 160gig IDE hdd.... actually no big loss ;)

Countless hours of trying to get a good windows install on a dying hdd :p:

[Mr_Slinky]

1 asus p5gdc-v that is coming back from being reconstructed and a 550w sparkle powersupply and 1 92mm panaflow that was very brittle and my fingers skin that it took off and 2 bandaids worth of blood didn't hurt much but blead a lot.

[InSanCen]

Erm... nothing here??? (Runs for cover)

Taught me a lot though... (I should stop being lazy and Format & Reinstall... I ran the whole XSGP on a 1 year old "everday" winXP Pro install :eek: )

Kinda feel bad that so many people lost so much kit... and I got away without a scratch (Well, the GF was pretty annoyed at the lack of attention at times... does that count?)

[Mr_Slinky]

no they count for nothing till your married then there the bigest problem you have. not trying to be sexist. its my :2cents:

[Thickbrit]

My tally was 1 panaflo fan,1 172w pelt,1 vantec nexus fan controller,and 2 lcd temp displays,all lost when 1st i forgot to plug in the water pump,then when i shut down because the water was boiling over,i forgot to unplug the pelt.It was well worth it though,i enjoyed the gp a lot and got new pb's in nearly all of the tests.

[Entity_Razer]

No hardware here *knocks on wood like a madman* just my nerves, sleep and about every single water molecule in my room :D All burned away by the heat comming from my comp. This thing pumps out heat like there is no tomorrow :s :p:

thank good no hardware tied on this end...... i would'nve survived :p:


edit: I noticed something weird though. Only it's good....

all the benching and running at high clockspeeds seems to have burned in my GPU?????? :confused:

I'm getting the same clocks as usual but i no longer get arti's in them.......

weird stuff dude :)

[D4nnyOcean]

1 Abit IS7-E. The smoke got out of the MOSFET.

[Jamo]

1 dead western digi hard drive (was in my raid array too)
1 dead kickamus assemus 17" dell monitor.......i really wanted to keep this for life.....i know its sad but its the best dam monitor i've ever seen

[harleybro]

FX-55 clawhammer was first or second week of the compitition but not running for the compitition, 2 7800GTX's from modding, One DFI NF4 smoked a mosfet. I think that's all I can remember for now. :)

[saaya]

lmao! nice thread :D
this deserves to be stuck *click*

imma pm all people who originally signed up and will ask them to post here if they dropped out because of failing hardware :D

[Gray Mole]

Well I didn't even make the competition, and hardware failure was the reason...I thought about joining in a few times, but something seemed to break every time...

1. Dothan 750
2. CT-479
3. P4C800-E dlx Full mods too :(
4. X800XTPE Also modded up
5. Modded Mach2 (Just a pinhole, but needed repair)
6. Max3 754 Mobo (Good riddance)
7. PCI backup graphics card (merely a pawn in a game of chess)
8. My will to keep trying, but that's coming back...

Seemed that one dead thing killed another and killed another, and as soon as I gave up and resigned myself to not being in the competition, things stopped breaking. :confused: Who put the curse on me to keep me out?? :p:

Gray

[[XC] leviathan18]

lol all cuz you will crush us with that dothan j/k

sad to hear about all those loses

i think im quite lucky or maybe i dont push too far my HW well i try but it hangs xD im quite noob

[Ugly n Grey]

I forgot to mention all the dignity I lost as the 9800 series ripped my x700 pro to shreds in 01...

[Bloody_Sorcerer]

well, in that case...
all the dignity i lost having a fairly decent rig get torn to pieces by virtually everyone else.

[InSanCen]

well, in that case...
all the dignity i lost having a fairly decent rig get torn to pieces by virtually everyone else.

i know what you mean... XP1700 Powa! :slap:

[-Acid-]

just got of plane and and in house (ibiza) to see were i finished up and I not even noted.


I was in this comp from the start, lost 2 gpu an motherboard and a psu

i couldnt post in 3dmark 05 as i had killed my DX9 cards and only had a gf3ti200 or a GF4mx440se left both would not let me bench 3dmark05

I was a great comp and i had loads of fun fighting with Jamo,InSanCen and entity Razor. Others too and i was happy to be the old skool hardware kicking modern Ass, i,m sure i freaked out some A64 users in super Pi doing a 34 run.


Thanks Saaya and UnG for keeping the comp going. i made a few freinds and had a great time.

[saaya]

hey troman, did you get my pm?

[Kaffebord]

hmm, lets see.
2 * Socket 478 Mobo (don't remember the name)
Celeron 2,0Ghz Northwood, died from high Vcore over a long time
MSI k8n neo
Radeon 9800pro
Geforce mx420
2 * Western Digital 120GB
Fancontroller
Logitec optical mouse
Old ps2 keyboard