How much HW have you lost over the years?

[Xcel]

As of today I have to add a Seagate 7200.10 Barracuda ES 320GB to the list, it's been acting up and today it seems I might have lost it for good. It was part of my matrix raid 0/5, I hope what's on my raid5 still works.

In chronological order then.

MSI K7T266 pro, died all of a sudden
2x Maxtor Maxline 2, 250GB
E6400, did not like the VTT mosfet burning on my mobo
Asrock s775 Dual VSTA, burned VTT mosfet because of too much graphite
Asus P5B DLX, never worked out of the box (or my dead cpu killed it, unlikely)
2GB of DDR2, D9 GKX

So as you might suspect, my cruncher is currently down

EDIT
Fixed typo in the title

[Jaco]

BFG 6800GT
DFi LP 200Rdx
Naked X2 3800+ (my own fault)
80 GB Maxtor HD (own fault)
Tagan 480w
Cellshock 2 Gb DDR2 800 (2 times)
Crucial Value 2Gb (micron D9)

[s0lid]

EVGA nf680i (my own fault)
Abit nb680i (bios bug)
17" TFT (caps popd)
500W BQT (just died)
LOTS of fans

E: List continues after short thinking:
Asus P5B (bios flash fckd up)
MSI P35 Platinum (no idea)
GF7600GT (really no idea)

Kill count 7 and costs over 1000€

[Jaco]

I have a 7300GT that's having this weird problem.
Refuses to work in a 16x PCI-e slot. (at 16x link width)
Works fine in the 2nd PCI-e slot at 4x link width.
Tried it on 2 boards already .

[Disaster_Master]

I killed not as much as some users here

6800Ultra died after a half year of use.
850XT PE died 2 times :P got it back from rma 2 weeks later dieded again.
300GB maxtor
Promise Fastrack 150 (bye bye data )
MSI 865pe mosfet went up in smoke
Asus Commando
some fans

lots of money spend in 2 years

[karl_eller]

My tally is pretty small, actually.

eVGA 680i A1 (my fault)
1x 1Gb Corsair Value Select DDR2 667Mhz RAM stick (my fault. Plugged it in backwards into my new X38 board (since the slots were upside-down compared to the 680i board). And yes, this was just after I broke said 680i ).

And... that's pretty much it

Eller

[[XC] NetburstXE]

2 Powerman 300 Watt Power Supplies
1 Tyan (I think) Dual Slot 1 Server Board
3 256MB Sticks of PC133 (Tyan board killed them)
1 Black Floppy Drive (floppy disk came out except for the metal part)

[G.Foyle]

ASUS A7V600 - death cause: voltage spike + crappy PSU
ASUS A7V880 - death cause: DOA PSU i got in exchange for the first one
Samsung 639MB HDD - death cause: I opened it to see if there are really spinning plates inside.
Radeon 9800PRO - death cause: silicon popped off the substrate during removing the heatsink. It was most likely dead before.
ASUS P5N32-E SLI - death cause: bad flash, not my fault.
2x 1GB of Cellchock D9s - death cause: Thermalright HR-07s
GeForce 8400GS - death cause: XtremeSystems Cheapazchips 3D Challenge - I might be able to revive it

Kill count: 7
I hope it won't increase any time soon.

[fungry]

A couple fans here and there (bearings began to go lose)

now in order:
a fried Leadtek 6800GT
ABIT AB9
Western Digital 250G 8mb cache

[Martijn]

Radeon 9200 - pipes gone bad
Asus P5LD2 - 4-pin ATX connector fried out (fixed it, died again, taking my PSU with it)
OCZ ModStream 450 - Overload on the 12v line, see the above
Striker Extreme - CPU Init error
Striker Extreme - CPU Init error
Striker Extreme - CPU Init error


Not that much really. I did kill plenty of P2s and P3s, but that was just for fun

[[XC] NetburstXE]

@Martinj - You really had bad luck with Striker Extreme boards. I tried killing a P3 by dropping it off the deck (about 15 feet), but it survived It broke part of the case (plastic), but the computer was fine.

[loonym]

If I counted all the super 7 stuff it would be scary. I went through a big pile of dfi nf2 boards. The nf7s was another popular whipping boy for me. Some ti4600's and 3 X800XT cards. I've killed my share but my biggest loss was 4 years ago when my place burned flat.

[BenchZowner]

As far as I remember:

Cyrix MII 150+ ( don't know why... however it was running OCed from day 1 )
MSI 694D Pro2 ( don't know why ) [ running overclocked of course ]
AMD Athlon XP1700+ ( don't know why - overclocked CPU from day 1 )
AMD Athlon XP2200+ ( ThoroughBred A - don't know why - overclocked as well )
MSI GeForce256 ( don't know why - was overclocked of course )
MSI Radeon X800XT ( don't know why - was overclocked )
HIS Radeon X850XT PE ( cousin's fault, accidentally detached the Vmod and contacted the cable with SMD's... sparkles )
MSI K7T266 Pro2 ( don't know why )
MSI K7N2D-L ( don't know why, two of them died suddenly ) [ not at the same time of course ]
Q-Tec 350W PSU ( burnt on purpose by "overloading" it @ 200W load )
Asus K8N-E Deluxe ( don't know why )
Sapphire Radeon X800GTO2 ( don't know why )
Creative Labs GeForce 4 Ti4600 ( don't know why )
Mushkin RedLine XP4000 ( don't know why... could be that 3.4V supply )
Mushkin RedLine XP3500 ( don't know why... )
GeIL DDR2-1200 4-4-4-12 E.S. ( died during 3-3-3-3 tests @ over DDR2-1030 and 3.7V+ )
Gigabyte 8KI-1100 ( don't know why )
Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 Rev1.1 ( don't know why ) [ died while resting inside its package ]
Asus P5W DH Deluxe Rev1.03g ( don't know why ) [ died while resting inside its package ]
Asus Striker Extreme ( first boot...enter BIOS...set default settings...save and exit....no post... never posted again... ) [ RMA #1 ]
Asus Striker Extreme ( worked for two days... reason...unknown ) [ RMA #2 ]
Asus Striker Extreme 2 ( couldn't wait for the RMA ) [ DOA ] [ RMA2 #1 ]
Asus Striker Extreme ( CPU_INIT after saving the BIOS settings ) [ RMA #3 ]
Asus Striker Extreme 2 ( hang when getting into the BIOS for the first time....never worked again ) [ RMA2 #2 ]
Asus Striker Extreme... SOLD! Ha, got ya!
Creative MegaWorks 5.1 550 ( no reason... ) [ RMA #1 ]
Creative MegaWorks 5.1 550 ( no reason... worked for 3 months ) [ RMA #2 ]
Creative MegaWorks 5.1 550 ( no reason... worked 5 months ) [ RMA #3 ]
Creative MegaWorks 5.1 550 ( no reason... 2 months ) [ RMA to the garbage ]
Super Talent W1600UX2G7 2GB Kit ( 1 DIMM got damaged during transportation...eventually it wasn't a FIMM [ Flexible In-Line Memory Module ] )

Will edit if needed [ hopefully not! ]

Edit:
Forgot 2* Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 80GB SATA HDDs ( reason... somebody [ not me ] dropped them off the shelf ) [ about 5ft free-fall ] )

[[XC] riptide]

Benchzowner: MAXIMUM DESTRUCTION

[fungry]

I guess that is where your screen name originated from huh. Benchzowner.
You sure went through a lot! haha

[Bobsama]

An Intel D845PESV is the only thing I can think of that I killed. It's not really dead--but it's not alive. In short, overheating led to some problems. Killed the second DDR DIMM in it and then I had immense instability. Yeah--bad VRegs IIRC.

[David_L6]

I don't remember losing a lot of hardware....... Lost my marbles though.

Leadtek A380 - 5950 Ultra (Leadtek replaced it)
Enermax Noisetake 600W PSU (Enermax replaced it)
CoolerMaster 380W PSU that came with a case (I just tossed it)
A 74GB Raptor (haven't tried to RMA it yet)
10 sticks of Crucial Ballistix (2X512MB DDR2 800, 2X512MB DDR2 1000, 2X1GB DDR2 1000, 4X1GB DDR2 1066) (some of these have been replaced and I still need to RMA some....)

EDIT: Two 975 motherboards (One Intel, and one I can't remember.)

[s0lid]

And we have an Winner BenchZowner

[itznfb]

wow... no way i could remember every piece i've killed

lets see... sum up what i can remember real quick
Asus Max Formula SE and a QX6850 during an LN2 run with a friend, this was probably the biggest hit i've taken..

DFI Infinity P965-S during an LN2 bench on the NB with same friend that i was with when i killed the QX and MaxFor. going for 675FSB,,, only reached 625 when a little vreg flew off and hit my friend right in the safety glasses lol. a few things popped and fried... weak

3x ASUS P5B Deluxe
2x ASUS P4C 800 Deluxe
3x Intel E6600
4x Intel P4 2.4C
a few Athlon XPs
i physically lost a P4 2.6C, its somewhere in my room... its been missing for 3 years though =\ probably still works

a lot of PSUs

5 or 6 sets of Crucial 10th aniv
20-22 sets of regular ballistix
man did those things clock high,,, even if just for short periods of time

i killed a couple video cards...

can't really remember anything else right now

[[XC] gomeler]

Hrm. I haven't been involved with the benching scene up until recently so my list of hardware is rather short.

3x Socket A motherboards. I forget the company name and model
First -> Lightening strike through the phone line
Second -> Cracked PCB while mounting evap
Third -> Tossed in trashcan after a mineral oil experiment

4x1GB Buffalo PC2-8000 Firestix -> D9GKX just dies
2x1GB Crucial 10th Anniv Sticks -> G9GMH just dies
4xHD3850
1st -> Dead after 30 minutes
2nd -> Died with EX38-DQ6
3rd -> Tore off a crucial PWM resistor
4th -> Not certain
Gigabyte EX38-DQ6 -> Insulated up for 3d benching and it died.

This list will easily double in the next 3 months, got the benching bug

[NickS]

oh god. 2000+ axp, msi k8n neo4 plat, 3200+ a64, 80gb seagate ide hdd, 52x cd burner, x1800xt 256mb, multiple sets of d9 (>5), 7900gs, biostar am2 matx tforce board, probably some other things too.

[[XC] riptide]

*sigh*

About 4-5 motherboards. a lunchbox full of dead ram. A X800XT PE. A half dozen boards. A old ATI 9200SE. 3-4 PSU's.
If i keep thinking I'll get depressed LOL. No dead chips though that I can recall.

[itznfb]

anyone remember the video of the Athlon with HSF removed and thermal shutdown turned off that punched a hole in the table?

[BenchZowner]

anyone remember the video of the Athlon with HSF removed and thermal shutdown turned off that punched a hole in the table?

Those old and of course fake videos of x86-secret.com

Edit: You mean this one http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...arch&plindex=0

And of course...the vaporizing P4 http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...68346151253701

Oh and don't forget the...self-destructing stolen Intel motherboards and their GPS tracking chips http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...94162832712796

I've seen people believing those videos haha

[twilyth]

Except for a couple cheap desk sets (keyboard, mouse) and a 4-port kvm switch - none.

Good hardware never dies, it just gets recycled and comes back as a Cylon.

Edit - may not count but have a DS4 mobo that only runs at stock - so I guess you could call that defective.