Quote Originally Posted by famish99 View Post
Agreed, I've never destroyed a board while overclocking, but undervolting/underclocking I've gone threw a few boards already on my amd htpc machine.

I do have a killawatt and it was extremely addictive to see a quadcore phenom 2 system use less than 100w under linx! I'm now inspired to see what I am capable of doing on my i7, but I doubt I would be able to get my total power consumption below 200w under load, since I have a gtx 275, watercooling loop, and 16 phase mobo.
Are you sure that wasn't just bad luck? Why would underclocking hurt hardware? I can see why overclocking could hurt it, but it's already extremely difficult to purposely kill hardware without using excessive voltage... Makes me wonder why it's so dangerous to underclock