Some people should never be let close to a computer
I was bored tonight and so I started looking through youtube and other forums for good examples of those overclockers that should never open their case or people who don't know squat about computers.
Example 1:
On one forum a person was complainging about badcaps. He had recently done some insane overclock and I'm amazed his system didn't just burn up.
Anyways, Nobody said it was badcaps but that it was "a security system in the board". The fix: Solder more china-brand caps to the underside to slow the board from it's ultimate death.
Example 2:
A youtube video shows a team of drive recovery specialists carefully replacing a defective head assembly on a hard drive.
The first comment:
"That is a fake video. Once you open a hard drive they are no longer in vacum and they become useless."
Example 3:
A person installed a new (and overclocked) video card into his computer and on the next boot the partition on his hard drive became corrupted.
Everyone insisted that since both the hard drive and the video card used the same power cable the card caused a surge and corrupted the drive.
Example 4:
A n00b overclocker thought it would be okay to overclock his ram and cpu.
He managed to overclock a p4 to over 3 ghz but the fact that he remained with the stock fan meant that he soon started posting:
"WTF! My computer is overheating almost immediately and one of my sticks of ram burned up!"
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Example 1:
On one forum a person was complainging about badcaps. He had recently done some insane overclock and I'm amazed his system didn't just burn up.
Anyways, Nobody said it was badcaps but that it was "a security system in the board". The fix: Solder more china-brand caps to the underside to slow the board from it's ultimate death.
Example 2:
A youtube video shows a team of drive recovery specialists carefully replacing a defective head assembly on a hard drive.
The first comment:
"That is a fake video. Once you open a hard drive they are no longer in vacum and they become useless."
Example 3:
A person installed a new (and overclocked) video card into his computer and on the next boot the partition on his hard drive became corrupted.
Everyone insisted that since both the hard drive and the video card used the same power cable the card caused a surge and corrupted the drive.
Example 4:
A n00b overclocker thought it would be okay to overclock his ram and cpu.
He managed to overclock a p4 to over 3 ghz but the fact that he remained with the stock fan meant that he soon started posting:
"WTF! My computer is overheating almost immediately and one of my sticks of ram burned up!"
[/rant]
<----Computer says I need more beer.
