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You all know what I'm talking about. Since you started really working on computers, how many perfectly good processors have you fried in your experiments?

I am happy to say that personally, I have only managed to earn four keychains.

1x Pentium 150MHz - Overheating Problem
1x Pentium 4 1.5GHz, Socket478 - Put a stick of RAM in backwards... >.>
1x AMD Athlon XP 2200+ - Failed Overclock Attempt
1x AMD Athlon XP 3000+ - My pride and joy for so many years. Killed a transistor on the mobo, overvoltage...

List your casualties!

none, I have never had a processor fail on me in any way shape or form. Motherboards is a different story

I lost an Athlon XP 2100+. I didn't know at the time that these processors had anti-overheating protection. So when I turned my computer on(with HSF because the pentiums could do it for a little while and I just wanted to see my new stuff boot up) it shut off automatically. Then I held the power button down...that little puff of smoke told me that I was wrong about just having it on for a few seconds

Originally posted by ZYFER
Motherboards is a different story

I have two of those hanging on my wall

No CPU's but a few sticksof ram and MB's. Oh and 2 17' CRT's due to the bright idea placeing a fish tank on a shelf above them and later trying to change the water while leaning over my desk and monitors.

between lightning and failures I have lost 16 motherboards, 10 of those in the Socket A class. Greatest segment of AMD history as with its processor compatibility