Teh Duron = Vapourised

[Howard]

Apologies if this should be in the computing forum, but it's mainly humour as well, move if necessary


http://krhainos.tk/misc/Scene_1_AMD_...al_divx_lq.avi

13MB, well worth the download, it's highly amusing!

[Maffu]

Heh. Poor table.

[Moby-Dick]

hmmmm I suspect a fake , but its darn funny

[Maffu]

I know, well, nothing about overclocking, bar the principle of it. How would that be fake?

[streetster]

well the chip was supposedly at 3.8Ghz on something like 4v (i cant remember now as i saw it a good hour ago lol), and it was cooled by a regular heatsink, and the fan wasn't even spinning... if you took the heatsink off, the duron core would go splat (like in the Toms Hardware videos), i doubt it would explode with enough force to make a square hole in the table...

mark

[Maffu]

Yeah -- I did think that a touch bizarre that the fan wasn't even running. I just thought they wanted it to go bang asap. And indeed, I thought it'd go bang, but not *that* explosive. More, as you said, melt than bang.

And cheers for that.

[Agent]

Its fake

The HSF wasnt even clipped on

[Howard]

I reckon the speed was fake, it's nigh on impossible to get a Duron to those speeds

The explosion looked real though, did it make a hole in the table>???

[Maffu]

Heh. Just realised. The hole was prolly already there. Not that I know how much you can clock something, or what an HSF is, you're probably right.

Mini explosives then?

[Knoxville]

Definatly a fake, even on 4v it wouldn't have exploded.

[Swafe]

ah zee duron serh explodedyed!

funny stuff

[Agent]

It *couldn't* have exploded, its just doesn't have anything that volatile in it. The worse it could do is melt, and even then your looking at extreme temperatures.

It wouldnt run at 4v - the motherboards overcurrent protection would trip in for a start, even if they got around this, i doubt the voltage regulator even has an output of 4v at the higest resistance level you could put on it.

It shows the core speed as 3818.94
The multi is 12.5, the FSB is 302.5 which equals 3781.25mhz - tut tut

Look at the HSF on the CPU. Its not clipped onto the mobo. Due to the AMDs corner pads, it wouldnt have been making contact with the core and burned up in seconds.

Far too many mistakes to be belivable.

[joshwa]

there accents are funny

but yeah - if you don't clip down the heatsink - that will fry your cpu straight off. maybe i'll have to try it sometime although a 4ghz overclock is just not gonna be possible, there's no way they'd even get to windows at that speed.

if you look closely - it says the bus speed is 705mhz!

the hole in the table will be where they shot something at the chip i think... the computer won't even be on...

josh

[gss03]

I can't get this to play.
Can someone tell me where to get the codec to get this to work?

Cheers

[joshwa]

xvid codec is needed. (from here: http://www.divxmovies.com/software/ )

here's where you can watch what really happens to CPU's when they overheat:

link toms hardware

[Arien]

LOL! You gotta laugh at the accents.. but you can blatently see it's a fake for 3 reasons..

1. Why film someone overclocking outside?
2. Their reactions when the fan stops.. "Oh look a fan faliure"
3. There is "equipment" underneath the table when they show the hole.. but then the camera bloke moves back quickly.

Still.. a class video .