A moment of silence for the many ceramic Athlons on 462 that ended up in smoke.

PcBytes wrote on 2024-09-30, 23:24:

A moment of silence for the many ceramic Athlons on 462 that ended up in smoke.

Yes.
I didn't run many Athlons, but the few I did, had "technical difficulties". Now I'm in the "future" and use a good PSU and proper cooling, so I hope no more casualties.
This one died silently (when it was near-new). No idea what happened, but it even had chipped edges. Is that something they did?

Fan stopped, computer froze but kept burning power = 30W heater left overnight.

Major Jackyl wrote on 2024-10-01, 01:19:

Yes. I didn't run many Athlons, but the few I did, had "technical difficulties". Now I'm in the "future" and use a good PSU and […]
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PcBytes wrote on 2024-09-30, 23:24:

A moment of silence for the many ceramic Athlons on 462 that ended up in smoke.

Yes.
I didn't run many Athlons, but the few I did, had "technical difficulties". Now I'm in the "future" and use a good PSU and proper cooling, so I hope no more casualties.
This one died silently (when it was near-new). No idea what happened, but it even had chipped edges. Is that something they did?

Chipped edges were not uncommon... a shame Athlons were less durable than Durons in that regard. (at least in my experience)

I used to take the hsf off my dual 333/433@83fsb Celerons while q3a timedemo was running just to watch the Athlon boys cringe.

It eventually crashed, but never died.

I had an FX-9590 that boiled over a Deepcool 360mm AIO.
Sprayed all over the case and destroyed pretty much everything (including my Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z) except the SSD.
Deepcool, warrantied it all and that is how I built my first gen Ryzen system. Board, ram and PSU still going strong to this day in my current rig.

myne wrote on 2024-10-01, 09:47:

I used to take the hsf off my dual 333/433@83fsb Celerons while q3a timedemo was running just to watch the Athlon boys cringe.

It eventually crashed, but never died.

As a child, me and my brother brought death upon many a Socket 5/7 CPU(s) by running them without the heatsink and "feeling" the computer POWER surge through while the other loads the system. 🤣 (I started playing with the insides of computers when I was 4-5 years old)

Jasin Natael wrote on 2024-10-01, 21:02:

I had an FX-9590 that boiled over a Deepcool 360mm AIO.
Sprayed all over the case and destroyed pretty much everything (including my Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z) except the SSD.
Deepcool, warrantied it all and that is how I built my first gen Ryzen system. Board, ram and PSU still going strong to this day in my current rig.

Woah, dude! That's intense! Pretty cool that it was covered by warranty.

Major Jackyl wrote on 2024-10-01, 21:48:

myne wrote on 2024-10-01, 09:47:

I used to take the hsf off my dual 333/433@83fsb Celerons while q3a timedemo was running just to watch the Athlon boys cringe.

It eventually crashed, but never died.

As a child, me and my brother brought death upon many a Socket 5/7 CPU(s) by running them without the heatsink and "feeling" the computer POWER surge through while the other loads the system. 🤣 (I started playing with the insides of computers when I was 4-5 years old)

Not as vintage, but I've done that with an AMD A64 X2 5000+, thought it wouldn't get that hot during POST.....

Spoiler: It did. To this day I have no idea why did I even attempt this other than "curiosity killed the proverbial cat".

What's even funnier is that I even ran it with the heatsink on, sans thermal paste, and it didn't seem to mind.. Though the thermal protection eventually kicked in and put the kibosh on that.