I have an ASUS Sabretooth board complete with military-grade components and heatsinks covering virtually the entire board. It's DESIGED to be overclocked, though I clock it normal. So far, it's lasted me since mid-2013 without any issues. :)
Now let's scroll back to 2001 when I helped Mom get a new computer built which she ultimately gave to me when I moved out on my own in 2002. We had a fairly typical A-Bit motherboard put in, I forget the specific one. In 2005 I started getting weird date anomalies on the hard drive, where files would, at random, come up with date codes which made no sense. I thought maybe the hard drive was going and thus put in a second one to act strictly as a backup drive... but... only date codes were being affected and it started affecting the brand new drive too. The problem got worse and worse, STILL only affecting date codes, but now I was also having random system lock-ups. Eventually, some way into 2006, I had a lock-up while working on my Retro Wizard project (which never saw a release), I reset the system... and... the POST screen just sat there doing nothing. No amount of reboots fixed it. D:
A friend helped me take the motherboard out and lo and behold, the problem was a bad cap right next to the CPU. :P
Never fixed it as back then I didn't know enough about electronics to know that fixing such things were possible. I had taken the CPU and BIOS chips out without any concern for ESD or anything thinking the whole thing was never going to be possible to revive so... Yeah, never going to be revived NOW. :P
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