Thread: "I had a heart attack because of my computer" association

I've murdered many systems and I keep a fire extinguisher right nest to my desk... no foolin! I overclock and do extreme benchmarking using phase change units that I build. Phase change freezes the cpu and north bridge and video processor. Bringing a cpu down to -100C + does have it problems... condensation is a killer and I've had 2 boards go up in flames (see fire extinguisher). In the past year I've killed a Q6600, 2 E8600's and a Q9550 along with 3 of the motherboards they were on. Right now I have a C1 stepping Q9550 to 4.2ghz on a p35 board..... nice a stable.... for now.

Originally Posted by myfreakinears

Being in the computer industry I know exactly how all you feel. One thing I learned early is have a back up plan. If I asked a few of you what type of back up plan you have and you had to stop to think about it, then you are in for a world of hurt sooner than later. They can be as simple as an external hard drive or as complicated as an online backup utility with a redundant network server. Personally I have 2 external hard drives in rotation that I have copies of anything personal (photos, videos, music, and documents). Everything else can be replaced. Start researching now before it's way too late.

At work I have the fileserver which hosts daily backups of every important server.
It has a RAID5 disk configuration, and we backup the fileserver weekly to LTO3 tapes.

At home all important data is on my workstation with hardware RAID1 disk config, and backed up regularly to external USB disks. 1 of those disks is always off-site.

What I really want is an LTO drive for in my workstation.
But for the money they cost, it is just not going to happen any time soon.

Still, my solution is better than what 99% of the computer users do, which is usually nothing.
I know several people who lost months of important family data in a disk crash. none of them had backups.

Originally Posted by denmason

I've murdered many systems and I keep a fire extinguisher right nest to my desk... no foolin! I overclock and do extreme benchmarking using phase change units that I build. Phase change freezes the cpu and north bridge and video processor. Bringing a cpu down to -100C + does have it problems... condensation is a killer and I've had 2 boards go up in flames (see fire extinguisher). In the past year I've killed a Q6600, 2 E8600's and a Q9550 along with 3 of the motherboards they were on. Right now I have a C1 stepping Q9550 to 4.2ghz on a p35 board..... nice a stable.... for now.

Dude...

Originally Posted by denmason

I've murdered many systems and I keep a fire extinguisher right nest to my desk... no foolin! I overclock and do extreme benchmarking using phase change units that I build. Phase change freezes the cpu and north bridge and video processor. Bringing a cpu down to -100C + does have it problems... condensation is a killer and I've had 2 boards go up in flames (see fire extinguisher). In the past year I've killed a Q6600, 2 E8600's and a Q9550 along with 3 of the motherboards they were on. Right now I have a C1 stepping Q9550 to 4.2ghz on a p35 board..... nice a stable.... for now.

Sweet Jesus man...next time you decide you might fry one, just send it my way. I run an abused computer shelter where the most rigorous thing we load up is video software and games. We like to treat all computers nicely and with respect

I've been doing this sort of thing for 20 years now, ever since I had a 286 with 1 meg of ram. It's sort of like drag racing computers. I really like doing this and I get promo boards from some manufactures just to test them, so that does cut the costs a bit. There is also a lot of swapping and trading going on in the overclocking forums. I build phase change units for people and that makes money too $$$$. Here's a couple pics of one unit that is now running right next to me. The unit uses 2 rotary refrigeration compressors and it is all fitted into a nice sound proofed box. The 2 braided lines have evaporators on the ends that are clamped to the cpu and video cpu's (crossfire, x1950xtx). The whole unit in box weighs about 75 LBS.

Denmason, so how far would you say that a Q6600 can be safely pushed? ie... no super cooler...
Photoguy67

Man, what the hell IS THAT THING? Supercooling does what? Seriously, WTH is that? ("Are you boys cooking in there?" "No." "Are you making an interoceter?")

Processors can run faster the more juice you pump through them. Unfortunately, that also increases the heat, such that it will eventually cook itself. Denmason has basically attached a refrigerator to the cpu, chipset, and video card so that heat isn't an issue.

Looks like that thing will make some good hooch. Send some my way

GOOD LORD denmason. That thing must take some power to run as well.

My pc is pretty simple....just 3 fans, one on the powerfeed, 1 on the processor and one on the videocard.....but seeing that thing makes me wonder how hard I could push them all.