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ROTFLMAO!!!

My friend literally melted his AMD processor to his motherboard a few months ago. Needless to say he has more fans than he can count now.

Jesus, what happened to it? And why is the Pentium chip in the mobo pic undamaged?

after i posted, i began to wonder the same thing. im beginning to think this is a hoax. ohwell funny anyways

Trying to be more useful in death, then it had ever been in life (a PC running Windows®), it stuck out the CD tray so that it could become a cup holder.

LOL!!!!!

I dont think even a lightning hit can do that, they did that on purpose.

Overheated processor?

I <3 CSH

lightning *might* be able to do something like that... but I think Krom is right, it was probably an intentional act of destruction (maybe they overclocked the power supply ) That wasn't MS-Windows messing up.

Dude.....

Thats awesome!

Lothar wrote:lightning *might* be able to do something like that... but I think Krom is right, it was probably an intentional act of destruction

Yeah... the very fact that there's a "before" picture is certainly suspect.

Maybe they hooked a car battery up to it.

I've seen lightning do stuff like that many times; never that many failed components in one computer, though.

or a power outage which we get everyonce in a while at RIT.

I don't know why everyone hates windows. I think it kicks ass.

Jeff250 wrote:

Lothar wrote:lightning *might* be able to do something like that... but I think Krom is right, it was probably an intentional act of destruction

Yeah... the very fact that there's a "before" picture is certainly suspect.

The processor in the before picture doesn't quite look like the one in the after picture (and no, I'm not referring to the fact that it looks blown up).

SSC-Thunderbird wrote:

Jeff250 wrote:

Lothar wrote:lightning *might* be able to do something like that... but I think Krom is right, it was probably an intentional act of destruction

Yeah... the very fact that there's a "before" picture is certainly suspect.

The processor in the before picture doesn't quite look like the one in the after picture (and no, I'm not referring to the fact that it looks blown up).

Well the notch is in a different corner, for one.

Someone let the magic smoke out...

Tetrad wrote:Well the notch is in a different corner, for one.

UM...Look carefully guys

I know skimming is your forte

1st picture is the TOP
2nd Picture is the BOTTOM!

From just the looks of it it is a 200/233mhz socket 7, with EDO ram built probally in 1995-96 (definately worth an experiment)

NOTE: the ram pictured is not the ram from the motherboard... if your looking for what is wrong with this picture.

By the last picture of the attachment point damage this would have been a lightning strike

What Bubbalou said ...

I hearby dub Bubbalou DBB Killjoy.

yah really. but ohwell it was a funny thing to look at

lightning is neet. iv seen it hit one computer and kill another one down the line through the network and all the other comps where fine

Hmm... wouldn't it be logical that lightning would strike the least-complicated computers first, seeing as fewer components = less resistance?

the amoutn of voltage and amperage lightning contains, i dont think it would really care.

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Fewer components = less resistance? They teach kids this in school know eh? Gonna hafta revise that part of Ohm's Law. Resistance = Number of Thingies. If 'Number of Thingies' is greater in Subject A than 'Number of Thingies' in Subject B, then blahblahblah.

An example of why you are wrong DC. 10 resistors in series of 10 ohms each is equal to a single 100 ohm resistor. And 100 1 ohm resistors, 400 1/4 ohm resistors.. etc.

The reason why computers are so much more efficient these days is because they use components with less resistance, better heat transmission, and such. An older computer with larger components would have MORE resistance (assuming all components are equal) than a new computer because there is an inefficient design of integrated circuits, poor heat dissipation, HIGH heat generation, and the simple fact that the bigger the circuit is physically, the farther electricity has to travel to get to it's destination which would result in either inductance or dissipation or both... all of which adds to.... RESISTANCE!


I may be wrong, but simple logic states that the more efficient a machine is, the less power it would require to operate, which would also mean less resistance.

And if 300 Watts are put into Computer A and Computer B has 300 watts also... with 115VAC being pumped into the power supply... then resistance (theoretically) would be the same in both computers at 100% component utilization and power consumption.

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Uh, ever heard of "Thermal Runaway"? (look *that* up in your Funk and Wagnall! (some of you will get that joke))

There's also a thing called "Voltage Drop", if you're comparing Series loads....

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DCrazy wrote:Hmm... wouldn't it be logical that lightning would strike the least-complicated computers first, seeing as fewer components = less resistance?

NO,it would strike the Computer with the largest archive of Pr0n first just to spite you!

Warlock wrote:lightning is neet. iv seen it hit one computer and kill another one down the line through the network and all the other comps where fine

★■◆● man, a friend of mine decided to get online after a thunderstorm hit. She thought it was over and gone when all of a sudden her computer died. When I took it apart, the damn modem was CHARRED. Every capacitor with the exception of one had exploded, and the modem was fused into the PCI slot.

SR, I was thinking in terms of identical computers. If I have a computer with features x, y, and z, and an otherwise identical computer with features x, y, z, a, b, and c, would draw more power.

But even that doesn't make sense, because P=IV, but since V=IR and voltage is a constant 120VAC, therefore P=I^2/R, which means that an increase in P means either a decrease in R at constant I, or constant R with a square increase in I.

Forgive me, I'd just gotten out of my Physics final.

Lightning would choose the shortest path or that of the least resistance when traviling through a building or computer network. It will fry anything in it path on the way to the ground.

Lothar wrote:lightning *might* be able to do something like that... but I think Krom is right, it was probably an intentional act of destruction (maybe they overclocked the power supply ) That wasn't MS-Windows messing up.

If you are saying that lightning "could" do somthing like that because it "might" have enough energy to do so, it most certainly does. I have an aircraft part on my desk that is commercially pure titanium that was hit by lightning. It melted like butter and splatter all over the place.

If you meant that lightning "could" do that because it fried some parts and left others intact, I agree with you. I might do somthing like that.

No, I'm saying *could* meaning "is possible, but would require a lightning strike."

Gotcha.

hey ded, im assuming that "titanium" part is either....something to do with engines, or control surfaces

nope.