K404 Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 (edited) Sister thread to "The Rage" I have just embarrassed myself by benching with what I can only guess is a dodgy SLI bridge connection. LN2 clocks couldn't beat guys running on air. Awesome Weirdly, i'm not mad. Probably a bad sign EDIT: Just checked my result screenies. All except one were in PCI-E 1.1 mode. Wow. Fail indeed! Edited August 16, 2012 by K404 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeepBeep2 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha haha. ha. h. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 I'll update the thread title then. "K404 fails" seems more appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted August 17, 2012 Author Share Posted August 17, 2012 No no..... other people are meant to post their stories of fail to make me feel better!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Beier Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 I believe my worst 'benching' fail was at P55 Challenge Hamburg, and not my poor choice of a teammate, but rather Stoolman busting me and making my face turn ruby red from blushing, just prior to the contest start :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew Leeghoofd Posted August 17, 2012 Crew Share Posted August 17, 2012 Marc your epic fail moment was in the Romanian guys' room at the Paris Tweaking event. The moment you told everybody you would be easily sub 9 mins at 4ghz, I asked who is this guy ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Beier Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Marc your epic fail moment was in the Romanian guys' room at the Paris Tweaking event. The moment you told everybody you would be easily sub 9 mins at 4ghz, I asked who is this guy ? I did not say such a thing, I said the mark for tomorrow would be to hit sub 9, and if we had better ram, we would have made it =] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mean Machine Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Marc your epic fail moment was when you were born. Fixed it for ya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeepBeep2 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 No no..... other people are meant to post their stories of fail to make me feel better!! Apparently I killed a possible 7 GHz Phenom II CPU by mounting the pot too tight... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just_nuke_em Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 No no..... other people are meant to post their stories of fail to make me feel better!! Got done with a DICE bench session and didn't want the acetone to corrode the pot (AL/Cu mix), so grabbed it off the chip and dumped it in the toilet. I and most everyone else ususally disposes of liquids and other things in the toilet, so why not -80C acetone? When the acetone hit the poo water, it was like a gyser of toilet water, DICE and freezing acetone, right in the face. Yeah... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Gappo Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Got done with a DICE bench session and didn't want the acetone to corrode the pot (AL/Cu mix), so grabbed it off the chip and dumped it in the toilet. I and most everyone else ususally disposes of liquids and other things in the toilet, so why not -80C acetone? When the acetone hit the poo water, it was like a gyser of toilet water, DICE and freezing acetone, right in the face. Yeah... Bahahhaha epic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimba Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 that must of been shit duke (sorry for the bad pun) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sin0822 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Apparently I killed a possible 7 GHz Phenom II CPU by mounting the pot too tight... I did that twice Also the acetone thing with a pot i didn't seal off corroded the conformal coat on the PCB, which i failed with too because I used acrylic based lol. I guess you live and learn and then get lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 I'm beginning to think i've lost my mojo. Tonight was even worse! At least last time I was getting scores..... didn't even see GT2 tonight, in ANY benchmark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobnova Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Got done with a DICE bench session and didn't want the acetone to corrode the pot (AL/Cu mix), so grabbed it off the chip and dumped it in the toilet. I and most everyone else ususally disposes of liquids and other things in the toilet, so why not -80C acetone? When the acetone hit the poo water, it was like a gyser of toilet water, DICE and freezing acetone, right in the face. Yeah... Did that. Once. Had just cleaned the toilet thankfully. The fun part was getting all the acetone splatters off the floor before they ate a hole in it, while still covered in acetone myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 I get the nasty feeling that I rejected & sold a potentially good card because it appeared to have a hardlimit at 999MHz core.... My mistake? Using nV 300-series drivers..... FAIL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reggiesanchez Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 I waisted at least 100l of ln2 before I figured out my 8800 gtx thermal paste was cracking. Thought it had no cold bug so I was benching it full pot, realized I was doing it wrong and actually has cold bug @ -120 , thats my biggest fail of the year so far, besides super pi 32m that is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted September 12, 2012 Author Share Posted September 12, 2012 Here is someone elses fail. Bought this card on Ebay a few days ago: Yup........The PWM heatsink was held on with blu-tack. I didn't notice until i'd tested the card.... I did wonder what the funny smell was.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Oh that is nasty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sin0822 Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 OMG haha that isthe dumbest thing have ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted October 21, 2012 Author Share Posted October 21, 2012 Oh, bunny OFF *closes eyes* Just......fuck off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
der8auer Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Which card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted October 21, 2012 Author Share Posted October 21, 2012 It was a 9800GT with a faulty vMem circuit.... was prepping it for future Zombie..... Not any more! Some pads are missing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryba AICooling Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Nice one, at least one IC is still on PCB I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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