Comment Fried CPU? Nooo problem (Score 1) 1352
I tried water-cooling my computer a couple of years back and after a while i got a kink on the waterhose stopping the flow of water. I was sleeping at the time and woke up smelling something burning.
The damage was pretty bad. The CPU was an old Athlon Thunderbird and it seemed to have nearly melted the copper cooler mounted on it. Also the socket was badly charred.
As if that wasn't enough, water was leaking everywhere and the power was still on, meaning the hard drives were running, but the screen had gone blank.
After shutting down the power i removed the damaged cpu and water-cooling, and assumed that the motherboard was dead. As it turned out the motherboard was fine, except for the sensor registering the CPU temp :)
I still use my old Abit motherboard, as well as the graphicscard that was sprayed with water.