AWWWEESSOOOOMMMMEEEEE

I am usually annoyed by comments about how shitty hackaday is these days but what the fuck is this? seriously?

a waste

OH BOO HOO AN ATHLON 1400 WHAT A WASTE WAAAHHHH

Materialistic fuckers. This shit is awesome! :D If I knew destruction counted I would have submitted a long time ago ^^

Also, those anons need to gtfo, complaining about an athlon 1400, booo hooo, call the whaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance huh?

Found this videos months before it appeared here.
Not even a hack, and behind. What is this site about anyway?

1.Benchmark it.
Time how long till the fire starts when run at stock clocks, then (with a different identical setup) time it while overclocked.

2.Post results
3.????
4.PROFIT!!

@David Ruger
+1

That’s new ^^^ I didn’t know videos could be embedded here.

I am a complete idiot and I have no idea what i’m talking about.

A few years ago I had some old ECL Chips from the 1970′s, I hooked ‘em up right across 120VAC and they smoked pretty good. Despite the higher voltage and current, it looked just like Physic.dude’s video above.

While we’re on the subject… back in High School I used to like to sharpen both ends of pencils and hook ‘em up across 120VAC, they go pretty good too! Graphite is one of the few materials with a negative resistance coefficient, so the hotter it gets, the hotter it gets (the lower the resistance, the higher the current.)

And don’t get me started about hooking speakers across 120VAC…

Yawn. Fuck you HaD. What a waste.

Resounding outcry?

Yawn, typical internet whining. For those of us who have seven or eight PC’s sitting around, and who’ve saturated the friends and family with refurbs over the years…

It’s pretty soul satisfying to take that one computer that had intrinsic problems, bus timing issues and general bad engineering and totally destroy the piece of junk so no one else has to suffer the indignity of owning it.

Ta ta!!

It does accurately demonstrate the actual NEED of heat sinks and thermal compounds in a way I have never seen before. the follow up post also demonstrate that a hard drive will NOT stop a bullet and therefore will not save your life if you get shot at. not sure how useful the 555 timer was, I figured it couldn’t handle 30 amp pouring through it, but hey, I guess the information is useful to some one.

Love it! Great link.

Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t eh HaD. Never mind, some of us took it as lightly amusing, others saw it as the thin end of the wedge towards youtube cloning. Instead of bitching and moaning you’d think at least one of the many commenters would start their own site covering exactly the niche area they prefer, wouldn’t you?

What a waste of good hardware. I’d pay 100 dollars for an old Athlon like that. Why don’t you vid yourself burning a 100 dollar bill next time! ;)

I have an Athlon… want to buy it from me? its barley 1.2 GHz.

I did some crazy shit to a pentium 1 but nothing funny ever happened, it was snowing outside, and I believe the computer still would of been working.

Pointless and lowbrow. In the comments, meh. On the main page, bleh.

I sure can NOT use this in future :-)
Cool hack …or not at all?

So, as I understand it, potassium chlorate or
KClO3, is supposed to be flammable in the presence of heat and other combustible materials (including dust, or sugar in this case), but there is no mentioning of any potassium in the clip – the guy is using sodium chlorate. Did I miss anything ?

Since when was HaD designated a high brow site? :-) Get over yourselves. If it were every article, sure, but the occasional entertaining explosion is fun.

Not a hack, but a lot of fun to watch. Somehow I like the clip with the 50 cal better :P

To those complaining about hardware being destroyed, as it was said before, some people will pay to see it happen. I personally wouldn’t do it, as I consider it a waste, but other people won’t mind. Remember those sites with people collecting money to destroy an iPod, iPhone, PS3, 360 and Wii? Fun to watch the fanboys cry on launch day, when those dudes took a sledgehammer to the hardware.

@caleb
Seems like this hot topic has become bitter sweet

I thought this site was about being constructive…

seriously this is stupid they probably put an m-80 or fire cracker with something flammable you can see him setting something down and lol something tells me the flash isnt psu