Did I break my ram? or my PC?

May 6, 2018
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So I made a pretty big newbie mistake when first "attempting" to overclock my ram from the standard 2133mhz to 3200 due to a poor tutorial I watched on youtube (it was my mistake as well for not reading/watching more tutorials on this... it's my first time overclocking anything), and rather than setting the timings and increasing the voltage, I basically just increased the stock frequency to 3200 and loaded into windows.

Everything was fine until my computer stalled and my motherboard (which has a little lcd screen) was telling me that my cpu temperatures were sky rocketing to 60c...70c then 80c, I proceeded to shut my computer off, boot back into bios and changed all my ram settings to default.

The question is...did I break anything in my computer by doing something stupid like that?
 
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It's unlikely that you broke anything as you didn't recklessly increase the voltage or anything that could cause some real damage like that. However, you should definitely be careful if you plan on overclocking in the future as it can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing (not too say that you don't). Good luck.

jesse13williamson

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May 20, 2018
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It's unlikely that you broke anything as you didn't recklessly increase the voltage or anything that could cause some real damage like that. However, you should definitely be careful if you plan on overclocking in the future as it can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing (not too say that you don't). Good luck.
 
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