Overclockix 3.7 Released

prostoalex writes "Overclockix 3.7 is released, available via bittorrent. It's a live Linux CD with a bunch of utilities for 'torturing' the PC hardware, hence the name. The authors seem to take a reasonable approach on graphical desktop, cutting out what they consider unnecessary eye candy, but leaving in the tools essential for effective GUI. 'Some new package highlights such as knoppix firewall, vlc, superkaramba, KDE 3.3.1, newer 2.6.7 kernel, NX client, and many more', the site says."

Comments

Torture the computer?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is Windows ME on there?

Re:Torture the computer?

[christopherfinke]

That would be torturing the user, not the computer.

Overclocking damage via software, Possible on PCs?

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Do you remember the good old days? When software configuration had the power to wreak physical havoc on the machine components themselves?

ahhh, I recall a coworker telling me the other day about ancient IBM printers.

"Giant beasts!" they were described as. "Stacks of alternating row color feed paper as tall as a MAN!" he said. He was in school and was waiting in line to print out a program he held in his hands as several hundred punch cards. The woman at the front of the line inserted her cards and set the system running.

Apparently she sent some kind of malformatted instruction, because this printer (which was quite substantial in size itself - computers used to be so much more like washing machines and fridges didn't they :) slowly opened it's mechanical lid and began to shoot paper 10 feet out at amazing velocities.

It took some time for an instructor to get called in to stop the madness, and apparently a good amount of paper had been blown through by that point ¦D

anyhow, the point of my story is a question. is it still possible to wreak havoc on modern PC's via non-bios software instructions? theoretically? without any physical hardware modification?

just curious =)