Fuck my absolute life, we almost wiped the entire fucking neighborhood off the map, you motherfuckers.

So this friend of mine gets rich out of nowhere and builds a top of the line rig. And it has an i9 14900KS inside, right? That shit isn’t even a CPU, it’s a straight up miniature Chernobyl reactor running right in the middle of the room. This dumbass calls me yesterday like, “Bro, why the fuck are we running this CPU at stock speeds? Come over, let’s give it a heavy overclock and absolutely fuck Cinebench up the ass.” Dude, the fucking CPU comes pushed to its absolute limits straight out of the factory, it idles at 65°C, what the fuck are you trying to overclock, you fucking lunatic? The bastard didn’t listen, kept pushing, so I went over to his house.

We sat down in front of the case. This idiot slapped a 360mm AIO liquid cooler on it, thinking that radiator is gonna tame this fucking nuclear missile. We booted into BIOS. This stupid motherfucker opens up the voltage settings, goes “Bro let’s go hardcore,” and cranked the voltage all the way to 1.65V, holy shit. I was like “Bro don’t do it, we’re gonna fry the motherboard,” and he’s like “Shut the fuck up, I got a massive liquid cooler.” What good is your fucking liquid cooler gonna do, the CPU is about to start nuclear fusion in the room, you son of a bitch. We saved the settings and let her rip.

Windows booted up, but Holy Mother of Fuck, the case was vibrating so hard, the fans were spinning so loud you would think an industrial air compressor was running in the middle of the room. I looked through the side panel, the AIO tubes were stretched to their absolute limits, and the fluid inside literally started boiling like a fucking teapot. I swear to God, it was actually bubbling, you could hear it inside the case. We pulled up HWMonitor, it was already at 98°C just sitting on the desktop. Half the cores were already throttling, the CPU was fucking dying. Does this idiot stop? No. He goes “Hold on, let me run a stability test.” The second he clicked Run in Cinebench, time literally fucking froze.

The moment he hit that button, the lights in the room dimmed instantly, the voltage dropped so hard the monitor flickered out and came back. Right then, from outside, we heard a giant CRACK coming straight from the neighborhood transformer. I swear on everything, that rig sucked up the whole neighborhood’s power grid in a single split second. A smell started rising from the case so foul, like you just set fire to a dragon’s asshole, a horrific stench of melted plastic and burnt copper. I screamed “TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF FUCK, WE’RE GONNA BLOW UP!” I’m smashing the power button and the PC won’t shut down, the motherfucking CPU achieved self awareness, fused with the motherboard, and refused to turn off.

Right at that moment, the surge protector plugged into the wall started shooting out sparks and flames, POP POP POP, and the wall instantly turned pitch black, you motherfuckers. As a last resort, I literally flying kicked the main circuit breaker on the wall, flipped every single fuse in the house, and finally cut the power. Right then, another massive BOOM came from outside. The neighborhood transformer gave up the ghost completely, and the entire fucking neighborhood plunged into pitch darkness. You could hear old ladies screaming outside, people pouring into the streets thinking it was a fucking earthquake.

The room was completely full of smoke. Coughing our lungs out, we walked up to the case, took off the side panel, and guess fucking what: that i9 14900KS had literally melted and fused as a single piece into the LGA1700 socket. The motherboard was warped like a flatbread, with a fucking hole burned right through the middle. The pump on the AIO liquid cooler had cracked from the heat, leaking water all over the motherboard and creating a thick, pitch black sludgy mess. Bro, just to get 3 more FPS and a higher score in Cinebench, we almost blew up the gas line and leveled the entire neighborhood. Fire truck sirens are wailing outside, and there we are, standing in a room full of smoke, staring at each other’s stupid faces. Fuck Intel, fuck this CPU, and fuck my friend who pumped that voltage. And that’s my fucking story.