Originally posted here by S3cur|ty4ng31
In one of my advanced security classes I had heard my professor say 'If you try to use any of the stuff were learing on me I will re-act back and fry your motherboard' he was joking I think but it got me thinking and I looked into if that was possible.

It is possible but very difficult and you have to know alot about the hardware of the machine you are attacking but basically you configure the hardware to overclock the cpu by some rediculous amount and eventually it will get so hot chips start sputtering and hardware is damaged.

This may work on AMD chipsets but most newer Intel chips are clock locked and cannot be overclocked. Also, like I said in my earlier post, most mobo's being produced today have thermal protection that will keep the chip from frying itself. I think anybody who says they will "fry your puter" if you mess with them is either joking, or they are l33t.