Microcenter PC explosion

Quote from macal425:

This is a little known feature within Windows XP. When your wife/significant other searches through your browser history, to see if you have been browsing porn websites, the computer automatically self destructs. Its a pretty cool feature that has saved my marriage countless times over the years (has cost me a small fortune in new PC's however).
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Did you consider Risks wife was HERSELF surfing porn and the consequent heat cooked the machine.
 
Quote from riskarb:

No, it was the PSU that shipped with the unit. I wil say that the mobo looks pretty crispy. I put the nvidia GPU and the 4GB in there. I will salvage the drives, but the thing looks like burnt toast. I can't imagine the RAM surviving the flames and sparks. :eek:
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The Power Supply, although not a very glamorous component inside your computer is one of the most critical. It has 3 rails that support the various componentry of your computer, the 3.3V, 5V, and 12V rail.

Sounds like your increase in drives, video cards, and RAM really put a serious strain on your PSU.

I switched out the PSU in my Dell for just this very same issue.
For what its worth, only PC Power & Cooling in Carlsbad, CA makes OEM replacements for Dell PSU's.

The Turbo Cool 475 by PC Power & Cooling also scored the lowest in emitting heat in a comparison test between 18 PSU's, never getting above 26C.

http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.html?i=1841

http://www.pcpowercooling.com/

:)
 
Quote from riskarb:

Sorry, SWT:

http://www.swt.com/dualo7.html

Running bloomberg, x_trader pro, and some VPN on occasion.
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At the Cbot, I always would have seperate systems for each program. I found with newer computers you can run more than one trading program on each computer no problem. TT used to always say have it on a seperate system. I don't anymore. Good to see I am not the only one. Newer systems have enough horsepower and ram to run a few seperate programs.
 
dell/hp/etc... computers arent meant to have upgraded components in the box... adding graphics cards, memory... all a bad idea for a propritery system.

also, that must be an extremely cheap psu. a 1/2 decent one will have overload protection.
 
Quote from dividend:

dell/hp/etc... computers arent meant to have upgraded components in the box... adding graphics cards, memory... all a bad idea for a propritery system.

also, that must be an extremely cheap psu. a 1/2 decent one will have overload protection.
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Not at all.
That particular Turbo-Cool 475 PSU went for $150.00 back in 2003. All three rails have OV protection and OC protection is listed at 135%

The +5V rail was rated at 32A
The +3.3V rail was rated at 28A
The +12V rail was rated at 26A

The newer Turbo-Cool 510 ATX runs $189.00

It's +5V rail is rated at 40A
The +3.3V rail is rated at 30A
And the +12V rail is rated at 34A

Pretty powerful stuff!
:)
 
Yeah, it was obviously a sub-par PSU. It was going through a death rattle last week, but the PSU wasn't giving me any indications. I thought a bios upgrade was in order, but the mobo is an ECS, and they're notoriously bad mobos. Good riddance, Microcenter.
 
Quote from AltarEgo15:

Not at all.
That particular CPU goes for $150.00

The +5V rail is rated at 32A
The +3.3V rail is rated at 28A
The +12V rail is rated at 26A

All three rails have OV protection and OC protection is listed at 135%
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I think he was referring to my Microcenter garbage.
 
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