PSPkiller Wrote:this reminds me of a frieds computer. he was complaining to me that his computer was really loud and was turning itself off all the time. sounded like it was overheating. so next time i was over his house i had  a look. i took my trusty computer utility belt (an old piece of car seatbelt with holes in it for my pendrive, various screwdrivers and a pair of pliers) and installed speedfan on his computer. speedfan reported  that his cpu was running at 95 degrees idle and 110 degrees load! Holy freaking spoon! Remeber this is an old AMD Athlon XP 2200 at 1.7 Ghz. the heatsink had come loose over the yaers so i squeezed a little thermal goo under the heatsink and popped it back into place. all was fine for a few months until he pgones me to say that it won't turn on.

when i had a look at it,  it turned out that the psu had failed because its fan had seized up. so i sell him and old psu of mine. that lasted about a week before  that blew up as well. by now his parents are a little annoyed at me because they think i have tricked my friend  into buying duff hardware that he  didn't need. so they take the computer down  to PC World and they fit a new psu. that dies as well within a week so they fit a more powerful one. guess what, that died too.

so far that computer has been through 8 500watt psu's! I've told my friend that he seriously needs to think about getting a new computer (he's a bit of a gamer) especially considering its spec and its hungry appetite for psu's, but, all the psu's are being replaced under warranty so he's not paying for it. every weekend they simply load the  computer up into that car and take it down to PC world  to have a new psu fitted. its as routine  as their  weekly shopping trip.