Add me to that list. Somewhere after 3 1/2 years or so of good use on this crappy celeron 466 I had in the day the power supply decided to up and have the fan freeze up, yet still spun the motor so I had no idea. The stupid thing overheated and when it died it took down the board, cpu, ram sticks, video card, basically everything but the removable drives (hdd, cd, floppy.) That really ticked me off and it wasn't even a 'cheap' one really just not a big end one either but suited well the parts.marurun wrote:I have lost two PCs to power supplies dying. DO NOT buy a cheap PSU, ever. A cheap case can still hold your parts. A cheap mobo or GPU may die, but can be easily replaced. A cheap PSU is the part most likely to take other stuff out with it when it dies.Hobie-wan wrote:Power supply. If you have one that's providing shitty power it can cause everything to be flaky, not work at all, or blow up. I'm speaking from experience for the latter which cost me a motherboard once.
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GSZX1337 -- That statement you started on I agree, and it's why I voted on the GPU. I mulled it over for a good month when I got this computer if i would take the added funds into a marginally nicer i7 cpu or i'd go with the nvidia 980 video chip. The price involved versus performance the gpu was the better decision as the other can be boosted later for a nice performance bump along with the ram too.