MCGA wrote:I've lost components to brown-outs in the past -- before moving to UPSs, but never have I ever had any of my components explode. Is this do to heat?
No actually the other night I was playing a game with the lights off and the window wide open. During these months of the year there are a million moths (especially with the garden being pretty unruly right now) and some inevitably make their way into the room. A particularly big moth kept harassing me and flapping all over my screen (attracted by the LED glow I suppose) and I kept shooing it away. Finally I blew on the moth really hard and it zoomed off to the right and a second or so later I heard a "THUNK" and a grinding noise ... and I realized the moth had flow into my open PC case and been sucked into a fan, and was currently being minced into 1000 pieces. 😐
It made a pretty loud noise and then everything went silent and I lost graphics (no signal). Turns out it was the graphics card fans which killed the moth. And it took the ultimate revenge.
So now I have to use this X1950XTX until my cards arrive, which should be Friday at the very latest (up to 5 working days).
I'm having a spate of bad luck lately. Just a few weeks ago my 27" Asus TN panel started to have a fuzzy picture when first turned on from cold. The more days that went by, the longer the fuzzy picture took to fade out, and then the screen displayed perfectly (until the next time I turned it off). One day, it just didn't lose the fuzzy picture. I read into it, apparently some caps must have failed either on the power board or the mainboard. I'm gonna try to fix it, but I don't even have a soldering iron. So that's on the list to do.
From a GTX970 + 27" 1920x1200 Asus screen to an X1950XTX and an 18.5" Acer. But I can't be sad. It could be worse. I could have been that moth...
Besides I'm currently playing through Return To Castle Wolfenstein and Warcraft III : Frozen Throne. They work fine. After these I'll try to squeeze Dawn Of War in there before the RX's come. Then it's time to buy a soldering iron. Also thinking about buying a 32" TV to use as a backup screen and to watch movies on (especially when the kids want to watch a Disney etc).
I5-2500K @ 4.0Ghz + R9 290 + 8GB DDR3 1333 :: I3-540 @ 4.2 GHZ + 6870 4GB DDR3 2000 :: E6300 @ 2.7 GHZ + 1950XTX 2GB DDR2 800 :: A64 3700 + 1950PRO AGP 2GB DDR400 :: K63+ @ 550MHZ + V2 SLI 256 PC133:: P200 + MYSTIQUE / 3Dfx 128 PC66