So, last night after work I thought I'd fire up Elite: Dangerous and have a blast blowing things up for an hour or so. Reboot my machine into Windows (yuck, but needs must), start loading the game and go away for 10 minutes to feed the dogs.
Come back, and...the monitors are blank, and there's a distinct smell of burning silicon.
The closed-loop water cooler had died, thus frying the CPU, motherboard, new graphics card, power supply and probably the RAM as well. The disks seem to be OK (and I have obsessive backups anyway). All in all, about £700 of damage.
The best part? Wifey had removed the accidental damage upgrade from the insurance when she renewed it two months ago.
Currently typing this on my little Lenovo Yoga 2 laptop. It seemed like a bit of an extravagance when I bought it from
@Sporky a few months ago...now it's the only way I can get any work done
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Yeah, it's a total shit. Especially since I've only just splurged on an upgraded graphics card :P
Years ago when I had a water cooled PC I was playing Battlefield 2 when things started to slow down and get unstable. I had a temperature monitor on my desk which was showing 100C which was shortly followed by the smell of burning thermal paste. Turns out the pump had failed to start. Thankfully there was no damage at the time.
My amp is still dead, and I broke a string a couple of days ago. I want to raise my action slightly and don't have time to do that before I go on holiday, so have had to play my Epiphone Les Paul Special II for the past few days with strings that haven't been changed since November.
OK, not as bad as your PC problems, but trying to make you feel better..
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There is no reason why you couldn't advertise by saying it's a warranty replacement as the last one failed and you wouldn't trust putting another in your pc.
I dunno the going rate on a cooler but your troubles must be worth a bottle of wine or two!
I'm not promoting scamming or anything of thr sorts!