PC Tech Thread

Put it like this, if you fry the new motherboard as a result of experimenting with something you suspect fried your old one... is it likely to be accepted back under warranty?

No?

Don't do it then :)

Bought in 2007 or 2008 so no warranty. I may buy a very cheap PSU and see if it works. Having read up more it seems unlikely that the PSU (a Seasonic, actually) would have taken it out when it went.

The PSU was probably at its limit with that arrangement, go for something in the 650watt+ area... It won't necessarily draw more power either, just get an efficient one, look at seasonic or corsair.

I've had a play with a PSU calculator and it was using well over the 350 watt maximum - at least 400 watts.

Oops.

It's a tribute to Seasonic's quality that it lasted as long as it did.

The new system has an i5, which won't be overclocked, so will actually draw less power overall.

I'm replacing it with a fanless Seasonic 460w, which is going to live at the bottom of the case and chuck it's heat out via convection.

There shouldn't be too much heat though as it has greater than 90% efficiency :)