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TL;DR anyone have a tip for how I should build my next setup? Also Stories on how you've killed computers
The other day I was in the middle of my last 20 turns of a GalCiv 3 game, and my computer shut off.
>huh, must have gotten fatal error or too much up time
Let it sit for five minutes, starts up again no problem, checked all my drives, checked taskmanager to look for a virus, started my avast scan, within 4 minutes of boot it crashed again. Figured it was overheating, so i opened it up and checked my fans/coolant. Coolant was hot as fuck, fans were fine. Looked at my heat sink. Solid fucking mat of compacted dirt on it. Took it out, cleaned it thoroughly with a toothbrush and my air compressor, put it back together, booted it up after letting it cool down for about 10 minutes. Thing worked fine for about 15 minutes this time, then sudden shutdown. Checked coolant lines, they were cold, and now I have no clue, because I scanned my download folder, my x86 files, and steam/mod folders which are my usual suspects for viruses and nothing came up. So down to my point, my video card is fine, my processor is fine, but I now need to fill out my new computer. I have the GTX960, and a slot for a second card
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Did you check your power supply? What wattage/brand do you have and when did you buy it? PSU sounds like the most likely culprit
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>>62359973
Well luckily my computer fuck ups were always pre-setting it up so nothing else but my motherboards were damaged.
I know someone who browses /g/ so I hope he doesn't pinpoint me out from this
>buy motherboard
>get excited
>open box
>huh a pin is bent
>try to straighten it with a credit card
>no avail, bent more
>take it back
>"yeah sure it shouldn't have happened"
>wait a few days for the new one to come in
>take it home on the train
>get excited open it up then and there on the train like some sperg
>take of CPU cap
>"yess all the pins are fine"
>kinda run my finger around the metal plate because I like the feel
>train rocks
>bend pins
>oh no
>oH NO
>get angry at home, maybe I can fix it with the card trick
>history repeats itself
In the end I just ended up selling it on ebay as a fully working, fresh board with the cap. Someone somewhere bought a faulty motherboard and probably fried their CPU or smthn. I should note I am much better with computers now and haven't bent pins on a board since but that was my experience.
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>>62360076
Thats exactly what I thought. Its a 600 watt Corsair I think, maybe EVGA
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>>62360227
I've been there, I had a brand new monitor and sneezed going up concrete stairs with it under my arm. Slipped and proceeded to bounce down not only the first flight, but the second one too. It was awful
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