glad to hear it but i ran some ball park numbers on the Power Supply Calculator and it ended up saying something along the lines of 300watts .thing is your cheapo video card didn't use much power and when you added and gt240 all that changed .
the cheap card maybe used like 20watts .
something like what im\your using atm 8800gtx\9800gtx+\gt240~250 {yes its all the same card more or less}
can pull in close to 100watts depending .
your lucky you didn't fry everything in your computer.
as well when a psu is on its way out all hell brakes lose and its sometimes hard to know what going on but i know my self the min i hear someone talk about global problems on computer "Y" and computer user "g" is using brand "X" generic $15 psu alarm bells go off in my head.
same deal with no name ram.their rated speed and what they can do is often times a lie and and have to manually configure the ram timings in the bios and more or less slow the ram down and or maybe over volt a little to make it stable.
cpu fine no problems their .so its the value chip whatever so is mine .e5200 2500mgz~3915mgz 1.4{bios} after vdrop 1.36v {tested 4300mgz 1.5v}
cheap cases are np .whats the worse that can happen .a plastic part brakes ? whatever .
$40 mobos .
whatever should work fine but expect driver\firmware support to be jack as well as the integrated components to be lame but should do what their meant to ..err more often then not but you get what you pay for .capacitors will probably pop down the road but that takes some time for it to happen.
at lest its not like he psu were all hell brakes lose with lighting bolts flying around the inside of your pc case when it pops.
cheapo hdds .maybe theirs a resion why model "X" is in the bargain bin .id research before buying my self .who knows maybe the make and model has known problems along the lines of the drives die all over the place\bad sector city after 6 mounts of use kind of deal.
btw i read you this on the other post you linked to .cant help but comment on it.
macuser
Besides there is a law (not government law, but like newtons 3rd law) that states "software cannot damage hardware" (not including over-clocking which i do NOT do)
incorrect.
with windows remote desktop and or a trojan\rootkit that gives me 100% control of a computer and or if i was working on a computer i could brake the computer on all most all levels by using software and or software could be made to do the same thing if some one clicked on the 20k .exe
and i can overclock your computer from your desktop as well with out restarting the computer \ going in to the bios settings the old fashion way with the right kind of software.
you see all most everything in the computer has firmware in it .
dvd\cd rom drives have 1k bios\firmware and by forcing a grabbed flash in to the eeprom the device in question dousen't work anymore and because the firmware in question is a different version for different hardware many flashing apps wont allow you to re-flash in the after math .simply put i flash in garbage.
this can be done to most computer hardware in the pc \lan card\sound card\dvd~cd burner\motherboard\video card etc.
as well many computer bios settings can be messed with from a windows \ os level and changing something in their to a setting you know will fry hardware well you know what im saying.
worse still is some one could flash trash firmware in to hardware that trys to make the hardware in question do something that will permanently damage the hardware besides the fact that trying to re-flash in the after math is a bitch some times and the eeprom on many motherboards now is not removable .it use to be on older mobos\hardwere
imho bios setting should be locked out from any os\software and or it shouldn't be possible to flash any hardware firmware with out changing a dip switch or jumper before hand .as well all bios settings should be only stored in a dedicated ram chip for the hardware in question.bios settings should be in read only mode.
once the jumper is on protect mode the bios & cmos settings and eeprom imho should become like rom memory but that's just me.
and imho flashing should only be done in true dos\command line in a single task os environment.
good one micro $oft this ones for you.
http://www.securitytube.net/Internet-Ex ... video.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpsyrfoX8zw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quBCjo2rUZg
part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNoR6VSP ... re=related
part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmtcQIuwBNs
that makes more sense.
and its not just that that really bad about $10 psu but anyways.some people don't care if their computer is unstable or dies after one year i guess.
Ill have to look there as well as Newegg next time. Thanks.
