My system got burned.
This is a century of computers. Nowdays even a smallest possible thing cannot be done without a computer and its a major tool of information today. I was having a laptop that was given by my company to me, but I want something that would belong to me personally. So, I started studying over the internet for things that I should consider while buying a computer system. Well I like buying things that are ultimate and can do anything and everything possible with the same. I do like gaming but its not the only thing that I like doing. My current laptop has a very simple configurations (Core 2 duo + 2GB Ram + the default Intel video card). This laptop was with me for more than a year and I did nothing to benchmark its power, just normal office stuff, that’s it.
Well for quite a while I was not able to check the progress of the technologies that exist now, and being an enthusiast I want a system that works like wow. So I started searching over the internet for a system that can fulfil my needs. First I thought to go for a branded system. In India I think Dell can only be the one that can fulfil my needs. Althought I tried for lenovo and HP also. But even Dell’s highest configs can’t match what I finally brought and apart fromt that it was still very expensive. Finally, I brought a new system with configs as follows:
- Processor: Intel Core i7 Sandy Brigde 2600K – Unlocked 3.4Ghz (overclockable to 4.8Ghz)
- MotherBoard: ASUS P8P67 Pro – This MotherBoard is meant to overclock processors and run them beyond their capabilities.
- RAM: Corsiar 4GB x 2 (eql. 8GB) – 1600 Mhz
- Graphic Card: ATI Radeon – HD 6850 – MSI Cyclone OC based, 1GB.
- Western Digital 7200rpm – 500GB x 2, over Raid0 Hard Disks.
- A very usual CD/DVD combo recorder cum burner from Sony.
- Internal WiFi Card.
- Cooler Master SMPS – 600watts
- Cooler Master Cabinet – 430.
- Dell 24 inch Full HD Monitor.
- Microsoft Wireless Keyboard and Mouse v2.
- Microtek UPS – 1000watts
The things to look above are basically the Processor, MotherBoard and Graphic Card. They are builing block and they are awesome. The Processor is world ranked #11 and #1 in terms of its Architechture. (Intel Nahelam Architechture). The mother board has all latest technologies USB 3.0, SATA @ 6GBps, Graphical BIOS evolution called UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), SLI/crossfire capable, TPU, EPU, MemOK and much more.
But what about the Headline of this post, says something Burned up.
Well this Saturday, suddenly the video went off and I couldn’t guess the reason for the same, so I opened up the cabinet to see what happening inside, everything was looking fine, except the boot light was ‘red’. Apart from that all fans were working fine, I tried switching up the RAMs and at the end the only viable option that I thought was “READ THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL”. So I started reading it while my computer was On. Just after five minutes the top right part of the MotherBoard (where RAM is placed) started burning. Yes, I am not exaggerating here, it seriously started burning and everything was all smoky. I pulled out the power cable as soon as I saw that. Also tried to pull out things, by that I noticed that the RAM was ‘hot’, very ‘hot’ maybe because the fire took place near it.
Well two good things during this incident were that nothing else (apart from the mother board) was damaged and I had a 3 year warranty with the mother board.
I was shocked, means look at that, bought a damm good computer just 2 weeks ago and it went into flames now. Above all the ASUS customer care said that they will check the degree of burn and will see if its covered under warranty or I have to pay for it.
Will update on what happens next.
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