shadeus opened this issue on Feb 23, 2007 ยท 50 posts
Cheers posted Sun, 25 February 2007 at 5:38 AM
After keeping an eye on this thread, I will go with a PSU issue at the moment. PSU's are not only configured for a machine by the hardware that it has to run, but how long it has to run it - usually by hours per day. Many system manufacturers configure the size of the PSU with how long they think the computer will be used in a working day as well as what it has to power. Now if they think it's only going to be used for 8 hours per day for web browsing, word processing etc, but you use it to render 20 hours per day (as an example), then that obviously puts a far higher load on the PSU over an extended time.
It could also be heat - dust is a good insulator of heat. If you smoke by your machine, then that will also shorten the life of components.
Cheers
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