The replacement arrived a couple of days ago while I was on holiday; it's the updated platinum version with lovely flat ribbon cables and another 2 years added to the warranty.

I wrote Seasonic EU an email Sunday afternoon; the reply came within 5 minutes. So far I can't complain.

Everything works with Mummy's PSU plugged in. I was initially gutted to find that the damned thing was 2 years and 6 days old when it finally died. However, Seasonic offers a generous 5 years of warranty for this product, so if the dealer won't help me I should be able to obtain a replacement direct...

I'm in the European Union; this gives me 2 years of warranty. As far as I can remember, no component has yet celebrated its 2nd birthday. Oh, and (single phase) AC is 230 V here. The electrician measured the outlet after replacing the cover and found it nominal. I do wonder how it got hot enough for...

The electrician has cleared my wall outlet of any wrongdoing. I am almost certain that the PSU is at fault. What I don't know is whether it has taken anything with it; I've had none of the strange errors I suffered last time, so maybe this motherboard survived the ordeal. I hope to borrow a PSU and ...

It would appear that the motherboard was not the culprit. Once again I have been suffering inconsistent cold boot failures. Sometimes it would fire up immediately, sometimes there would be a delay (~10 s) between pressing the power button and the first signs of life, sometimes nothing would happen a...

I'll quote myself from earlier: I bought a Sapphire HD7750 Ultimate, favourably reviewed by SPCR . My experience mirrors that of the reviewer - the card never exceeds 70 degrees C. Interestingly, high CPU loads reduce the GPU temperature thanks to peripheral airflow from my top-down CPU cooler. Thes...

Well, it didn't quite go "poof" out of nowhere, but it was obvious that things were going south. Details here.

The motherboard died, so I took the opportunity to upgrade to a Z-series chipset. Browsing the voltage options I noticed that the Asus board defaults to a significantly lover core voltage - over 100 mV less than the old Intel board. I found that an additional -25 mV offset is stable at a 4 GHz core ...

Yes, that must have been it. All was back to normal the first time I fired it up with the new board.

I'm up and running again on a nice Asus P8Z77-M Pro. Will update gallery thread soon.

Update: powering it with a donor PSU (thanks mummy) made no difference. As expected.

Thank you very much for your advice. I don't think I've quite exhausted my list of potential guinea pig PSU donors. I'll keep trying until I find one. Mummy has a compatible PSU in the PC I built her, but she lives an hour away by bus so I'd be depriving her of her PC for several hours. Still, I sho...

Greetings. My main pc is increasingly suffering a variety of problems, and I'm looking for advice on how to positively identify the relevant component(s). Symptoms: Power button occasionally unresponsive after normal shutdown; PSU switch must be cycled. First occurred several months ago, then again ...

Looks like my hopes are confirmed: unlike the half-arsed 140 mm Slip Stream, the 140 mm Glide Stream is a decent fan.

Why was the Kaze Maru not tested at ~550 RPM? I have a pair of them on a Noctua NH-C14 and recognise the tonality and the high-speed humming. I can't comment on the buzzing, it's possible my FD Define Mini hides it. Certainly, they're not brilliant-sounding fans, but in my system they do blend in at...

My 500 rpm Slip Streams are closer to 600 rpm at full speed (somehow SPCR clocked it at only 440 rpm at 12 V), and slowing the intake fans made my system noticeably quieter until they dipped below 500 rpm, but at 7200 rpm your HDD is probably somewhat noisier than mine...

In my experience, the 140 mm Slip Stream fans are not as smooth as the 120 mm versions. I use 120 mm 500 rpm Slip Streams as case fans and a pair of 140 mm PWM Slip Streams on my CPU cooler. Compared at 500 rpm, the larger fan sounds slightly rougher, but both are obviously very quiet at this speed....

They worked with ASUS to create an exclusive firmware for this Bluray burner, which keeps it running at slower than normal speed in most conditions. Now this I like. I find most optical drives hysterical in their response to short read requests, I wouldn't mind them waiting a second or two before s...

From my local hardware dealer the Scythe Big Shuriken 2 Rev.B plus a Slip Stream PWM fan costs more than the NH-L12. The NH-L12 is a much better cooler [...]. The case for the Scythe obviously falls flat on its face if it's not cheaper. Frankly, I can't make sense of the Danish prices. Maybe the ma...

Noctua makes decent top-down coolers, but they are rather expensive. The Scythe Big Shuriken suggestion had me sceptical at first, but it probably is a viable choice. It's super quiet at low speed, but I don't know how much it'll have to spin up to cool that 3570. If it proves too noisy, the slim fa...

Now with gallery.

This system replaces Mummy's old Packard Bell laptop which sucked in every way but one: it was very reliable. This, and extraordinary patience, explains how a computer that worked at a glacial pace the day it was bought managed to celebrate its sixth birthday. Only very recently did the fan develop ...

I might give the other inputs a try. I doubt I'd hear much difference, but that speaks as much against my preference for TOSLINK as for your recommendation of USB (and I still haven't been able to place the speakers the way they were designed to be, either, further mudding the waters). The specs ind...

The case is not the easiest to work with. The PSU obscures most of the space in front of the motherboard, and the board attaches directly to the opposite side panel, so it's difficult to open the case without moving the PSU in relation to the board, complicating cable management. Also, the reset and...

I put this together over the weekend. It's every bit as quiet as my own system, but the noise character is somewhat different. Close up, my system sounds smoother, but its low-frequency whoosh also reaches further; at a distance, Mummy's machine has the edge. With my ear near the PSU vents I hear a ...

The optical connection is electrically isolated from the computer. USB would bypass the on-board sound chip, and I don't want to use the DAC as a sound card.

Edit: new motherboard Pictures of the graphics card: http://imageshack.us/a/img534/7840/imgp1104edits.jpg CPU cooler rotated to fit graphics card. http://imageshack.us/a/img9/669/imgp1105edits.jpg Fanless cooler works very well indeed. http://imageshack.us/a/img707/2627/imgp1106edits.jpg A tightish ...

no case fans! I can't stress that enough, i have already a pretty silent PC and i can hear the goddamned fans spinning at 800rpm (some good noctua). 800 rpm is quite high if you're striving for true silence. My intake fans (120 mm Scythe Slip Stream 500) run at 400 rpm behind a closed case door and...

The controllers are an integrated part of the CPU fans - "Scythe Slip Stream 140 PWM Adjustable VR". They have a PCI bracket fixed midway down the cable with a switch and a knob. The switch changes the fan between PWM and non-PWM mode. In non-PWM mode, the knob adjusts fan voltage. In PWM mode, the ...