by Soraya » Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:01 am
ArrZarr wrote:Soraya wrote:Seems I have the cheap Chinese one!! How very dare they? I paid almost 2 grand for this machine!
Sadly, this is a common trick to cut corners from OEMs. Easy to wow prospective buyers with stats about the CPU and GPU, RAM and disk space but not many people check the PSU to see if it's of a reasonable quality.
As you say, I upgraded all of the parts on the basic model, except the PSU, because I didn't know!
We still don't know what the issue is tho, whether I stressed the GPU, CPU, Mobo, RAM or whatever, it all had the same overheating and shutdown response. Actually, correction, stressing the GPU shutdown the pc, stressing the other components caused a reboot back into Windows.
Thanks, Korch!
I still have a year left on the warranty for the machine. Of course they wanted it packaged as it was delivered to me, like I keep boxes indefinitely! So I had to pay £18 for a full packaging kit which arrived today. It is now safely packed up and ready to be sent back.
Seems I will miss another raid lockout!
[quote="ArrZarr"][quote="Soraya"]Seems I have the cheap Chinese one!! How very dare they? I paid almost 2 grand for this machine! :o [/quote]
Sadly, this is a common trick to cut corners from OEMs. Easy to wow prospective buyers with stats about the CPU and GPU, RAM and disk space but not many people check the PSU to see if it's of a reasonable quality. :([/quote]
As you say, I upgraded all of the parts on the basic model, except the PSU, because I didn't know! :oops: We still don't know what the issue is tho, whether I stressed the GPU, CPU, Mobo, RAM or whatever, it all had the same overheating and shutdown response. Actually, correction, stressing the GPU shutdown the pc, stressing the other components caused a reboot back into Windows.
Thanks, Korch! :) I still have a year left on the warranty for the machine. Of course they wanted it packaged as it was delivered to me, like I keep boxes indefinitely! So I had to pay £18 for a full packaging kit which arrived today. It is now safely packed up and ready to be sent back.
Seems I will miss another raid lockout! :|