It sux pretty hard. This build was an experiment to see what would happen if I would buy the latest and greatest as all those benchmarking and review sites promote more or less.
I did have a lot of fun with Battlefield 2 and other games... but I am pretty much done with shooters... After playing those for 20 years I simply became too good at it... also having a super computer helps.
I am pretty much completely done with this system/build. It kept dieing for many different reasons.
The case is full with damaged harddisks because of cleaning the dust filters, which were ultimately removed.
I kept the fans on medium speed. This still sucked in a lot of dust. I blew out the dust via breath and that worked after picking out big dust parts with pincet.
If I do rebuild it then I will put the fans on low as a final and last experiment.
If I do buy a new pc in the future it will be a closed PC as much as possible to keep dust out... very low airflow and as much as possible passively cooled and low noise. Even such a PC would not have prevented the stupid usb plug bullshit... I just googled it and it seems I am most definetly not the only one who has now run into this issue it totally sux. Perhaps I will try and get warranty claiming that "USB port design is flawed/error prone" and that I deserve a replacement. Though I don't necessarily want to cause an argument with the webshop... however there are other reasons why I might not do that.
For now the first thing I want to know if the delock device was flawed in it's design and may have caused unnecessary damage.
So both devices could be blamed... both both at the same webshop.
Fo now I just want to know what went wrong and why it killed my motherboard to try and prevent it in the future... a nasty learning experience.
I want to buy a tablet really badly and dump the whole pc idea... unfortunately I cannot because of information stored on harddisks, and the low resources that tables have.
Thx for the tip about USB 3.0 though... I hope it's fixed in USB 3.0...
I will make damn sure that my next motherboard has USB 3.0 and a minimum of plugs that could be plugged wrongly.
Also perhaps I will dump the AMD X2 3800+ processor just in case... 2 of the heatsink's screws broke off when I tried to unscrew it from my chair lazy when the pc was not in front of me but side ways/front towards me as usual.
Apperently PC's are so fragile they require an operation room like churgery ! ;) Anything else and damage is prone to occur ;) That kinda sux.
Bye, Skybuck.