Or maybe they purposely designed them to fry shortly after the warranty was up, to sell more units.
Oh, and they are proprietary systems, not standard ATX, so the motherboard screw holes won't line up with ATX boards and the front panel connections are all in one Dell connector, so forget about repairs/upgrades.Īll the boards, chipsets, and CPUs ran hot in the P4 era, and they all knew it, but still designed millions of machines with little or no airflow, probably because fan technology was crude then and people wanted quiet PCs. So he gave me a GX520 to replace it, and it runs better, but the hard drive overheats when writing a lot of data - the case design is garbage, the only fans are the CPU fan and the power supply fan, there's literally no airflow to the hard drives or motherboard. They were before their time though.I just bought a GX620 for an auto shop computer and it burnt up in one night of idling, the south bridge was smoking hot, and no video output ever again.
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