Guys?
It finally happened. After 6 hours of not using the air-conditioning, my primary workstation suffered a big burnout(to put it lightly). I'm not sure whether it's a capacitor meltdown, a power supply blowout, or a processor overheat, but it quit all of a sudden, it sure smells, and even the casing is too hot to touch for more than afew seconds.

You'd think having 10 fans and spending 90 bucks on a qaud-heatpipe cooler stack would help, but without air-conditioning, it's fried wood.

Details will come in soon once the computer cools down enough to touch and analyse, courtesy of my secondary workstation.

Meanwhile, for those people suffering 40-degree plus weather, don't even try turning off your air-conditioning.

Results of power-up:

First attempt, Failed. All fans turned on, but BIOS did not boot.
Second attempt (reset button), Failed. Same as above.
Third attempt, off-and-on, reconnect overheating hard drive, passed.

Power supply and U-PLUS DPS power regulator are functioning.
All fans, etc, functioning.
Smell still present.
Core temperature with WCG: 58 degrees with a/c. Suspected over 65 without a/c.
Core temperature w/out WCG: 40, and still falling.

All voltage readings except VCore are *too low*, except for the case of -12 rail, too high. Could have some capacitor/short-circuit somewhere that could have been the cuase of the burnout.

Will try checking the problem hdd and rewire SATA.

In seperate news: Secondary workstation network failed. Am posting this on primary workstation.

It's actually an automatic overclock. The higher the load, the higher it overclocks, to a maximum of 25%, but I limited it to 10%. It suppossed to stop overclocking when the temperature goes too high, or the VCore voltage goes too low. The highest it goes is 3.3 Ghz form 3.0 Ghz, or $110 of extra value. But I can literally crank up to 4 if I override it manually. Of course, then I'd have a severe overheat problem, so I don't do it, never dared.

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