Thanks for that. I had visions of spending yet more money which over the last week has been hemorrhaging at a phenomenal rate
Yes Ben.. I looked up pwr consumption for the 8800GTX and that drinks 220w at idle and 315w under load although wiki gives 155w.. yeh!

I admit I don't like coincidences and fitting the 560ti one evening and finding the PSU dead two mornings later did raise the odd alarm bell. I think the PSU had already started to fail though why, I couldn't say. When I realised the DVDR was on it's last legs.. which it had been for some time and I never bothered to replace it.. the drawer didn't like opening and when it did, the reader didn't like to read!.. putting a known working unit in and finding it didn't even power, not off any of the 4-pin peripheral plugs.. I suspected something was amiss. I put the DVDR (the old one) back into the XP2400 and it works like a good 'un. The new(er) one was sata and ran off the same sort of socket as you find on sata devices so that part of the supply was still working but to what degree I don't know.
The test Corsair suggest which is at the crux of any return is to put a paper clip across two specific plugs on the 20-pin connector. If the fan works, it's ok. If it fails, you hit the 'failed pin test' button and it takes you to the RMA section. I'm still getting pwr of sorts off the 20-pin connector but JS off the PCIe plugs, the CPU plug or any of the 4-pin peripheral plugs so something definitely aint right. They've still not got back to me so I think I'm going to have to wing it through the paper clip test (I'll say I have) and take it from there.
Incidentally, I flashed FS9 up on the XP3200 last night (this pc with a brand new PSU) and I couldn't believe how slow it all ran. Did I really use this??
ATB
DaveB
