Just blown mine, so need a new one unfortunately, looking to spend around £80...

The machine is used mainly for photo editing and very light gaming. rest of the system:

GA-EQ45M-S2 Mobo
6gb ram
7600gs Graphics card
X-fi Elite sound card
1.5tb storage over 4 disks.

thanks guys!

will

Are you certain it's the CPU? How did you kill it?

I have a Q9550 running at 4ghz, but that may be overkill.

It's either the PSU or the CPU, I've a spare PSU I can test arriving today, so if it is not that then I want to order the CPU asap.

how do you know its not the mobo?

It's none of the above, it just randomly stopped working, I had a fiddle, nothing.

Just stripped it down completely, and rebuilt it component by component and it works.

**** knows what it was!