Fried beige computer

Got home Wednesday night and my computer was dead silent. Long story short, the motherboard is fried. The same transistor that toasted on the previous unit went on this one.

I'm 2 weeks past warranty, so I just bought a new one. It's cheap, it's light on the flash & features, but I needed something, and I wasn't about to risk using the same model as I've already burned twice

What I really don't get is that in 6 years, I had 3 PCs and only ever had 2 problems - a bad hard drive that was partly my fault, and a dust-clogged PSU burning out. And now, in the last year with this new PC, I've lost 2 motherboards.

My next computer I expect to be much better behaved.