Agree 100% Don; we're all responsible for our own burn-in these days. Even with so-called "high-end" machines (a Dell rep informed me that my $4000 laptop underwent no burn-in at the factory, because demand was so high it was cheaper for them to crank out as many as possible & just fix the defective ones later. Explicitly forcing the customer to do QA.)
I've never had a CPU fan fail catastrophically before. First time for everything, i guess. And it happened within 72 hours of being switched on, so I can't be too bitter.
I am annoyed about the "china-syndrome" series of mishaps that prevented the computer from shutting down automatically when the bad fan was detected. I guess asking windows + my mobo manufacturer's shutdown utility to work properly is too much to ask 😊
It's a good reminder, though, not to leave new hardware unattended.
