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    [SOLVED] 2 PSU capacitor blown after new CPU installation.

    I did some research of what these things are and I could only find one resource that said what they were. Only thing I could find was this blog for "PSU anatomy" that explained what was inside of inside the PSUs. They look like round resistors that you would put on a circuit board. "The two...
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    [SOLVED] 2 PSU capacitor blown after new CPU installation.

    Oof. Quite honestly, I am extremely embarrassed I didn't even think of the chipset on the mobo and the compatibility with the CPU. That definitely will be the source of the issue and will heed your advice of RMA, breadboard and stop taking advice from that friend. Perhaps next time I will use my...
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    [SOLVED] 2 PSU capacitor blown after new CPU installation.

    I have been browsing these forms religiously these past few days to find an answer to what is going on with my PC. ( I will link my PC specs at the bottom) I recently made a purchase of an I7-9700k to upgrade to from an I7-7700k. With that, I also purchased a new CPU cooling fan, the Noctua...