Cheap PSU took down the GPU with it?

[Ranjith Shenoy]

Hello everyone. A month ago, I bought an Asus GTX 750 OC edition and a local 550watt psu. I was playing around with the overclocking settings of the gpu and everything was fine till yesterday when I switched on the pc and there was a spark in the psu and the system went dead. I immediatedly checked the psu and found it hot and having a burnt smell. Luckly it dint take any other component with it. So today I decided to not cheap out on the psu and bought a Corsair VS 450watt and a 120mm Cooler Master fan. After installing everything, I tried running BF 3 and Crysis 3. Previously I was able to run both the games smoothly at 720p with High setting. But today, the graphics in Crysis 3 were so bad that it looked like it was a game made in the year 2000! I mean the graphics were so terrible that there was no proper details and everything looked blurry. The BF 3 had proper graphics like before but kept lagging in random places. So do u think the old psu took the gpu with it? And is it possible to submit the gpu for a warranty check? Please help.





Thank you.

 

[unknownofprob]

When cheap power supplies blow up they tend to throw dangerously high voltages through your system which can destroy components or seriously damage them. Overclocking with a cheap power supply was not the smartest of things to do either with a cheap power supply, and doing so would have been the factor. Your system sounds to be effected by this case, and it may not come cheap.

You will have to go to a PC/Repair shop and get your computer tested, it may be one thing or many things. We just can't pinpoint exactly what is wrong.

You could try warranty, but in issues like this it isn't accepted unless you lie.

Make this a lesson to not buy cheap power supplies.

 

[Ranjith Shenoy]

When cheap power supplies blow up they tend to throw dangerously high voltages through your system which can destroy components or seriously damage them. Overclocking with a cheap power supply was not the smartest of things to do either with a cheap power supply, and doing so would have been the factor. Your system sounds to be effected by this case, and it may not come cheap.

You will have to go to a PC/Repair shop and get your computer tested, it may be one thing or many things. We just can't pinpoint exactly what is wrong.

You could try warranty, but in issues like this it isn't accepted unless you lie.

Make this a lesson to not buy cheap power supplies.

I know it was stupid to buy a cheap psu just cause i cudnt wait a few days as the store I bought the gpu was closed. Also I'm pretty sure its only the gpu tats damaged as I tried using the other components in a friend's PC and they worked fine.

 

[unknownofprob]

Did you try the graphics card as well?

I would try and replace the card, by the sounds of it you'll need to.

 

[Ranjith Shenoy]

Yeah I tried the gpu too and it gave the same results as I'm experiencing now. At that time I thought the low performance was due to conflicting drivers(my friend uses a HD 7750 and I installed the nVidia drivers without removing the amd ones) but when I tested it on my pc after replacing the psu, it was evident tat the gpu was damaged.

 

[unknownofprob]

Nothing much else we can do from the situation, you'll have to attempt to replace the graphics card. Good luck and all the best.

Unknownofprob.

 

[Ranjith Shenoy]

Can u tell me the chances of RMA? I had an old GT 210 from Galaxy that was damaged due to over voltage a year ago and the company replaced it tat time.

 

[unknownofprob]

chance are unknown. Your going to have to 'lie' about it.

 

[Ranjith Shenoy]

Ok. Thank you.

 

[unknownofprob]

no problem, Glad to have helped.

don't forget to close down the thread before you leave it. helps users to know your issue is solved.

 

[Ranjith Shenoy]

I'm sorry, I'm new here so cud u please tell me how to close the thread?

 

[unknownofprob]

Closing the thread just means selecting best answer.

 

[Ranjith Shenoy]

Nothing much else we can do from the situation, you'll have to attempt to replace the graphics card. Good luck and all the best.

Unknownofprob.

Closing the thread just means selecting best answer.

Im sorry, I cant figure out how to do it.

 

[unknownofprob]

green button within a post. "Pick as the solution"