Does a PSU Always go Out With a Bang?

[turkey3_scratch]

When a PSU dies, does it always end up frying the components or is that a rare occasion? Not that mine is dying at all but just curious.

 

[Gam3r01]

Its fairly rare, but can be more prominent in lower quality models.
My old CX500, which are notorious for low quality capacitors, died silently. One day I'm playing games and my PC shutsdown, I remove my graphics card and it boots up then fails once more. Wouldnt turn on again.

Went out completely silent, no smoke/pops/burning and every component besides it runs to date.

 

[smackers_12]

Not always, a psu on my prebuilt asus did but they may have been to do with a 110v psu being plugged into 240v (Derp). Luckily it didnt fry the rest of the pc.