[SOLVED] Psu literally blew up

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vodliedood

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I hope to God himself that my other PC parts arent damaged. Around 20 minutes ago I just got NFS heat. Game was running fine on 40 fps and I literally saw a spark and heard a quiet bang come out from my pc. My Motherboard is an Asus one I forgot the name of it but it's an LGA 1155 socket. I've got an i5 2400 8 gigs of ddr3 ram in there and an RX 470 as my GPU. My psu is some crappy 500 watt "makki" crap. All I'm wondering if theres a chance that everything but the psu survived. Oh and I think that my psu blew up because I disabled something called an anti surge in the motherboards bios..... yeah.... I mean it was bugging me out shutting off my PC in almost every single game I played. I disabled that like 5 months ago tho. No clue what went wrong today I've literally played cyberpunk with no problems any help would be appreciated
 
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Math Geek
the only way to know is to get a new QUALITY psu and see what happens. it may work or it may not. no way to tell just by looking at it.

we say it 1000 times a day on this forum and many only get the hint when their system blows up. the psu is the heart of the system and trying to cheap out on it, only has one way it will end up. hopefully you've learned the lesson. sucks to be the hard way to learn, but so many refuse to learn any other way.
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the only way to know is to get a new QUALITY psu and see what happens. it may work or it may not. no way to tell just by looking at it.

we say it 1000 times a day on this forum and many only get the hint when their system blows up. the psu is the heart of the system and trying to cheap out on it, only has one way it will end up. hopefully you've learned the lesson. sucks to be the hard way to learn, but so many refuse to learn any other way.
 
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Math Geek said:
the only way to know is to get a new QUALITY psu and see what happens. it may work or it may not. no way to tell just by looking at it.

we say it 1000 times a day on this forum and many only get the hint when their system blows up. the psu is the heart of the system and trying to cheap out on it, only has one way it will end up. hopefully you've learned the lesson. sucks to be the hard way to learn, but so many refuse to learn any other way.
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I got a nice 450 watt gigabyte one. Thankfully my PC booted up without any problems. Never buying crap like this
 
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--SID-- said:
Didn't know Gigabyte has nice 450w psu's
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None that I'm aware of. Most of their 450s are really old, ACBel/Polytech ones of group-regulated design.

OP, your problems could largely be solved by obtaining a good PSU once in stead of a parade of cheap, low-quality PSUs. One would think that one of them giving a warning about what cheap PSUs can do would be enough to dissuade you from another one.
 
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Djoza said:
It could last you 10 years it could last you 10 days,you never know.But you should've asked what psu to buy before you bought the Gigabyte psu.
Also you cant except much for a 50$ psu...
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I think I should point out that my rx 470 is a single fan xfx one. Do I really need to spend THAT much on a psu for a second gen i5
 
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vodliedood said:
I think I should point out that my rx 470 is a single fan xfx one. Do I really need to spend THAT much on a psu for a second gen i5
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The fan barely budges the power consumption.

And it's not just a matter of power consumption, it's build quality. It's not a good PSU; I missed Aris's teardown of it and it doesn't even have proper over-temperature protection set.

If you bought this new, you should still be able to return it.
 
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Zerk2012 said:
So you bought junk, turned off the motherboard safety feature and wonder what all it fried.
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Funny post. 😀

But Asus Anti-Surge isn't really a "safety feature". It's just software. It's not like Asus actually has a surge protector built into the motherboard with a row of MOVs or something. LOL!

if Anti-Surge is on and the PSU blows up on the secondary side, it's still going to take out the motherboard and take "Anti-Surge" with it.
 
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DSzymborski said:
The fan barely budges the power consumption.

And it's not just a matter of power consumption, it's build quality. It's not a good PSU; I missed Aris's teardown of it and it doesn't even have proper over-temperature protection set.

If you bought this new, you should still be able to return it.
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What psu should I buy then?
 
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jonnyguru said:
Funny post. 😀

But Asus Anti-Surge isn't really a "safety feature". It's just software. It's not like Asus actually has a surge protector built into the motherboard with a row of MOVs or something. LOL!

if Anti-Surge is on and the PSU blows up on the secondary side, it's still going to take out the motherboard and take "Anti-Surge" with it.
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I know it's not a true safety feature BUT it was telling him over and over something was wrong so he turned it off.
It could be called a safety feature even though it's software it was detecting problems before the PSU took a crap.
Funny back to ya 😀
 
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