[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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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.
Definitely a Corsair CX. Quality budget PSU and it's very frequently the least expensive PSU worth spending money on.

The non-modular one is slightly better than the modular one, but I'd take either way before what you have now. While it's unusual for a non-modular version to be superior to a modular version, in this case, the non-modular one was a newer, more highly desired, design.
 
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