POP!

NinjaMaestro · 18 Jul 2009 at 14:28

I have been oc'ing my q6600 the past couple of nights. Last night I reached 3.4 with temps of 68 and lower. I ran prime for about a half hour and was shutting it down so I could make some changes in BIOS. It sat with just CPU-Z and Realtemps 64 running for about ten seconds when all of a sudden POP!

:eek:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My woman was sitting right there when it happened. Mix embarassment with shock and what the hell just happened and you'll get a feeling close to the one I experienced last night.

So I remained calm. About five minutes before all of this happened we noticed a plastic smell in and around the computer. Then I remembered someone told me that my new rig would smell like this for a couple of days.

I then put on my Sherlock Holmes Hat and rubbed my chin. The case I bought a year ago was very inexepensive: $50. It came with a 450W PSU. I was just trying to push too much power through that unit. It popped but there was no smoke.

So today during my lunch break I am going to hunt down a good powersupply somewhere in town. I don't want to wait for a delivery as it's the only computer I have besides the one at work and it's not mine.

This is the conclusion I have drawn. If I am wrong please let me know. But if I'm right how big of a PSU should I buy to oc my Q6600? 650?

setter · 18 Jul 2009 at 14:33

A quality 500w psu from a reputable manufacturer such as corsair, bequiet, enermax etc should be fine, just hope that the psu blowing up hasnt taken any other components out with it.

binaryknight · 18 Jul 2009 at 14:53

get a decent brand with good supply on the 12v rails, got a corsair myself after my tagan 480 went pop ironically doing what you were doing.... testing an overclock intel burn test really is a killer!

i went for the 850 which is honestly way overkill in wattage but it has good efficiency and i wanted something with a massive 12v rail

NinjaMaestro · 18 Jul 2009 at 15:18

setter said:
... just hope that the psu blowing up hasnt taken any other components out with it.

Does it normally take other components with it? I think I'll be fine. I hope.

setter · 18 Jul 2009 at 15:22

Sometimes it can happen, more often with poor quality psu's, hopefully the rest of your components will be fine.

Tee Hee Johnson · 18 Jul 2009 at 15:32

/\ As above, hope the PSU popping didnt kill any other components!

A Q6600... id say a good 500-600

800etc would be overkill... whereas 300-400 would be a bit lacking i think

Ninja Please! · 18 Jul 2009 at 16:30

I bet it was the overclock that did it. What kind of PSU was it? 24pin mobo? 8pin cpu? I have seen dell try this many times putting 20pin psu's in 24pin mobos and same with cpu plug...

I'm not suggesting you have a dell....

binaryknight · 18 Jul 2009 at 18:03

in my case i had a decent quality psu but it just hadnt enough juice on the 12v rail and thats the probable reason it went pop fortunately it took nothing else with it so you may be lucky

Geekazoid · 19 Jul 2009 at 00:12

i love it when PSUs

go pop mine old 400w went pop so i took it out of the case calmly went outside and took a **** on it... why???? cos i had to bear 5 months of it screeming away from resistor noise was skint then couldnt afford to buy another lol...

back to topic 550 600 watt should be fine...