Nooooooooooooo psu gone pop!

Nickolp1974 · 8 Mar 2013 at 13:24

Just turned my pc on and my pc just went bang

its a seasonic x850, bout 5 months old, hope its not killed anything else, gutted

Tazzfalcon · 8 Mar 2013 at 13:26

That's harsh. Hope the rest of your bits are all OK. Seasonic are supposed to be good, hopefully it has decent surge protection or whatever it needs.

dacads · 8 Mar 2013 at 13:26

RMA time ?

Nickolp1974 · 8 Mar 2013 at 13:30

Just tried a different cable, no joy, plugged it straight into mains incase surge protection on my extension kicked in, no hum, nothing, ahhhhh, no pc for the wkend!

Nickolp1974 · 8 Mar 2013 at 14:22

New seasonic 1000w platinum on its way

now just gotta rma this one, really just hope that its protected rest of system

*Rich* · 8 Mar 2013 at 18:58

That's bad, fingers crossed no damage to other parts then.

How long did you have that one?

Nickolp1974 · 8 Mar 2013 at 19:03

Got that end of sept last year, will find out tomorrow if it did any more damage, i hope not.....

Grimley · 8 Mar 2013 at 19:11

It should'nt've done. I had 2 seasonic based PSU's go pop on me (Corsair HX) & both systems carried on as normal after replacements.

Nickolp1974 · 8 Mar 2013 at 19:36

Grimley said:
It should'nt've done. I had 2 seasonic based PSU's go pop on me (Corsair HX) & both systems carried on as normal after replacements.

I do hope thats the case, part of the reason why we pay a little more for them.

dacads · 8 Mar 2013 at 19:45

Is 1000w really necessary?

I also had a Seasonic made Corsair go amiss but luckily there was no pop, were some electronic problems at the accommodation though

Currently running another Seasonic unit although when I RMA the Corsair might sell both and go with a modular

Nickolp1974 · 8 Mar 2013 at 20:05

dacads said:
Is 1000w really necessary? I also had a Seasonic made Corsair go amiss but luckily there was no pop, were some electronic problems at the accommodation though

Currently running another Seasonic unit although when I RMA the Corsair might sell both and go with a modular

1000w necessary, maybe not, but my cpu draws a lot of power when heavily overclocked and if i go cf i should be fine. And theres nothing wrong with moar powahhhh

ViRuS2k · 8 Mar 2013 at 20:14

I had a simlar experiance with my pc power and cooling 910w psu lucky only the psu was damaged speaking of damaged i need to get it rma`s then sold lol its in a cubert at the mo lol, got a pc power and cooling 950w mkII to replace it brand new

Nickolp1974 · 9 Mar 2013 at 11:30

She lives!!!!
new psu in just going through checks

Smoogels · 9 Mar 2013 at 11:32

I would imagine that with good quality PSUs in 90% of cases rest of your computer will be fine if it fails.

*Rich* · 9 Mar 2013 at 12:33

Good to hear it works, nothing destroyed

Nickolp1974 · 9 Mar 2013 at 12:47

*Rich* said:
Good to hear it works, nothing destroyed

Thx rich, nothing destroyed apart from my wallet..... Again!

Something Else · 9 Mar 2013 at 12:55

Heard few seasonic issues recently. Got the same x850 as you had. Hope.mine is ok!

chippy08 · 9 Mar 2013 at 13:04

Have seen seasonic issues as well around the net not too good for how much they cost.

Nickolp1974 · 9 Mar 2013 at 13:05

Yeah been reading about a few failures namely about the model i just bought, there was a faulty batch but that was 9 months ago, so hoping thats past now.

Sure it will be fine mate, they are one of the best in the business.

*Rich* · 9 Mar 2013 at 13:42

Nickolp1974 said:
Thx rich, nothing destroyed apart from my wallet..... Again!

Always the case