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Woke up a few days ago to the distinct smell of a blown PSU. PC was dead and wouldn't boot at all. Upon removing the PSU, here's what I found:
As you can see the wires had melted at the modular connector on the PSU, so much so that I couldn't remove the connector, instead it pulled the connector socket from the PSU pins themselves!
This happened in the middle of the night, so I was quite lucky a small fire hadn't started!
I was running a 3570K at stock and a mildly overclocked HD7990 all watercooled. PSU should be plenty powerful enough.
It was bought from an online retailer in October so will definitely be getting RMA'd.
Jim
As you can see the wires had melted at the modular connector on the PSU, so much so that I couldn't remove the connector, instead it pulled the connector socket from the PSU pins themselves!
This happened in the middle of the night, so I was quite lucky a small fire hadn't started!
I was running a 3570K at stock and a mildly overclocked HD7990 all watercooled. PSU should be plenty powerful enough.
It was bought from an online retailer in October so will definitely be getting RMA'd.
Jim