"I've had a catastrophe!"

Deleted member 77746 · 10 Feb 2010 at 12:05

thats some serious hardware burn. dear me.

Faztastic · 10 Feb 2010 at 12:19

just be glad nothing else caught fired. Damn!

BIGBC · 3 Mar 2010 at 23:19

rjkoneill said:
i see the problem...

i think an RMA is out of the question, best get the wallet out...

As it turns out it is the Akasa PSUs fault (sourced from yourselves), not the XFX board at all.

AMG · 4 Mar 2010 at 01:41

I did hear rumors the 780 from them like welling the CPU to it....it was ages ago when I seen it on tomsheardware fourm

still i had a jneatec powersupply unit go puff, that was fun, we thought the mobo died too (abit)

chris.dante · 4 Mar 2010 at 04:32

I've blown up 3 pc's and I 've never seen carnage like that lol

BIGBC · 9 Mar 2010 at 17:04

Well, Akasa PSU replaced via RMA.
New Gigabyte motherboard in place and all is working as normal. Pretty surprised it didnt take any other components with it - guess the XFX board did a better job than you thought rjkoneill

illogik · 9 Mar 2010 at 17:39

Whoa, I've seen PSU's take out mobo's before but never as spectacularly as that...

Good to hear all the other components are still working

chaosquall · 9 Mar 2010 at 17:55

good to hear rma worked happy days

linwelin · 9 Mar 2010 at 18:05

humm crispy heh, well atleast u got it sorted now

Corasik · 9 Mar 2010 at 18:18

I would say its still possible for that mosfet to have overheated, failed, shorted and taken out the PSU, but its one of those "you'll never know" scenarios.

Me, I would probably contact XFX (Yeah I know their RMA department are poor), and quote trading standards "fit for use", and get it replaced.