Seasonic x series 1050w gold caught fire

NoobCannon · 14 Mar 2017 at 21:25

Well my night just went down the pan.

My trusty psu just expired in a cloud of smoke.

Cant wait to find out what it took with it, am hoping as its a good brand it would have protected the rest of the pc.

Just pulled the top off it and can see where its let the smoke out. Dont really fancy poking around inside

Dont have spare psu here to test the rest of the pc.

NoobCannon · 14 Mar 2017 at 21:39

Need to find an equivalent replacement if anyone got suggestions

pastymuncher · 15 Mar 2017 at 10:17

Any of these will be worthy replacements:-

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x XFX XTS 1000W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply - Black= £157.99
1 x Corsair RM Series RM1000X '80+ Gold' 1000W Modular Power Supply (CP-9020094-UK)= £174.95
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply= £176.99
1 x Super Flower Leadex II 1000W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £179.99
1 x Super Flower Leadex Platinum 1000W Fully Modular "80 Plus Platinum" Power Supply - Black= £189.95
1 x EVGA SuperNova P2 1000W '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply (220-P2-1000-X3)= £199.99

The EVGA and Corsair units have a 10 year warranty. The Superflower Leadex II has 7 years. All the rest have 5 years. Do you really need that much power though? Your Seasonic should have a 5 year warranty which you have probably voided by opening it unless there are no stickers on the screws.

Vish Petrol · 15 Mar 2017 at 10:27

The EVGA is a superflower underneath so I would go with them

JamesM · 15 Mar 2017 at 13:09

I love my Superflower, touch wood it's been trouble free for years.

NoobCannon · 15 Mar 2017 at 14:28

Ordered the superflower 1000watt gold.

Fingers crossed nothing else is dead now

NoobCannon · 15 Mar 2017 at 14:32

pastymuncher said:
The EVGA and Corsair units have a 10 year warranty. The Superflower Leadex II has 7 years. All the rest have 5 years. Do you really need that much power though? Your Seasonic should have a 5 year warranty which you have probably voided by opening it unless there are no stickers on the screws.

Had stickers over the screws unfortunatly. Also id changed out the fan a long time ago.

Re the needed power my system is two heavily clocked 980tis and a ocd 3770k aswell as a whole heap of watercooling etc.

Actually testes how much it was taking from the wall once and it was close to 700watts when benching, better to have a psu that can handle that + extra i think?

Edit:- just found my post on power usage and it was 806 watts from the wall

Armageus · 15 Mar 2017 at 14:33

NoobCannon said:
Ordered the superflower 1000watt gold.

Fingers crossed nothing else is dead now

Hope everything is still ok, but equally interested to find out (as if you believe posts on these forums, cheaper PSUs always explode, and high end units are normally immune to this - Apparently not!)

NoobCannon · 16 Mar 2017 at 17:25

Psu arrived today. Gotta remove and then put my loop back together to remove psu and cables etc and get the new one in.

Then will update thread if the pc still lives

NoobCannon · 16 Mar 2017 at 23:16

She lives

Ran a few benchies just now and no artifacts or any resets etc. Looks like that psu regardless of crapping itself, was worth the money

Was most worried about my 980tis so relieved is an understatement right now.

pastymuncher · 17 Mar 2017 at 10:09

Good news. That's one of the reasons to buy a quality psu. If it goes wrong all the protection systems should cut in to protect other components.