Andy Brown

Alright, Thanks alot man. Brilliant website started watching linustechtips recently, lovely community and thanks to everyone that helped out!!

The old one was different. It was a cooler master rs-500-psar-j3

I got the https://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CP-9020102-UK-CX550M-Semi-Modular-Bronze/dp/B01C3FFLZ8/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1462102900&sr=1-1&keywords=cx550m+corsair When connecting everything, I pressed the power on button and the component ignited. When putting in another graphics card that had no connectiong to the PSU the card was working fine.

I am trying to narrow down all the options so when I get a new graphics card, I don't want the same to happen.

That is what I am trying out as the power supply did fail so it could of overcharged the graphics card.

I believe you are correct, I was not in the right frame of mind when the capacitor ignited. After checking now, I see no damage

No

The cable was heated, causing it to melt a little bit however I can not show that due to bad camera quality.

@Godlygamer23 That cable in the picture above was touching here :

Sorry for the bad quality, I am trying my best.

I have a picture here of the damage and the wire type. http://imgur.com/a/5jhSQ Looks like its a wire that connects to a fan

Recently my power supply overheated, this caused something to melt and produce a very bad smell. After ordering a new 550W power supply and wiring up all the connections, when turning on the computer a capacitor decided to ignite, causing a smoke cloud and destroying the graphics card (GTX 760). After reviewing what went wrong and plugging in a 630, the new graphics card worked fine. I do remember a cable was touching the graphics card and the area of damage was the same area where the cable was touching. Was the cable touched the graphics card the issue or was it something else?