Recently I decided to upgrade my PC (old specks below) with a new motherboard, RAM, and CPU. However I plugged everything on, the motherboard lights came on and no post or video output. Then I went though a checklist on toms hardware and one of the things on that list was to short the green and any neighboring black pins on the 32 pin motherboard cable with the fans plugged in to test the ability of the PSU (Sounds really stupid looking back). However all that happened was my fan lights briefly flashed and nothing, after trying again once more I saw the fame flash of light except this time I saw a little bit of smoke coming from the motherboard which I can only assume was a capacitor, then I immediately turned off the power supply and unplugged it for the night, let it cool off and watched Austin powers because I was feeling rather distraught, then the next day I decided to try and plug back in my previous setup because there was not much on there that I cared about anymore besides the GPU which I left out. Then the same thing happened with brief flash from the fans but then a small bit of smoke. So I feel this gives me good reason to believe it is my PSU, which is weird because it had been working like a champ for quite a bit until I turned off my system to do the part swap. So my new course of action is to hopefully order a new PSU I was thinking thermaltake 500W white certified. However I was just wondering if anyone here thought it would be a better idea to swap out the motherboard, better idea for a new PSU, or if it could potentially be a different part of the systems fault... Thanks!
Previous Build:
i3-4330 (3rd gen I believe)
gtx 1060 3gb
Msi H81M-E33
Adata DDR3 8gb (4x2g) 1330 mHz
Corsair 430w bronze certified
Western Digital 500g disk drive
2tb seagate expansion drive
New Build:
Ryzen 5 1600 af
gtx 1060 3gb
Asus TUF gaming B450M-PLUS motherboard
Corsair Vengence LPX 16g (2x8g) DDR4 2400
Corsair 430w bronze certified
Western Digital 500g disk drive
2tb seagate expansion drive
Link to new PSU idea...open to suggestions :)
https://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Certified-Continuous-cooling-PS-SPD-0500NPCWUS-W/dp/B014W3EM2W/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=Thermaltake+Smart+700W&qid=1589991097&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=bestbudgetcom-20&linkId=4a87ca95f3494438f1f1f76a4e9dc01b&language=en_US
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