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Yesterday my Corsair CX750M that I've had for a few years burned out. I went out and bought a new Corsair CX650M but I'm worried that the problem didn't just lie in the power supply. I upgraded my pc about a month ago to a Ryzen 5 2600 and a Mini ITX board from Asus. Is it possible that my new motherboard or any new components could cause this issue? Is there any way I can check without just waiting to see if it happens again?

So about a year or so ago a guy came into the store I work at and asked if we could build his new system for him? We said yes and so he brought in the parts that he had ordered. Now it's not uncommon around this area for college students that want a nice computer but have a budget to go out and order parts to build a system themselves without fully grasping how hard it could be to build the system(Relative to skill and understanding) We normaly charge about one and a half to two hours labor to do a build for a customer depending on the complexity of the build and/or the OS or software that they want loaded. In this guys case(No pun intended) we had to charge two hours labor for the build because... well here's the pictures of his parts off my Instagram Now as you can see that's one heck of a parts list. This is the kind of list I imagine gets made by going on PC Parts Picker and picking close to if not the most expensive parts on a platform. At the time of the build it was the single most expensive system by parts value I had ever worked on. Please forgive my pining for his system specs. Given the point of this post I have no regrets having my system and not his... Okay now that the intro is over, here's the deal. This build was done just as the EVGA 1080FTW ACX Thermal problems came to light and the Mass Recall stuff went down and wouldn't you know it, that's a pair of effected and there for theoretically Faulty 1080's. The customer had just picked the system up the day before the first videos hit YouTube about the situation and I said to myself, "If that guy watches any of this he's going to freak out..." Sure enough about a week later we get a call from the guy asking if he could bring the cards to us so we could take them apart and install the EVGA Thermal Pad Kits for him because he doesn't want to RMA his new cards and risk getting back different faulty cards... Well we said no because we don't want to risk damaging product that we didn't sell(I've taken GPU's apart many times and would do it for my own card in a heart beat but no way am I risking it with a customer part...) when EVGA would cover all the cost of shipping the cards to them to get the pads installed by them. The customer relented and sent the cards to EVGA and all was well until today. Today the customer came in and told me how, after about 6 months, one of the graphics cards had failed. He RMA'd the card and all was well until again just yesterday another GPU failed. Well he thinks it's the GPU given where the magic blue smoke came from. He opted to bring it in so that we could diagnose the problem. If it's just another faulty GPU, the cards have warranties and EVGA is damn good with dealing with RMA's. If it turns out his PSU some how was killing his GPU's, or the Mobo has a fault or what ever the case may be otherwise, then we will be able to diagnose and deal with it for him. This guy spent close to $3,000 on this computer and factoring in GPU values it's worth more now then it was when he built it. I fell for the guy and want to help him out I just hope that his problem is just the GPU. We don't have any PSUs larger then an EVGA 750GQ in stock so if it's a PSU then he's stuck RMA'ing his Corsair unit or waiting for a larger one to be ordered in(It's got a good warranty too so RMA is only logical) If it's the motherboard, well we have an ASUS Prime Z270-A in stock we can drop in that will work, but it will make his ROG Head unit worthless unless he again opts to RMA the motherboard(Again Warranties are nice to have) Well that's the situation all. This guy has himself a beast of a gaming rig and it's had one GPU go out on him in the past year with what looks to be a second(And no I didn't get clarification if this one is the one that came back from EVGA after the first one failed.) What do you all think? Is it going to be the GPU again? Is it something else that's contributing to killing the GPU's? Or is this guy just running some crypto mining in the background of his computer cooking the GPUs? Honestly as he said this failure happens while he was browsing the web and not gaming makes me think he may have been mining via that browser based mining script...

Or used to play it???

Just wondering if anyone else is having this issue, I just got a Cooler Master Quickfire Rapid-I with brown switches. Already 2 LED's have burnt out. The K and the print screen keys. Its only been 3 days since I purchased it. The same thing happened to my Corsair K70 with red switches. Only it took about 3 months for the first to go. But eventually 32 keys burnt out. Corsair wanted me to ship it to them in California. I'm in Canada so shipping was so much that I thought I'd just get a new keyboard, rather than risk the same thing happening to the K70 they sent me back. So I did some research, and decided on brown switches, and a 10 key-less design. Other than the lights burning out the Cooler Master is my favourite keyboard I've ever used. Am I just unlucky? Should I exchange this one for another? Is this a common problem among Mechanical keyboards? What would you guys suggest? Thanks

I purchased the Origin humble bundle and with it I received Burnout Paradise. When I try and use the online features to play with friends it wont let me sign in and when i try and create a new account it tells me that my product code is invalid. On google searching this problem i found that EA had stopped running the servers for the game or something to that effect. I was just wondering if there was a work around, maybe some way that i could host the server myself and let my friends connect to me?

Basically EA has moved 80% of the staff into a new studio to work on other titles so that the remaining 16 members can work on new, unannounced titles. The new studio, Ghost Games UK will from now on be in charge of the Need for Speed franchise effectively leaving Criterion Games with no franchise to work on apart from Burnout however with only 16 people I can't see this turning out to be too good. According to the producer of Need for Speed Rivals, Marcus Nilsson... If EA manages to kill of Criterion Games this way and we will not see any more from the Burnout series I will be very upset What do you guys think about this ?

Yesterday I was playing Burnout Paradise on Steam and closed the game from the inside of the game. The game got stuck and I had to restart the pc, because I couldn't kill the task in the taskmanager. I fired my pc up again played some BF3 and when I closed it after a match it also froze and I had to restart my pc. What could be causing the problems? On steam it is also telling me that I'm still playing Burnout Paradise. Thanks