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should i be worried or could it be damanged? my tx650m tilted and fell on one side when i was handling it, it didn't drop from a height as the height was the same, but the side that tilted and fell to the side did so from the height of the PSU when its on one side until it reached the table top - about 3 or 4 inches.

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Unless you slammed it, it should be fine. Have you seen videos of how postage workers handle packages? A 3-4 inch drop is nothing.

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1 minute ago, leo1798 said:

Unless you slammed it, it should be fine. Have you seen videos of how postage workers handle packages? A 3-4 inch drop is nothing.

I didn't slam it myself but it did kind of make a slamming sound, like if you dropped your keyboard an inch above the table top. Really worried now.

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1 minute ago, 2018amdbuild said:

I didn't slam it myself but it did kind of make a slamming sound, like if you dropped your keyboard an inch above the table top. Really worried now.

Yeah don't be, if you did any serious damage it just won't work

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If it isn't a power supply that was about to fall apart in the first place, then it's completely fine. Power supplies aren't exactly fragile, and I bet you could drop one from 6 feet without it breaking.

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probably fine, computer parts are generally more sturdy than people think. its not like they arent fragile but they can handle a little bit of abuse from my experience

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it is fine, just dont do a howtobasic on it and you'll be fine

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also DO NOT SHAKE WHILE IN USE...

shaking may cause some Rapid Unplanned Dissasembly or RUD for short... and RUD is not a good thing to have happening inside of a PSU, that PSURUD is a bad... i dont know where i'm going with this, ill just end it here.

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even the cheap LC powers, that have fairly poor soldering, can handle rough handling.

 

most components on as PSU is holemounted, not surface mounted, they can take an enormous amount of abuse, poorly Surface mounted parts, can fall off if the board inside the PSU Flexes, but that demands warpage of the enclosure.

 

these components have to live with people, slamming around cases, so they can take way more abuse that you would think. 

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All the power might slosh to one side of the PSU.  Be careful!!!

 

No... You're fine.  PSUs have no "up".

 

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