RIP CX650 (mini rant)

[aezakmi]

so last year I got a Corsair CX650 power supply for my sister's build which has a n FX 8350 and a R9 290x card, she doesn't games on it tho but I wanted the PC to work properly and the PSU was enough for it

 

today a few friends came with their ITX rigs to my place, a friend has an ATX and is kind of hard to transport so he used my sis' rig, we all got into Tom Clancy's The Division and started playing, 15 mins into gameplay we hear a loud BANG like a gunshot then an electric buzzz noise, lights dim and the breaker protecting two PCs trips, we see smoke and a small flame coming out of the back of the 290x build so I quickly stood up and disconnected all of the I/O cables as fast as possible and took it out of the room and hit it with the extinguisher

 

not asking for a solution since there isn't one except getting a new PSU, haven't checked the rest of the components yet but the graphics card is most likely dead if something like that happend but I'm highly disappointed with what happened to this unit, 15 minutes under load and literally explodes... what happened to the QC? I mean I kinda know how to deal with electric fires but what if something like this happens to someone who doesn't? that flame could've easily catched a cable or something else to create a bigger fire

 

Couldn't throw a decent LAN party cause of this, guess we'll have to play League now since all there's left is my school laptop that can only run that... F.

[WoodenMarker]

It could've just as likely been a bad graphics card as opposed to the psu. 

[imreloadin]

5 minutes ago, aezakmi said:

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Were any of the components overclocked?

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, aezakmi said:

what happened to the QC?

It has been my experience that quality power supplies, when they die, they fall on their sword, so to speak, and protect the rest of the PC components from failure. The cheap ones happily transfer the overload to the rest of the PC and kiss the whole rig goodbye.

 

Easy way to tell, of course, open it up and look for scorched parts, starting where the PSU connects to the mobo.

You might get lucky and only have to replace the PSU.

 

Good luck.

[Alex Atkin UK]

To be fair this can happen with any electrical device, it doesn't necessarily mean Corsair were negligent here.

 

I'd definitely be writing them a harshly worded letter and I'd hope they offer to compensate for anything damaged.

If it WAS the GPU at fault, I'd have expected the PSU to detect the overload and shut down, not explode.  But if the fault is in the PSU BEFORE the protection circuit, there's not really much they could have done to stop the PSU itself from going nuclear.

[NunoLava1998]

>have CX550M bought 1 year ago also

>no money to buy new PSU

hlep

[aezakmi]

1 hour ago, imreloadin said:

Were any of the components overclocked?

everything stock

 

1 hour ago, WoodenMarker said:

It could've just as likely been a bad graphics card as opposed to the psu. 

Oh I just hope not, that card is pretty decent

[Spotty]

5 hours ago, aezakmi said:

so last year I got a Corsair CX650 power supply

Still under warranty then so you'll be able to get it replaced.
I would recommend plugging in a different power supply in to the system and seeing if it all works, or at least trying the 290X in a different system. If you find anything else is fried you can try and claim compensation through Corsair when you RMA your PSU.

[_Hustler_One_]

13 hours ago, NunoLava1998 said:

>have CX550M bought 1 year ago also

>no money to buy new PSU

hlep

Idk if trading in the current unit for the better one is possible or not, whether you request it directly to corsair or to the retailer. It's worth to try, just to know if it can or not at least.