Dead gpu?

[Emsun_90]

Hello everyone! This is my first post so please be gentle. 

 

So I was playing some (bout 2h) Civ VI with a friend and everything went nice and smoothly. We stopped and I left my pc hanging on the desktop for about 2 minutes while I went and got some coffee. I came back to my pc turned off and not starting up anymore with the power button. I checked the power cables and removed the side panel. After pressing the power button I saw mobo lighting up for second before powering off again and some smoke rising from my gpu. I quickly turned psu off and unplugged the cables from the  wall. 

 

Later I took the system to a local shop where they checked that only the gpu is toasted. This is okay for me, that was the oldest part in my system but the thing is I updated my psu a couple of months ago and during the switch I bricked my ssd. I thought it was because I used the old psus cable for the ssd's power (xfx 650w xxx Edition or something like that) and the new corsair psu gave it too much juice or something.

 

Is It possible my new psu is bad and breaking my other parts or are these just weird coincidences? 

 

My system:

 

Win 10 home Edition 64-bit

Asus b450-f gaming 

Ryzen 5 3600 (noctua nh-d15) 

Corsair vengeance 16gb 3200mhz ddr4

Msi gtx 1070 gaming x (dead) 

Corsair rm650x psu (2018 Edition) 

Adata xpg gammix s11 (boot drive) 

Kingston 960gb ssd (storage) 

Fractal r5 with 3x140mm fans

[eeeee1]

a faulty psu will break your parts. i suggest upgrading while i think you should have enough wattage

[Emsun_90]

I mean I did upgrade the psu this year to the corsair one because the xfx one was being insanely loud.

 

After the incident with the older ssd breaking during the swap, there really hasn't been any issues for months until now. 

[Cyracus]

28 minutes ago, Emsun_90 said:

I thought it was because I used the old psus cable for the ssd's power

very bad thing to do, cables are not standardized, doing this often results in fried hardware. Sorry this message is too late for your ssd.
As for the gpu dying it'd be easier to say with a picture of the damage but I'd expect one of the power components on the card just failed because they do that sometimes

[GoldenLag]

32 minutes ago, Emsun_90 said:

I thought it was because I used the old psus cable for the ssd's power (xfx 650w xxx Edition or something like that) and the new corsair psu gave it too much juice or something

You do, and let me make this very clear, use power cables from other powersupplies unless they are very specifically noted as compatible with eachother. 

 

They may not use the same pinout resulting in the potencial instant frying of hardware (if the PSU doesnt kick in protections first)

 

Hence the dead SSD

 

Dont know how the old PSU relates in regulation. Could have been random failure GPU, could also be related. 

[Emsun_90]

Yeah I figured the cables are standarndized, so they go with each other since both were modular psus. Well live and learn on that one. 

 

Well my summer vacation started now and I ordered a rx 5700xt pulse and will be setting that up this week thanks for the quick answers! 

 

Ps. Maybe I'll pop open the old gpu once the insurence company gives their answers and see what kind of damage there is.