psu Psu exploded because of Rgb fans.
Everyone's wrong in this post.
The power supply probably failed due to old age, overheating, components inside going outside their specifications.
It's an outdated design inside, with low efficiency (~75-80% efficient) so at high-ish power consumption it runs hot which can affect internal components if the fan isn't pumping air through it.
The power supply can also supply only 360 watts on 12v output, which is used to power components like cpu and gpu.
The video card consumes up around 120 watts, the 5600x can go up to 60-80 watts, and each fan consumes maybe 2-3 watts and the rest is powered from the 5v and 3.3v part of the power supply ... around 2-3w for each stick of 8 GB , 1-2w for each ssd when idle or reading, maybe 5-10w when writing lots of data.
You don't need a 750w power supply, you don't even need a 650w power supply... but the price differences between a 500w and a 600w psu are usually very small.
I'm really late for work so I have to cut this short...
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