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PSU Just Fried

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I was running a 550w Roswill Arc psu with 2 evga gtx 950s ftw in sli and a amd fx-8320. Well the power at my home went out for a few minutes but after it came back on my pc started rebooting after 5 or so minutes. Did it maybe 5 times and then while I was in the bios just tweaking around I heard a loud pop. Now everything I'm running isn't but maybe 2 weeks old. Everything was highly overclocked and with a psu wattage test I wasn't even pulling a whole 500w from the psu. So I'm pretty positive it didn't fry from my system. So I took it out and opened it up and to my surprise a damn bug had gotten inside and had chewed some of the cables on the inside. Needless to say his guts was everywhere and a transistor was busted. So that is a 60 dollar psu, I believe, gone after 2 weeks. Now in the market for a new one. I'm pretty tech savvy but was just wanting to get a few suggestions before I goto ordering me another one. I'm running 2 gtx 950s in sli so I need enough to cover both cards and everything else. Right now I'm using an old 400 watt psu so no sli. :( First time for everything D:

 

 

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Let's see. About 120 watts + 60 for everything that isn't the GPU + 200 watts for both GPUs. You should only be pulling like 400 watts max so maybe a dodo?

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1 minute ago, JJBtch4EXG said:

I was running a 550w Roswill Arc psu with 2 evga gtx 950s ftw in sli and a amd fx-8320. Well the power at my home went out for a few minutes but after it came back on my pc started rebooting after 5 or so minutes. Did it maybe 5 times and then while I was in the bios just tweaking around I heard a loud pop. Now everything I'm running isn't but maybe 2 weeks old. Everything was highly overclocked and with a psu wattage test I wasn't even pulling a whole 500w from the psu. So I'm pretty positive it didn't fry from my system. So I took it out and opened it up and to my surprise a damn bug had gotten inside and had chewed some of the cables on the inside. Needless to say his guts was everywhere and a transistor was busted. So that is a 60 dollar psu, I believe, gone after 2 weeks. Now in the market for a new one. I'm pretty tech savvy but was just wanting to get a few suggestions before I goto ordering me another one. I'm running 2 gtx 950s in sli so I need enough to cover both cards and everything else. Right now I'm using an old 400 watt psu so no sli. :( First time for everything D:

An EVGA 650Q GQ or 750W B2 has plenty of wattage and can usually be found for not crazy amounts of money.

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8 minutes ago, JJBtch4EXG said:

I was running a 550w Roswill Arc psu with 2 evga gtx 950s ftw in sli and a amd fx-8320. Well the power at my home went out for a few minutes but after it came back on my pc started rebooting after 5 or so minutes. Did it maybe 5 times and then while I was in the bios just tweaking around I heard a loud pop. Now everything I'm running isn't but maybe 2 weeks old. Everything was highly overclocked and with a psu wattage test I wasn't even pulling a whole 500w from the psu. So I'm pretty positive it didn't fry from my system. So I took it out and opened it up and to my surprise a damn bug had gotten inside and had chewed some of the cables on the inside. Needless to say his guts was everywhere and a transistor was busted. So that is a 60 dollar psu, I believe, gone after 2 weeks. Now in the market for a new one. I'm pretty tech savvy but was just wanting to get a few suggestions before I goto ordering me another one. I'm running 2 gtx 950s in sli so I need enough to cover both cards and everything else. Right now I'm using an old 400 watt psu so no sli. :( First time for everything D:

why 950's in sli ?

 

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5 minutes ago, JJBtch4EXG said:

Why not? Had to spread out funds and yes I know a single card would've been a better choice but these 2 gpus just look awesome to me and its different. For me any ways. They perform flawlessly.

Good a reason as any. More power to ya :D

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