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Is the PSU worth saving?

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I have a gaming rig that's really on it's last legs. USB 3.0 controller died, sound card died, and now the network card looks like it's also bit the dust. I've already put in a usb 3.0 and sound expansion card but I think it's time to call it quites on this old machine and try to salave it as a NAS machine. I'm definately going to throw away the Mobo but I'm wondering if I should salavage the CPU (AMD 6300fx), 32gb DDR3 1600Mhz (non-ecc), and the PSU.  

 

I'm wondering if it was the PSU (Corsair CX600m) that was causing so many components on the Mobo to die. Nothing else died, fans are okay, hard drives are fine, and GPU is running. 

 

Bad power or just triple unlucky on the Mobo?

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This isnt a good unit (though not the worst). Replace if it passed warranty.

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CXM old is pretty bad... but it's probably fine in a basic low end rig, like a facebook machine,

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The CX600M is eh. Shouldn't kill a motherboard.

Also the ASRock 970 Pro3 is very much a crappy motherboard. I had 2 fail. The sound card on one died, and the SATA controller on the other.

 

I wouldn't chuck out the PSU, you can use it as a test PSU.

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19 hours ago, Dw136 said:

I have a gaming rig that's really on it's last legs. USB 3.0 controller died, sound card died, and now the network card looks like it's also bit the dust. I've already put in a usb 3.0 and sound expansion card but I think it's time to call it quites on this old machine and try to salave it as a NAS machine. I'm definately going to throw away the Mobo but I'm wondering if I should salavage the CPU (AMD 6300fx), 32gb DDR3 1600Mhz (non-ecc), and the PSU.  

 

I'm wondering if it was the PSU (Corsair CX600m) that was causing so many components on the Mobo to die. Nothing else died, fans are okay, hard drives are fine, and GPU is running. 

 

Bad power or just triple unlucky on the Mobo?

With most AMD FX prebuilt Systems, you have to expect a really shitty motherboard w/o VRM cooling, sadly. Only a couple (later) Motherboards are actually decent...

 

Anyway, the PSU isn't that great either and not worth using in your next build.

Thanks, 

 

Guess I'll keep the CX600m around to just in case but get a new PSU to throw in. 

No, because wet elecrolytic capacitors, wich are a main component in Switch Mode Power Supplys age chemically over time.

So a "well stored" unit might just explode when you need it.

So it doesn't really make sense either...

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