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I have been working on PC's now for about 5 years.....ran into a few issues and learned from them and moved on....Now that the background is out of the way...
So I was playing Rust earlier and my computer starting making a weird noise.....couldn't locate the source so ignored and went on. After about 10 minutes entire computer shut down. Start it up and it would shut down immediately....PSU?!?!?!?
WELL....who in the room is the idiot that installed his PSU upside down?
*Monolith raises his hand*
With this new case came a movement in my PSU from the top to the bottom...my first time dealing with this configuration so I installed the PSU as I normally would and moved on.
It would seem that installing the PSU so the fan is pulling fresh air directly from the GPU exhaust will quickly burn out a PSU....DUH!
So upgraded my PSU to a Corsair TX650W...much better than my Coolermax 600W....and a valuable lesson learned for a mere $90.
So for all you future PC builders...don't lose confidence if you do something stupid. It's only money and it happens to the best of us LOL
So I was playing Rust earlier and my computer starting making a weird noise.....couldn't locate the source so ignored and went on. After about 10 minutes entire computer shut down. Start it up and it would shut down immediately....PSU?!?!?!?
WELL....who in the room is the idiot that installed his PSU upside down?
*Monolith raises his hand*
With this new case came a movement in my PSU from the top to the bottom...my first time dealing with this configuration so I installed the PSU as I normally would and moved on.
It would seem that installing the PSU so the fan is pulling fresh air directly from the GPU exhaust will quickly burn out a PSU....DUH!
So upgraded my PSU to a Corsair TX650W...much better than my Coolermax 600W....and a valuable lesson learned for a mere $90.
So for all you future PC builders...don't lose confidence if you do something stupid. It's only money and it happens to the best of us LOL