High end PSU gone in spectacular fashion

It did :lol:

Sometimes you can get used ones dirt cheap, replace the battery and it’s ok.

But to be true, a Back- UPS is better than none, many I know use the 600er backups from apc.

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Well, I'll be damned: Caseking received the package at noon, less than three hours later they contacted me confirming the PSU is gone right through the pearly gates and offered me a full refund. 10/10 service, absolutely satisfied with their efficiency, and I've just ordered again a replacement from them for the same amount of the refund. Good service these days deserves recognition!

And for good measure I've just ordered a good APC surge protector (PMF83VT), although I cannot tell whether the cause of death was a surge or not..

Now the race is on: will it get here before the Reverb does?

all it takes is one piece of dust or hair or dustball making contact in the right spots and *poof*.. which is still probably covered under warranty but in most cases, all it should take is replacing the psu, unless a bad connection inside the rig was the culprit.. in which case you get melted molex like another poster linked regarding his bad cd drive.

Well, I'll be damned: Caseking received the package at noon, less than three hours later they contacted me confirming the PSU is gone right through the pearly gates and offered me a full refund. 10/10 service, absolutely satisfied with their efficiency, and I've just ordered again a replacement from them for the same amount of the refund. Good service these days deserves recognition!

 

And for good measure I've just ordered a good APC surge protector (PMF83VT), although I cannot tell whether the cause of death was a surge or not..

 

Now the race is on: will it get here before the Reverb does?

Ya, Caseking and also Mindfactory are very easy with RMA and such. I cannot say anything bad about those two and Ihavestressed them a lot... giggle :)

It's shitty enough if you have to deal with bad hardware, getting quick and proper help is 1a.

*I always pay those 5€ extra for Gold level support on the order. Well worth it if the shit hits the fan.

I had a Corsair RM1000i go pop on me a year ago. The PSU was only about 3 years old and used well within specifications. Pop happened when switching on. Literally... very loud pop (as loud as a 9mm pistol being fired at 1m range with no ear defenders, so my ears were ringing for a few minutes. Flash of blue light, followed by smoke. PSU dead after that but fortunately it did not damage any of the rest of my components attached to it.

Replacement PSU... I went with EVGA. But to be fair any PSU is only as good as its weakest link and capacitors do sometimes just go pop early. It is just one of those things and one reason why it is worth getting a PSU with a warranty.

I had a Corsair RM1000i go pop on me a year ago. The PSU was only about 3 years old and used well within specifications. Pop happened when switching on. Literally... very loud pop (as loud as a 9mm pistol being fired at 1m range with no ear defenders, so my ears were ringing for a few minutes. Flash of blue light, followed by smoke. PSU dead after that but fortunately it did not damage any of the rest of my components attached to it.

 

Replacement PSU... I went with EVGA. But to be fair any PSU is only as good as its weakest link and capacitors do sometimes just go pop early. It is just one of those things and one reason why it is worth getting a PSU with a warranty.

You just reminded me of a practical joke we used to do to our not-so-attentive electronics teacher in high school: we would invert the electrolytic capacitors in our small assemblies on purpose just before he would test them... I've learnt rather funny cursing over the years, when those things would pop with a loud bang. We would sometimes design the circuit just to be able to pop those 1 or 2 mF beasts

You just reminded me of a practical joke we used to do to our not-so-attentive electronics teacher in high school: we would invert the electrolytic capacitors in our small assemblies on purpose just before he would test them...

We (the students, as I was young) got a bad (worst) grade if something goes pop or a fuse was blown. No matter for what reason.

No negotiations! No merci!

We got a bad (worst) grade if something goes pop or a fuse was blown. No matter for what reason.

No negotiations! No merci!

.. and that's why one should always buy german tech and go to Italy for holydays, never the way around