Skidmarksdeluxe
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"I've been dealing with PC's since the late 80's, and never seen a PC with a failed PSU that took anything else out with it".Damn you have had some bad luck. I've been dealing with PC's since the late 80's, and never seen a PC with a failed PSU that took anything else out with it. I have seen several failed PSU's. And I've had a few power surges take out a few component without damaging the PSU. In each situation I simply replaced the failed component and was good to go. And the irony here is, I never really have dealt with top quality components.Efficiency isn't my main concern, the data on my hard drives is. I've had 3 catastrophic PSU failures since 1997 where 2 fried all my components and the 3rd killed my cpu, ram and hard drives.
A relative noob eh? I've dealt with PSU failures that have taken out just about everything, even the monitor and left black scorch marks on the case. Back in those days the monitor took power directly from the PSU's a/c pass through. I even saw some young techies who managed to force connect the ATX connector the wrong way around on the mobo, the connector wasn't as obviously keyed as it is today and when switched on the resulting failure was pretty catastrophic.