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Power supply blows help

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its4thecolony

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ok guys, so i just sold a msi 4870 1gb video card so someone. a couple of mins ago he just told me his power supply blew up LOL. He as a logisys 600 watt power supply. i was wondering if its the video card or a power supply that caused it. its funny because if u read the past few posts ive made about power supply this sort of answered some of my questions. any ways just wanting to know if its a power supply or the video card.
 
It's the power supply which cannot handle anywhere near its so-called "600W" rating. Logisys is one of a handful of "brands" whose power supply units actually deliver only about 40 percent of their labelled ratings. That so-called "600W" unit actually delivers only about 240W.
 
Yeah, it's definitely his fault for using a piece of crap power supply haha.
 
aZn_plyR said:
Yeah, it's definitely his fault for using a piece of crap power supply haha.
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I hear you. Every time I see or find out someone actually buys one of those really wimpy units masquerading as a "high-power" unit I think "WTF?" Urggh... :mad:
 
PSU blowing up is the PSU's fault. As this sounds like a generic PSU, I would share the conclusion that this was an overload of a very mediocre PSU, and basically just an accident waiting to happen.

It's also hard to say how much a generic PSU can deliver of the promised wattage. A 750 Watt Deer unit would provide 50-100 Watt within spec at most, to then outrageously go out of spec and blow up at around the 400 Watt point. L&C is pretty much the same. Other manufacturers might do a little better.
 
Yeah, the PSU blew up when he attached the HD 4870.
 
That isn't your problem. His PSU could not handle your GPU, which was functioning fine when you had it.
 
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