>PSU is only 7 years old
>Capacitor explodes and makes a loud pop, smell of plastic burning, quickly pull out power lead. Circuit breaker switched off this part of the house
>Warranty was for 10 years
>luckily had a spare PSU to test and see if everything was fine, nothing was fried
did you replace your PSU yet?
mine is over a decade old i think and i use it daily and it just werks
Back in the day I had an OCZ psu with a 5 year warranty and it died on the 6th year. No wonder the company went under.
I still haven't replaced my PSX.
>7 year old PSU dies
>10 year warranty
You keep your receipts for exactly this kind of thing to harass the manufacturer.
>corsair
surprised it took 7 years and not 2.
I replaced my out-of-warranty EVGA 450 BT with a Be Quiet Pure Power 11 700w, to have a bit more headroom for upgrades and something higher quality since that PSU was pretty much the weakest link left
those OCZ PSU's were just cheap rebranded ones. lot of companies do this.
Should’ve bought with Japanese capacitors
what even causes a capacitor to explode?
usually shitty Chink capacitors which Corsair is known for even on the Platinum/Titanium PSU, not all caps are the same quality and construction and all it takes is a tiny nano crack and pop
>which Corsair is known for
lol I've always heard the exact opposite.
No, I have not replaced the rust-encrusted PSU I got from a crypto farm for $30.
got a great price on a 1000w platinum psu back in 2014 for 90€
works fine still
Pic rel? Because I have had only bad experiences with Corsair hardware. Be it their RAMs or PSUs or even periphery like mice. Everything failed after 2 or 3 years.
should have gotten a seasonic insatead
I've had a different model Corsair. It's fan bearing went bad in a year, they sent a replacement and this one's been going fine for 2 years now.
>corsair
you're lucky your house didn't burn down.
i have 11 year old corsair tx650 that has been in daily use. no problems whatsoever. dont buy random corsair shit. only buy seasonic rebrands
>2013
>bought corsair PSU because it was highly recommended
>would shut down under any load
>return it
>didn't even want a replacement
and that's why story with corsair.
>2009
>bought some shitty coolermaster 650w PSU that I can't even remember the model or any detail of
>3 computer gens later, still works fine
I'll worry about it when it blows up
>only buy seasonic rebrands
Which ones?
Why not just buy Seasonic?