will my psu work?

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Miskr

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Hello everyone,

Recently, my psu sparked and caused a blackout. Today, I went and got a replacement through warranty,

I was wondering if this new fixed psu will work and not spark, or if the spark could have been caused by a short circuit in my case.

Shortly after the old psu exploded, I plugged my very old 300W psu into my computer and the motherboard lit up, suggesting it works.

Does this mean the cause of the spark was souley something in the psu?

Thanks!
 
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Darkbreeze
The Corsair CX series PSUs are Tier 3 units. Not great, not shitty either. You should not plan to do any serious gaming or overclocking with a CX PSU. They seem to have a pretty high failure rate and might need to be revisited as to whether they deserve to be a Tier 3 PSU or not. Then again, just because every CX I see on here has generally failed isn't that accurate as to their reliability since folks who have working units don't generally come here to post about how it's NOT failing. That being said, I see more CX series PSUs on Tom's with problems than any other series of PSU except maybe the Thermaltake TR2.
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Most likely the PSU was at fault and not another component. As to damage with other hardware, that is impossible to determine without trying. I hope the new PSU is a quality unit of Tier 3 or above, preferably Tier 2b or above, depending on what you use your system for. What is the replacement part's model number and brand. You don't want to install another poor quality PSU in place of one that already failed, and increase the chance of causing further damage if none has been inflicted yet. Here a link to the Tier list so you can determine the quality of your unit versus known reliable ones.:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html
 
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The Corsair CX series PSUs are Tier 3 units. Not great, not shitty either. You should not plan to do any serious gaming or overclocking with a CX PSU. They seem to have a pretty high failure rate and might need to be revisited as to whether they deserve to be a Tier 3 PSU or not. Then again, just because every CX I see on here has generally failed isn't that accurate as to their reliability since folks who have working units don't generally come here to post about how it's NOT failing. That being said, I see more CX series PSUs on Tom's with problems than any other series of PSU except maybe the Thermaltake TR2.
 
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