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Faulty Power Supply?

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October 2, 2014 6:52:41 PM

I recently moved in to an apartment near my University and I own a gaming PC. Sometimes while playing on it, the PC will shut itself of. Other times it will trip a breaker, and sometimes it will work perfectly fine. Since the PC sometimes turns off without tripping breakers, its probably the power supply, I just wanted to get more people's opinions before I go buy a new one.
Here's my specs:
600W power supply (EVGA 600 B)
GTX 760
2 TB HDD (forget the brand)
240 GB Crucial SDD
AMD A10 Quad-Core processor
Motherboard is Biostar I think

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October 2, 2014 6:56:31 PM

Yeah that's what it sounds like. Shame because that's a decent power supply but they do break on occasion.
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October 2, 2014 7:01:04 PM

Before you buy a new PSU, check the thermal paste on your CPU. I thought that my PSU was dying but it was just air pockets between the CPU and the heatsink causing overheating. Yours doesn't sound like what happened to mine but it can't hurt, paste costs about $5 when a PSU will cost $30 minimum, it's even cheaper if you already have the paste. :) 
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October 2, 2014 7:21:57 PM

Shane501 said:
Before you buy a new PSU, check the thermal paste on your CPU. I thought that my PSU was dying but it was just air pockets between the CPU and the heatsink causing overheating. Yours doesn't sound like what happened to mine but it can't hurt, paste costs about $5 when a PSU will cost $30 minimum, it's even cheaper if you already have the paste. :) 


This is a good idea, heres Tom's link for replacing Thermal compound:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/333968-28-thermal-pas...

But from your description, especially if it is blowing a household circuit breaker, it sounds like a bad PSU. Do you have another psu to try?
If I'm not mistaken that PSU has a 3 year warranty; I would contact EVGA tomorrow morning and start the return processs (RMA).
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October 2, 2014 8:03:43 PM

When you say "trips breakers", do you mean the PSU internal breaker or the breaker for the wall socket circuit that the PSU is plugged into?
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