My system is fried and I'd like some help.

GenghisKhanner · Jul 21, 2015

So I recently built my own system:
FX 8320 w212 evo
MSI R9 280
Asrock Fatal1ty Performance 970
Seagate 1tb 7200
Gskills ripjaws 8gb 1600
Thermaltake toughpower 80+Gold Semi modular 750W

And everything has been just fine. Then I upgraded to a MSI R9 390 which performed great, got the drivers in, and have been playing games for about a week. Then 2 nights ago I was playing the witcher 3 maxed out 1080p, and my system just shut off after about an hour of play. I was regularly checking temps with open hardware monitor and my GPU was at max 74c, cpu max 53c and overall everything seemed to be in check. Tried booting up and got no display, no bios even. Yesterday a buddy of mine helped me out and we tested everything. The 390 is good, it worked just fine in his system. The hard drive doesn't even register as even being there, and when we attempted to use his hdd in my system with his psu, nothing happened still but it wiped his hdd to where it also doesn't even show as a blank drive.

My question is, what do you guys think it was? I personally think it was the psu failing and frying everything else, but could it have been the mobo? This only happened when I started playing witcher 3 maxed out which is probably the most taxing thing. I've done video editing in Adobe premiere on it, played CS:GO, Gta5, and done other stuff just fine the past week, but this just ended it. I had no overclock running at the time, and everything was normal. The psu I got has 4/5 rating on newegg and looks fine but after what happened I noticed a few of the bad reviews are claiming they had a similar problem minus being completely fried, they just had a reset. I'm gonna send everything out for RMA and plan on getting a different PSU, but I'm just looking for some insight. This was my first build, did a lot of research and I thought I would be fine. The PSU I'm looking at for a replacement is an EVGA fully modular 1000W 80+gold, I plan on doing Xfire in the future. Also planning on switching to intel as I've seen better performance and like the better temps.

logainofhades · Jul 21, 2015

I would say the PSU was most likely the issue. It sounds like it died, and took some parts with it. To just shut off, that is pretty indicative of a PSU failure.

Darthutos · Jul 21, 2015

Do you have a multimeter?
Regardless, check if the PSU is the problem by using your friend's on your pc.

Use another SATA cables (power and data) if possible to power any HDD. Do not use same cables, as those seem to destroy any HDD you connect them to.

GenghisKhanner · Jul 21, 2015

logainofhades :

The strange part is it still worked, but idk if ill even risk using it without rma. Is thermaltake or similar tiered brands known to be underpowered compared to their claims? I couldn't be using more than 500 watts tops.

GenghisKhanner · Jul 21, 2015

Darthutos :

Yes we did this. We used his corsair 750W and his sata cables and that's when his hdd got wiped. Bios doesn't even display.

Darthutos · Jul 21, 2015

well there you go it's not the power supply itself.
I think your mobo was fried by a surge from your psu. and even though the psu may still work (I wouldn't trust it in my new build though) the damage has been done ie your mobo is now damaged. When your friend used his sata cable, did he plug in to the same port? If so the sata port is definitely broken.

GenghisKhanner · Jul 21, 2015

Darthutos :

We used different ones. Is it normal for mobo's to fry or is that indicative of a lower end. Wondering if I should go with msi or gigabyte, or if asrock is still a good brand.

Darthutos · Jul 21, 2015

ASrock is okay it's basically a lower end asus. the Fatality line should be good.
do not go with msi. I had problems with every single gigabyte board I ever owned but others swear by them so they must be doing something right.

tl;dr if you don't trust asrock anymore, buy an asus or gigabyte.
and get a seasonic psu.

logainofhades · Jul 21, 2015

I don't think your motherboard was necessarily a bad one, I think the PSU damaged it.

tiny voices · Jul 21, 2015

Darthutos :

What are you talking about? ASRock is not a lower end ASUS. They have boards in all the same classes and they are both very good.

I personally do like MSI. Their quality control issues are a thing of the past.

For the PSU Antec, XFX, Seasonic, EVGA (G2,B2,GS) are what you want.

GenghisKhanner · Jul 21, 2015

tiny voices :

Yeah I was planning on evga. First time I've heard that about asrock, doesn't seem right at all because as you said, same price bracket all over. I've heard MSI's lower end is bad, but I was under the impression the gaming series was just fine.

tiny voices · Jul 21, 2015

^Exactly correct.

logainofhades · Jul 21, 2015

Asrock was originally an offshoot of Asus, but separate entities altogether. Low end MSI boards, AMD wise, are generally not very good. Their 970 gaming is pretty nice, though. If my GA-78LMT-USB3, in my AMD rig were to die, that is what I would replace it with.

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