2 CPU and 1x brand new mobo dead in the span of 2 months

Crazy-G

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Grettings eavryone
I have for the last to months ran into a massive problem with my pc, mainly it keeps frying the CPU i put in it. My pc was working without a problem untill 2 months ago when it decided to give upp on life.
Well i kinda like my pc so i natruly started the prosess of fixing it. Now when the problem first started it was the ram that seemed to just be failing, although in a manner I have not seen before. The computer all of a sudden did not want to start at all I started going over what it could be and took out all the ram exept one and it started so i stuck em all back in and it started so i ran ram tests but got nothing wrong so i started windows and ran some test and could not find anything wrong with anything. Baffled as i was as to what had happened i started using it as normaly to se what would happend and it ran for about a week and then the same problem the ram had to be moved for it to even start. Now eavry time it would start i would run a ram test and it would alwase have no problem and run fine therfore i thougt maby the mobo was done for. At that point one of the rams just compleatly stops working so i ordered new ones and at the same time i ordered a new mobo just in case. The ram and mobo arrive in the post and i smak them in there and think woohoo my pc is gona work. Sadly that wasent the case a week after this the processor goes poof so i get a new one the and on account of some error i get a AMD FX 8370 i thougt fuck it less heat and geting it changed back would take ages (sadly later realising i bougth a dam water cooler meant for the old one and that it did not have to be that big). Now while wating for a processor i used a old AMD Phenom II X4 965 in the new mobo and it worked fine with the new water cooler and then when the new processor came along I put it in and it worked fine for a while. Next thing came 2 weeks later the mobo light upp red on the processor led on the mobo and it would not start the screen at all. So i tried in the good old Phenom agen and it works so i started thinking whats the chanses of it just being a faulty processor?! 2 days later the phenom dies red led on mobo and so on.... i am now thinking maby theres nothing wrong with the processor and it might be the motherbord so i smak in the trusty old 990fxa and the phenom. That did not work the phenom wasent having it so i put the FX 8370 and it works. now this is where my problem is today that im might be overthinking this but is it safe to even use the pc becos i am starting to think that the PSU is frying shit in my pc on account of it being around 7-8 years old or am i just unlucky and the ram+processor+anothere older processor all died in the span of 2 months AND i am so unlucky that i got a faulty mobo from the store.

so i am wondering what i should do and therefore ask for advise from somewon not as frusterated with it as i am :fou:

Any ideas are welcome :)

CPU: AMD FX 9590 cooled with a noctua NH-D14(changed to AMD FX 8370+coolermaster nepton120 XL)
Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 (changed to a Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0)
GPU: MSI Nvidia Geforce 590
16 GB ddr3 ram 1600mhz (Changed to 2x kingstone fury hyperx 1.5v 1886 mhz)
PSU: Corsair TX850w
and 3 hard drives one being a ssd
 
Normally, I'd guess static discharge during fitting, overheating, or power supply. Given it's an old unit, I'll go with PSU as the first guess (although it is a bit of a tough read being a "block of text", I'm afraid - a few line breaks would help).
 


Basically he's swapped out RAM, mobo, and several CPUs and he's had many of them die. I refuse to believe he hasn't noticed ESD each time he installed something new (anything strong enough to kill a component should pinch you as well), so I'm 99% certain this is a PSU issue.
 

Crazy-G

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its def not a overheating problem and yes i do make sure that there is no static discharge so its not that so i guess it try and resis the urge to use it untill payday and then get a psu and replace the motherbord
 

Agreed. :)


That would be a sensible idea. The EVGA G2/P1/P2/GS are all good, as are the Seasonic, SuperFlower, and XFX (rebadged Seasonic) units, with the EVGA & XFX probably being the best value. :)