Need help explaining motherboard failure.

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Anubikk

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Last night I was playing a game and suddenly the computer shuts off. So I run the usual diagnostics , cmos clear, and breadboarding. But when I try and turn her on again sparks fly and smoke rises. What's should I be buying at this point, and what could have caused this?

Msi 970a krait edition
AMD fx 8320
16g ddr3 hyper x fury
Rosewill glacier 500m psu
Msi nvidia gtx 960


Here is what caught fire
 
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aeko97

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The power supply failed to feed enough electricity for your components to work as they are supposed to, so it basicly just failed and "broke down", let's put it this way. I don't know how good or not that power supply is but you should be checking each component of your computer individually at this point to see if anything was damaged or if that was prevented by some feature of the PSU (some of them have great protecting features you know?). I suggest for such a rig, you'd buy a powerful PSU, perhaps a EVGA Super Nova G2 650W Gold Certified.
 
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Anubikk

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I'm not sure what's its called but I've heard people call it the power delivery subsystem. A long double row of black chips. I'm buying a new psu along with a new mobo and decided I might as well upgrade my cpu. The psu is bronze rated I guess I'm just wondering what caused it altogether? Faulty psu?
 
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Anubikk

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Is there any chance the RAM,gpu, and hard drives are still good? When I breadboarded I used a older RAM chip just in case and left the drives out of loop but gpu was slotted in.
 
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