My BF’s 2nd PSU blew up. Was his system under powered?

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FoxKitsune

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So I built my BF his first gaming rig just over a year ago and this is the second time the power supply blew. The first one was a 80+ Corsair PSU that lasted a couple months (that ironically blew right when he destroyed Glados in the first Portal) and the second one was an 80+ EVGA PSU that lasted almost a year before it blew last night. I forget what the Corsair one was but the EVGA was 600W which all his friends are saying that the PSU wasn’t strong enough to power his system which lead to it blowing.

Here’s his specs:

- Gigabyte X170 Gaming 3 motherboard
- intel i5-6600K @ Stock on air
- ASUS Dual Fan GTX 1060 6GB w/ GPU Turboboost 3.0 doing all the self overclocking
- 16GB (2x8GB) Crucial Ballistix RAM (I forget the speed but it’s probably 2400)
- SSD Boot Drive
- HDD for games and other stuff
- Windows 10
- 3 or 4 case fans (not home as i’m typing this so I don’t remember)
- He’s on it pretty much from the time he wakes up to the time he goes to bed so it’s always under some kind of load; usually gaming.

Does he need a bigger PSU? To my understanding those components shouldn’t even be pulling more than 600W.
 
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therealduckofdeath
A decent 400W wouldn't have any problems with that set up, so 600W is more than enough. (I have a faint suspicion than Nvidia recommends something around 400W if you're running a GTX 1060 with a Core i7)
600+ W power supplies are more for people with more than one GPU, a crazy big GPU, or motherboards with more than one processor. It is a lot of power. Like, cook your dinner in 3 minutes in a micro amount of power. :D
Maybe check your electricity? There could be a lot of spiking or uneven power in your house? Also, check if anything in your PC is acting strange, either crashing in Windows or making mechanical or electrical noise.
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using a power surge protector? ups?
 
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600W is more than enough for what he's running. 400-450W would probably cut it. Problem sounds more like either quality of the PSU or something in your home electrical system. (How's the airflow around the machine - specifically for the PSU?)
 
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A decent 400W wouldn't have any problems with that set up, so 600W is more than enough. (I have a faint suspicion than Nvidia recommends something around 400W if you're running a GTX 1060 with a Core i7)
600+ W power supplies are more for people with more than one GPU, a crazy big GPU, or motherboards with more than one processor. It is a lot of power. Like, cook your dinner in 3 minutes in a micro amount of power. :D
Maybe check your electricity? There could be a lot of spiking or uneven power in your house? Also, check if anything in your PC is acting strange, either crashing in Windows or making mechanical or electrical noise.
 
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