I was surfing the net, on my desktop AMD PC, and ***ZAP*** the power went off. It smelled like something was burning, and it turned out to be my PSU. Just bad luck...
Mine blew up last year. We've got dodgy electricity here. I ended up buying a Seasonic S12 and it hasn't skipped a beat.
I had a UPS Stabilizer and a SpikeGuard installed. But its still blew... Maybe it was too old. Components go kaput fairly fast these days. 1000W Corsair! Thats really expensive... How about a 500Watt Umax?
A year ago my PSU blew up, gave me quite a shock to hear it explode I'd recommend that you spend a bit more money on a good PSU.
Yeah .. You always need to upgrade ( get a new one ) your PSU ! Don't continue your work if your PSU is already 2 years old Buy a new one and you will not see anything like this again ! I'm changing my PSU every 6 months and this is already 4th year with no problems
That is an interesting view. PCs get outdated pretty quckly, and most people tend to buy new PCs every 2 years or so... So, if you're not really planning to use your old hardware after 3 years of service, you wouldn't bother changing the PSU to protect PC components, unless yu have some very important data...
Thank god it never happened to me but once there was some problem in windows occur but not more than this.