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A 15-Year-Old 850W PSU From be quiet! Went Up In Smoke Due To Extreme Carelessness; User Plugged Modular PCIe Cables From Different Unit For RX 9070 XT Upgrade

A user blew up his be quiet! power supply unit by mixing modular PCIe cables belonging to another PSU

A high-quality PSU can effortlessly last you for a decade, but one user managed to keep his be quiet! 850W unit chugging along quite nicely while running a GTX 1080 Ti, until it was time to upgrade to AMD’s latest and greatest Radeon RX 9070 XT. One fatal mistake of swapping out components for newer parts is that you never mix modular cables belonging to another power supply, but the user likely didn’t realize what happened, and before he could prevent the catastrophic failure, it was already too late. Not wanting to mess with the “meticulous cable management,” the 15-year-old […]

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