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by Marcus Oryanus
Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:20 pm
Forum: Cases, Power Supplies, and Cooling
Topic: Popping CPU's. Please help, I'm desperate.
Replies: 12
Views: 6585

Re: Popping CPU's. Please help, I'm desperate.

Got the call from Fry's. The bad news is they said that they had ran 3dMark on it and numerous other benchmarks and found nothing, leaving me no concrete explanation and figuring that it must be either the graphics card or the psu. The good news, overwhelmingly so, is that the manager was freakin aw...
by Marcus Oryanus
Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:54 pm
Forum: Cases, Power Supplies, and Cooling
Topic: Popping CPU's. Please help, I'm desperate.
Replies: 12
Views: 6585

Re: Popping CPU's. Please help, I'm desperate.

Thanks for the replies you guys. I've checked out the PSU and it checks out, so that seems to be unlikely. I handed it over to the assholes at Fry's to see if they can't figure out whats going on. I'll keep you posted.
by Marcus Oryanus
Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:09 pm
Forum: Cases, Power Supplies, and Cooling
Topic: Popping CPU's. Please help, I'm desperate.
Replies: 12
Views: 6585

Re: Popping CPU's. Please help, I'm desperate.

I should have been a little more clear, it's an Antec Earthwatt.
by Marcus Oryanus
Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:09 pm
Forum: Cases, Power Supplies, and Cooling
Topic: Popping CPU's. Please help, I'm desperate.
Replies: 12
Views: 6585

Popping CPU's. Please help, I'm desperate.

Hi all, I'm in a bind here and I really need some help. I bought a PNY Geforce GTX 285, Phenom II 920, Asus M3N72-D mobo, an Earthwatts 650w PSU, and a case from Fry's. Since putting it all together I have fried a total of 3 CPU's!!! The first was my old Phenom 9550, so I thought it was probably jus...