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Jesus man you're lucky it didn't kill you too, remember there's enough amps in a computer from the 90s to kill a human stone dead if it decides you're the shortest path to ground. And what the hell kind of power supply costs $300 and needs to come from ebay? Even a Corsair "Holy Fuckballs" 1,200 watt power supply costs less than $300 shipped from Newegg Canada.

 

Also geeksquads full of shit, if you want to see if a motherboard is fine after a blowout like this you easter egg a power supply or, even easier, look for scorch marks and smell to see if the magic smoke got out.


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  Shadowex3 said:
Jesus man you're lucky it didn't kill you too, remember there's enough amps in a computer from the 90s to kill a human stone dead if it decides you're the shortest path to ground. And what the hell kind of power supply costs $300 and needs to come from ebay? Even a Corsair "Holy Fuckballs" 1,200 watt power supply costs less than $300 shipped from Newegg Canada.

 

Also geeksquads full of shit, if you want to see if a motherboard is fine after a blowout like this you easter egg a power supply or, even easier, look for scorch marks and smell to see if the magic smoke got out.

 

it was around 300$. it was a corsair 850watt tx or something like that. bought it a year ago @ 219$ plus like 25$ shipping and like another 25 in duties.

and yes stupid mistake taking it there since it was only the power supply. though i did use a giftcard ive been saving.


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Wow you took it to geek squad. Those guys know crap about computers. And when I used to work for DirecTV at best buy I got to see how all they did was rip people off and tell them shit that had nothing to do with the problems they were having. I mean seriously...do you trust people with your pc that will charge you $129 to install a stick of RAM?


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  Jazzyy said:
I'm now less worried about Geek Squad and the fact you paid $300 for a psu without warranty and then paid $300 for a motherboard. Parts like that haven't cost that much since the 90's bro

 

lol! high end computer parts are expensive

 

 

this is my mobo Amazon.com: ASUS P6X58D Premium - LGA 1366 - X58 - DDR3 - USB 3.0 SATA 6 Gb/s - ATX Motherboard: Electronics

 

im surprised its the same price after like a year.

 

and if it makes you feel better i bought a nvidia gtx 295 for 25$


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  Shadowex3 said:
The point here is he bought it off ebay instead of from Newegg.ca, which means it may well have been a bootleg or defective since Corsair's are notoriously durable and reliable.

yes because it could only be a bootleg if it was a failed powersupply under corsairs name.

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