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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Over the last couple of years I've noticed a lot of EVGA complaints but that's obviously an inordinately high rate of failure.

Bieeardo posted:

I've pulled my PSU (an Antec Earthwatts 650, about three years old) and tested it.

How did you test it?

If a PSU has had heavy use it can start damaging components in that 3-5 year time period.

Bieeardo posted:

My knowledge of electrical engineering might fill the tip of a thimble, but is is possible that an aging monitor could send damaging feedback down the DVI cable?

Theoretically possible but extremely unlikely. Usually when an output like monitor/printer/keyboard/mouse fails it'll disrupt normal POST operation. And output failure of that nature is very uncommon.

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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

I haven't kept up with high-end video cards recently but is this one that has it's own PSU plug? If so, I'd try another PSU at this point.

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