Re: Corsair HX650W faulty?
I believe the little black things are small mosfet transistors and are part of the power regulation on the card.
It could of been the mosfet's that were faulty, why they exploded, but if you've got issues again then it could well be the pus, or the modular cables, are you sure you're plugging in the correct cable into the correct modular socket on the psu?
For testing you can use a multimeter to check the voltages.
Re: Corsair HX650W faulty?
http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/k...oeyHTJ/WTF.png
go into
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/review.../CHX650_11.JPG
(bottom left)
Cant plug it in anywhere else. Just had a thought - Have I missed something and you need to use 2 separate ones (6 pin modular cable) for each 6 pin socket on the gfx?...
I shall dig out the multimeter and check - that didn't occur to me.
I will have a look at the amp label on the psu
Re: Corsair HX650W faulty?
Hi, its voltage you want to check, but might check out OK if no load on circuit, not much load etc ie not that what is required by device etc.
GFX cards seem to want a lot of power, so main thing will be 12v rail/ rails ie if only lower voltage, not going to blow things, things prob won't work thou.
Be strange if psu is delivering 12v, then mobo or GFX card is increasing this ?
Cheers BOB