Third PSU to blow up while playing PoE over the last 7 yrs... Coincidence or not?

Case in point- I play plenty of other games. And I only level up a single character during the course of a league - usually stopped around mapping.. so I don't really play a lot of PoE as well...

BUT my PSU blew up again 2 days ago while I was playing PoE. Loud pop sound. Tripped the entire house. Maybe a coincidence, maybe a curse?!

My 3rd PSU that blew up n died while playing PoE over the 7 or so years of this PC. A Coolermaster (6yrs ago), a FSP (3yrs ago) and now a Seasonic all blew up while I was running PoE. Unbelievable?

Thank god this ASUS military grade TUF motherboard was tough af... protected all the devices...
and the Seasonic was able to tank and absorb all the impact.

But it was a real bummer to install a PSU... all that cable management took almost half a day. =( I know a software is not supposed to impact hardware that way.

Anyone else unlucky with this game? I swear there's something with the programming eating power or calling power from the graphics card suddenly? Fine with every other game though its quite an old pc now. Advice?

edit: to add, I even ran with limited framerate of 60... and its only a ASUS GTX 1060 gpu powered by a 850W Seasonic PSU - this GPU does not eat a lot of power and I swear I do not have too many devices on the PC - 2 HDD + 2 SSDs... I really need this PC to survive until I upgrade when the amd zen 3 processors arrive (in Oct) and around next year. It can't blow up again /pray

well what card of hardware are you running with those PSU's?

Sounds like you are just on the edge of max load for the PSu, and since PoE forces hardware to go to maximum use = maximum power draw, then this could be the case.

Its a powerful 850W Seasonic PSU and I run standard devices with 2 HDDs and 2 SSDs ... only a GTX 1060... nothing fancy.

850W is more than adequate for the devices I'm running.

I'm of the opinion that it is a BIG Coincidence as well... but given that I play a whole lot of other games...

... it left a foul taste in the mouth that it happened not one time... but 3 TIMES!... I really want to support this game so much but I really hope they will look into their code more...

any suggestions?

I'm only gaming on 1080p too.

Games don't blow up your PSU. Power management has nothing to do with any game. Worst case that a game can do is, as in infamous case of Starcraft II, where it burned thousands of GPUs because even with vsync it would constantly draw maximum amount of frames a gpu can put out.

I don't mind people blaming ggg for bad performance when they are running subpar systems that are badly maintained to say the least, but to blame a game, any game - on blowing up a power supply? Do you even know the slightest bit of power management and how it's handled? Because if you did, you wouldn't be blaming a simple game on it, but would rather start trouble shooting your hardware one component at a time. Tho you should of done that after the first burned PSU, so even if you go to any proper hardware tech forum, they will all tell you the same - 3 burned out power supplies means you must have damaged other hardware components as well, you are lucky it still boots at all, so for all anyone knows, you might have damaged your mother board and gpu, and that's the best case scenario.

That is unless you are overexaggerating the 3 PSU thing, which tbh would be some sort of a world record assuming no other hardware was damaged, because power supplies never die alone, if they don't take something with them, they 100% damage something.

Yeah I somehow did not damage the rest of the components. That said they were all branded good PSUs.

This PC is 8 yrs old now... I'm running a i5 3750K processor and a ASUS z77 motherboard from 2012. In fact I'm replying to u now on this system. It runs perfectly fine after I replaced the PSU each time, benchmarked and all. Daily and every single day of the year for most of the day.

FACT- I damaged 3 PSUs all of them while playing PoE!!... shorted circuits or blew up a capacitor or fuse, tripped the entire house each time and couldn't startup again.

So I had replaced 3 PSUs on this system... Between those, I've also upgraded my gpu once, added a couple of SSDs and fixed some case fans issues. Went from Windows 7 to 10... That is all.

I know how to maintain a PC pretty well and I know simple troubleshooting. That's how it lasted 8yrs.

I understand that a piece of software cannot affect a piece of hardware like the PSU that much. But I'm presenting the circumstances to u the way it is.

-- 3 PSUs damaged while playing PoE over 7yrs.

That's why I'm asking whether it is Coincidence or some shoddy programming that could result in that.

I can build and troubleshoot a PC but I only know the most basic about software.

edit: You can also confirm that this PoE account Joined: Dec 28, 2011 and that I don't play a huge amount of PoE... only a tiny bit compared to others every league.

I really do not want to give up on this game. But I never thought that this would be the direction of the game - Piling on one league after another on top of the base game.

All of us know about those Anti-virus softwares that tried to "become better" over the years, added a ton of different components and systems until eventually it became too bulky and unwieldy. Such that users flocked to other AV programs.

This might be the case here.

This HanSoloDK guy tried to justify for GGG on another thread about a ruined SSD...

either he's some associate of GGG or damage control sent by them on these forums to discredit all the effects of the game on our hardware...

Did you swap the power cable every time to the one which came with the PSU instead of re-using the old one?

Yeah of course... I did swap all new cables when I replace with a new PSU.

Theres a chance it would fry all the components if u use an old version of cables and only replace the box.

Thats why it took me half a day each time for the cable management.