Quote from: cypherdoc on October 11, 2013, 04:30:08 PM

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And here is a tip for everyone. You know those two pins you jump to make the PSU work? Do you know what those are used for?

When you press the OFF switch your motherboard opens those two pins, telling the PSU to power everything down safely. That is the only correct way to shut a system down - pull the jumper, then power off the PSU.

If you just flip the PSU switch off, you leave a "whole lot of amerage" suddenly looking for the quickest way to get home. And electrons aren't fussy, if they can find a shorter path across a component instead of thru it, they'll use that. If there are unseen micro droplets of solder on the solder mask that present a shorter path, they'll use that path, carbonizing the solder mask and making it an even BETTER shortcut - resulting in nasty smelling smoke and burned solder mask...

Just flipping the PSU switch to off might not break anything the first time or even 100th time you do it, but eventually you'll pay the price, and the magic smoke gets out. There's a very valid reason why you don't just turn off your computer by yanking the plug out of the wall socket - and flipping the PSU switch is the equivalent of doing that. Do that to your desktop computer a few times and see how well it runs as a result...

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None of this "its the HX850's fault". That model might just be particularly susceptible to this problem... But I have used over 30 HX850s for mining-related functions without a single issue till KnC.

here's another tip.

please be careful when you touch that jumper clip. make sure everything is powered off. in fact, the exposed part of it should be wrapped completely in electrical tape.

the electrical shock these things can put out is enough to kill you so be careful.

Um... no?

The power that goes across the Green>Black pins that you would use for the paperclip trick are very low amperage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FWXgQSokF4
Otherwise... why would corsair advertise it as a safe way to test?