What did you expect them to say??  "Yea, our PSU damaged your Classified".....LOL.

The Silverstone Strider Plus 1200W is not very good and they have horrible customer service... get another TPQ 1200 from RMA.  Anyway what happened to you sucks... ASUS has fine boards anyway so you should be happy.

donta1979

krazyatom

I love my EVGA B-Stock motherboard!

GL on your bstock motherboard hope you dont have high end 400 series in it, otherwise you will eventually run into what I have... aka moelted placstic in the 24 pin slots and a ruined psu that you cannot rma because its not the psu's fault but a defect with EVGA's older x58 line...

mine is 758, so it's high end :)

Sorry to hear about your issue.   I beleive ASUS rampage III is nice  board, which i'm planning to buy next.

from what i read on the link you posted Donta of it happending to other people, it looks like Antec did RMA the psu's for people with that issue.  Ide hate to see you out of an expensive PSU especially 2 of them.  Man and you just finished your blackbird build not too long ago either. 

Antec has accepted my request for RMA.  They will accept yours as well without issues so do not worry.

I would have a hard time calling it a defect, considering the boards you are mentioning came out before the 400 series cards were released, That would be like saying a Ford model A has a defect, because it didn't have seatbelts, when seat belts, and  saftey galss, was not introduced untill 1948, and were not compulsary untill Austrilia made it a law , in 1964, the rest of europe in 1965, and the US in 1967.  Is the IBM Xt defeacive , because it did not have a DVD player , Or USB ports ?  

KMoore4318

I would have a hard time calling it a defect, considering the boards you are mentioning came out before the 400 series cards were released, That would be like saying a Ford model A has a defect, because it didn't have seatbelts, when seat belts, and  saftey galss, was not introduced untill 1948, and were not compulsary untill Austrilia made it a law , in 1964, the rest of europe in 1965, and the US in 1967.  Is the IBM Xt defeacive , because it did not have a DVD player , Or USB ports ?  

well the other board makers that included this extra power pin back then when this board came out that do not have this issue, I would call it a defect and a real issue. Also would explain why the 760 is eol and replaced with the 770 does it not? only upgrades are usb 3, sata 6 and of course the extra power connector on the board to keep this sort of thing from happening. A known defect shamino reported with some high power consumption ati cards awhile ago. So your post is flawed because its been here for awhile the 759/760 boards and this issue of higher power conumption cards burning the 24 pins now its just NVIDIA cards that have been added to the list of ATI's. Stuff happens yes, who could had forseen this kind of thing happening? But the ati cards causing the issue should had been the red light for alarm tbh.

What type of bios you were using when this happened, Donta? I would like to know and your help will be appreciated

On the phone with tech support, states that they know it is a problem, but cannot do anything about it. It is just a wait and see. They will not do anything to fix this issue.  I think this problem need to be put out there. It is like driving your car when you know it is has a problem, but you drive it anyway. When it blows it is then your problem because you knew it was an issue. So I either return my 480's or buy a different board so I don't have to worry about my system going up in smoke. I know Evga is better then this. But they refused to do anything about it unless your system go up in smoke. I have replaced two power supplies myself, I cannot afford to  lose my system, so I guess it off to fine a new motherboard.

EVGA_JacobF

This issue is not related to the specific motherboard, if you search around, you will find others that are not specific to EVGA.
http://www.overclockers.c...howthread.php?t=651336
http://www.xtremesystems....ead.php?t=243670 

Firstly, the PSU MUST be SLI certified, if it is and you still experienced this issue, send me an email at jacobf@evga.com with the burned connector picture and we have an alternate solution.

Yeah it just seems like an issue for the advanced early gen x58 boards, and the 759/760 where part of that lineup. Other vendors jumped on top of this issue first it seems, the first was EVGA's 4-way classified and now the Classified 3... then Asus has its Rampage III, It seems all of Gigabytes old lineups have been removed from newegg already.
 
Even if the psu is SLI Certified does not protect it from this. When you put in amd/ati  5xxx card or Nvidia GTX 480"only one we know about right now in a crossfire/sli config, these older gen boards are saying hey we need more power for the gpus. Since these first gen x58 boards do not have the extra power adapter on them to get that extra power to the pcie lanes, it has to come from somplace. That is where the 24 pin burnout comes into play, heating up those 2 main lines shown in a majority of pictures here on the forums and other places as Jacob has shown. Resulting in a killed psu or a burned 24pin psu, or even a burned/dead psu with a burned/dead mobo.  So with SLI psu's or not your still not going to be fine, my Corsair 1000hx was certified, so was my Antec TPQ 1200w. Even a certified psu does not help in this case.
 
Just bites for many of us who own the 759/760 that have had to go though the meltdown proccess of our 24pins or go though a couple psu's to discover this=/ EVGA does make up for it happening once you hit that point. But having to hit that point first is the scary part  and will leave most with a sour taste in thier mouth...

donta1979

Yeah that is the thing I am going about gaining usb 3/ SATA 6 but losing 16x16x16x=/ but if I go with a 759 again.... I am going to be out yet one more psu, and there is no telling if it will take the rest of my rig with it or not... I really like the nf200 chip...
I was using the 74 bios

Thanks for the reply Donta1979. I am thankful that I decided not to update the bios that much on my board. 
I am very sorry to hear this has happened to you, and I am glad EVGA has stepped up and gave you the upgrade to the Classified 3. although you may loose a couple things or two
Post your thoughts about how the Classy3 measures up to your needs once you get it. Hopefully, a new Bios should fix this issue, in a way or two.

Are we saying this is a 480 problem only, does it happen with 470's, 460's ? Is it only Tri SLI, sli, or does it also happen with 1 card ?

KMoore4318

Are we saying this is a 480 problem only, does it happen with 470's, 460's ? Is it only Tri SLI, sli, or does it also happen with 1 card ?

 
It can happen in any multi-card setup pretty much.  I use HD5800 series as I stated before and it happened to me.
 

EVGA_JacobF

This issue is not related to the specific motherboard, if you search around, you will find others that are not specific to EVGA.
http://www.overclockers.c...howthread.php?t=651336
http://www.xtremesystems....ead.php?t=243670 

Firstly, the PSU MUST be SLI certified, if it is and you still experienced this issue, send me an email at jacobf@evga.com with the burned connector picture and we have an alternate solution.

One picture incoming

KMoore4318

Are we saying this is a 480 problem only, does it happen with 470's, 460's ? Is it only Tri SLI, sli, or does it also happen with 1 card ?

Single cards not sure yet, but sli or tri sli definatly would have to go over the post I linked, the ones Jacob and others linked to find out. What is happening on some ATI 5XXX cards and Nvidia 480's in sli/tri sli configs that we know about now is the gpus even at stock need x amount of power from the pcie lanes, when we dont have the extra power connector on the board the power needed needs to come from someplace that being the 24pin. This is when it heats up, melts, can cause fire, can kill the psu, or can kill your entire system..