Burned PSU possibly damaged hardware

My PSU recently burned out, I don't know if other hardware was affected is it safe to buy a new PSU and use my PC as I normally do?

How do I check for potential damages? CPU: i7 2700K 3.5GHz GPU: EVGA GTX 660 TI 3GB PSU: Corsair GS800 RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB 1866MHz Motherboard: ASRock P67 Extreme Gen4 HDD: Seagate 1TB

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So long as your new power supply is at least as powerful as your old, it should work. Provided you haven't burned out any of your existing hardware.

The standard way to tell if you have burnt out any of your existing hardware is to try it with a replacement power supply. It is very possible that you have damaged one or more of your existing components, but you might be lucky and your old power supply may have failed in a way that left everything else intact.

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Yes, Don't Worry If PSU is burned, it will not gonna effect the any Softwares, As Softwares are inside Harddrive. and Buying new PSU will be good choice.

750 Watts PSU will be very good for the system requirements you have..

I am also using corsair 750 watts PSU and i have GTX 660 2GB Card.

750 will be more then enough...

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If you meant about other hardware affecting cuz of burned PSU, than it would be hard to tell, but i also once had a power supply burned out but thankfully it didn't damaged any other thing.. So no possible way of knowing of if your PSU damaged the other hardwares, but don't worry about softwares.. ;)

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You could run your system on a 550 gold rated PSU actually. 750 is overkill for your system. Make sure its gold rated and you shouldnt run into any issues.

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