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Can MB damage GPU?

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Hi,

Recently I was having lots of problem with my system. I 've changed 3 GPU's in 6 a months period (they all failed). I decided to change PSU few days ago (I was using Corsair HX620W for 5 years). I still have doubts that MB could be involved in this as well (one of my GPU GT630 also failed and it did not used any additional power besides that comes from PCI-e ). How likely is that MB could be damaging my GPU's and not PSU?

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Does it matter?
Even if it couldn't ( it can) I wouldn't want a cursed MB....that's way to failures....
 
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I've never heard of it, but I won't say it's impossible.
 
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