I was playing a game a little while ago when my system froze, shut down and then refused to boot. I also noticed a slight smell of burning coming from the vent on the back of the power supply. I assumed it was dead at this point, but after it cooled down a bit, I managed to get it running again. However, on taking the side panel off I noticed that the PSU fan is barely spinning at all, and there's hardly any air coming out of the vent at the back (whereas it was constant before).
My question is basically whether it's okay to carry on using it like this until I can afford a replacement. It seems to be fine just browsing the web and such, though I guess it would overheat and fail again doing anything taxing. I have returned my CPU to stock clocks and activated the Power Saver profile in Windows to try and help it out a bit.
Incidentally, it's an OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W. I thought it might still be under warranty, but apparently OCZ recently went bust, so I guess that's out...
My question is basically whether it's okay to carry on using it like this until I can afford a replacement. It seems to be fine just browsing the web and such, though I guess it would overheat and fail again doing anything taxing. I have returned my CPU to stock clocks and activated the Power Saver profile in Windows to try and help it out a bit.
Incidentally, it's an OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W. I thought it might still be under warranty, but apparently OCZ recently went bust, so I guess that's out...
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