Bad burning smell, electricall buzzing pop

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Hi,

recently got some kind of pop, "electrical buzz" sound coming from my PC while playing BF3, and it restarted. nothing happens, runs fine until i boot up Skyrim and i noticed really bad burning smell, but again, PC runs fine when i restart it. Immediately shut it down to prevent any further damages. Is it my PSU?

I5 4570
AsRock H81M-VG4
R9 270X HIS Iceq
Corsair CX600M
 
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Darkbreeze
Corsair is a third party seller of PSU's that are branded for them by OEM manufacturers. Some of their products are really good, some are extremely poor. Others are borderline or depending on the series or part number even seen to be on both sides of the fence. The CX series is one of those. Some are really good while others barely make it out of warranty if they even last that long. It would not be surprising for it to be the PSU.

Has it made any strange noises, vibrations or can you definitely smell the odors at the PSU if you put your nose directly up to the vents on it? If so, and maybe even regardless of whether or not you can, it might be a damn good idea to just replace it with a higher tier unit from the Tier list. If you want...
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Darkbreeze

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Check to see that the fans on your PSU, graphics card, CPU and case are all running. Make sure there is no dust, hair, junk built up inside the PSU or in the heatsink of the graphics card or under the CPU fan. IF there is, you need to get it blown out with compressed air or something after removing it from the case to keep it from getting all over in there. Do you have the CPU or GPU overclocked at all? You can test the PSU using the following methods if everything else checks out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac7YMUcMjbw
 
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Yep, all runs perfectly. No overclocked CPU/GPU. If the PC runs fine under normal load (simple document composing, etc) could it be the PSU that is going bad? I heard that corsair's CX line is not that good. The PSU has been running over a year
 
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Corsair is a third party seller of PSU's that are branded for them by OEM manufacturers. Some of their products are really good, some are extremely poor. Others are borderline or depending on the series or part number even seen to be on both sides of the fence. The CX series is one of those. Some are really good while others barely make it out of warranty if they even last that long. It would not be surprising for it to be the PSU.

Has it made any strange noises, vibrations or can you definitely smell the odors at the PSU if you put your nose directly up to the vents on it? If so, and maybe even regardless of whether or not you can, it might be a damn good idea to just replace it with a higher tier unit from the Tier list. If you want something that's unquestioningly reliable pick on from Tier 2B or above. Tier 3 units are ok but most of the CX models are 3rd Tier so it's a crapshoot sometimes with those units.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1804779/power-supply-unit-tier-list.html
 
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I wouldn't even play around with my components. I'd replace the PSU asap just to be safe. How old is that PSU? I'd look at the graphics card too maybe since it's not under much demand for basic computing but gaming and video elevate stress on GPU components exponentially.
 
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