Hello,
I've been slowly upgrading a computer for gaming. Recently I had an older corsair 750w PSU give out a strange burning electronics smell under load, so I replaced it with a new evga 850 gq. Initially that psu put off a weird smell, but not a burning one. It has since passed, but there's still a burning smell coming from the heat sinks on the motherboard around the cpu socket. I hadn't noticed the burning smell until I had tried to overclock my cpu. I went from 3.5 to 4.2 GHz. The initial voltage settings were on auto but the bios read 1.145, or something close to that, and I changed it to 1.2. Probably a newbie mistake and a result of me not reading up on overclocking properly, but I'm beggining to think that I screwed something up on the mobo when I changed the voltage. Since then I have restored all the clocks and voltages to the default bios settings and still I have the smell. Maybe the smell is just hanging around. I thought I narrowed the smell down to an hdd at first. I since removed it and put a few games on my ssd and ever since then, my graphics card and cpu were seriously under performing in games. Gpu running under the core clock. Only under 50% load in situations that it usually was 80% or above. Same with the cpu. All the temperatures are ideal. Cpu barely jumps over 45°C under 100% load. Runs between 25 and 35°C at idle. Gpu at 70°C when playing games like the witcher 3, fallout 4, etc. 30 something at idle. I blasted all the visible dust out. It rarely even accumulates any to begin with. Not sure what to do other than replace the motherboard. Any advice is appreciated.
My specs are:
I5 6600k @ 3.5 GHz with a cooler master hyper 212 evo
Evga acx 3.0 gtx 1070
Kingston hyperX fury 16gb ddr4
Evga 850w gq
Gigabyte z170x gaming 5
500gb Samsung 850 evo ssd
1tb wd blue hdd
If you need to know I have two 200 and 3 120mm fans.
I've been slowly upgrading a computer for gaming. Recently I had an older corsair 750w PSU give out a strange burning electronics smell under load, so I replaced it with a new evga 850 gq. Initially that psu put off a weird smell, but not a burning one. It has since passed, but there's still a burning smell coming from the heat sinks on the motherboard around the cpu socket. I hadn't noticed the burning smell until I had tried to overclock my cpu. I went from 3.5 to 4.2 GHz. The initial voltage settings were on auto but the bios read 1.145, or something close to that, and I changed it to 1.2. Probably a newbie mistake and a result of me not reading up on overclocking properly, but I'm beggining to think that I screwed something up on the mobo when I changed the voltage. Since then I have restored all the clocks and voltages to the default bios settings and still I have the smell. Maybe the smell is just hanging around. I thought I narrowed the smell down to an hdd at first. I since removed it and put a few games on my ssd and ever since then, my graphics card and cpu were seriously under performing in games. Gpu running under the core clock. Only under 50% load in situations that it usually was 80% or above. Same with the cpu. All the temperatures are ideal. Cpu barely jumps over 45°C under 100% load. Runs between 25 and 35°C at idle. Gpu at 70°C when playing games like the witcher 3, fallout 4, etc. 30 something at idle. I blasted all the visible dust out. It rarely even accumulates any to begin with. Not sure what to do other than replace the motherboard. Any advice is appreciated.
My specs are:
I5 6600k @ 3.5 GHz with a cooler master hyper 212 evo
Evga acx 3.0 gtx 1070
Kingston hyperX fury 16gb ddr4
Evga 850w gq
Gigabyte z170x gaming 5
500gb Samsung 850 evo ssd
1tb wd blue hdd
If you need to know I have two 200 and 3 120mm fans.