Specs, old build:
Antec 1200 case
EVGA X58 SLI Mobo
Intel i7 965
6 GB, 3 x 2GB Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600 memory
Corsair AX750 PSU
EVGA GTX 750Ti
Various hard drives and Samsung 850 Pro 512 GB SSD as boot drive
Windows 7 64-bit Professional
So just yesterday, I noticed a weird burning smell coming from my PC. About two weeks ago my PSU, a Corsair AX750 crapped out on me (was working fine one moment then completely shut down my PC the next and refused to turn on after that), so I got an RMA. During the RMA, I bought myself a Corsair CX750M as a holdover until the whole thing went through.
I had the CX750M wired in a loose open bench configuration because I didn't want to have to deal with cable management for this time. PSU worked fine but this afternoon I noticed a strange pungent smell coming from my PC. Smelled like burnt electronics, and this was during idle. My PC is not on a carpeted floor, it's on a table that is far from the floor.
I checked around for burnt components or any type of bulging capacitors and saw nothing. I checked my temps using HWMon and saw nothing out of the ordinary. Heck, because it's cooler where I am, my computer was idling at 30 C, which is low for these first-gen i7 CPUs.
My computer is working fine. I even tested a quick game to see if anything strange would happen under load and the smell doesn't get worse, I don't hear any buzzing and my computer isn't having problems turning on or off.
As a precautionary measure and suspecting my PSU, I swapped out the CX750M, returned that to where I bought it, and brought in the RMA'd AX750. The smell still is there, but it seems to not be as strong. I don't know if the smell's due to what was leftover from the CX750M possibly going bad or if it's coming from one of my other devices. The problem is I can't tell what it is. Nothing in HWMon is reporting out of the ordinary and I just eliminated the PSU as a source of problems.
Since I can't visually see anything on the Motherboard, could it possibly be the GPU causing the smell? That's the only part I can think of that may be causing it but I'm not having any GPU issues or artifacts or game crashes while playing. I guess I could swap it out for an old GPU and see how it is.
Also I live in an area that gathers dust like it's no one's business and admittedly, I *have* been lazy with the dusting. While I was swapping out the PSU though I gave it a very good dust cleanup. I'm tempted to head out and grab myself a 1050Ti and swap out the 750Ti to see if that's the problem, but I'd like to get all your input before I do that.
Thanks in advance.
Antec 1200 case
EVGA X58 SLI Mobo
Intel i7 965
6 GB, 3 x 2GB Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600 memory
Corsair AX750 PSU
EVGA GTX 750Ti
Various hard drives and Samsung 850 Pro 512 GB SSD as boot drive
Windows 7 64-bit Professional
So just yesterday, I noticed a weird burning smell coming from my PC. About two weeks ago my PSU, a Corsair AX750 crapped out on me (was working fine one moment then completely shut down my PC the next and refused to turn on after that), so I got an RMA. During the RMA, I bought myself a Corsair CX750M as a holdover until the whole thing went through.
I had the CX750M wired in a loose open bench configuration because I didn't want to have to deal with cable management for this time. PSU worked fine but this afternoon I noticed a strange pungent smell coming from my PC. Smelled like burnt electronics, and this was during idle. My PC is not on a carpeted floor, it's on a table that is far from the floor.
I checked around for burnt components or any type of bulging capacitors and saw nothing. I checked my temps using HWMon and saw nothing out of the ordinary. Heck, because it's cooler where I am, my computer was idling at 30 C, which is low for these first-gen i7 CPUs.
My computer is working fine. I even tested a quick game to see if anything strange would happen under load and the smell doesn't get worse, I don't hear any buzzing and my computer isn't having problems turning on or off.
As a precautionary measure and suspecting my PSU, I swapped out the CX750M, returned that to where I bought it, and brought in the RMA'd AX750. The smell still is there, but it seems to not be as strong. I don't know if the smell's due to what was leftover from the CX750M possibly going bad or if it's coming from one of my other devices. The problem is I can't tell what it is. Nothing in HWMon is reporting out of the ordinary and I just eliminated the PSU as a source of problems.
Since I can't visually see anything on the Motherboard, could it possibly be the GPU causing the smell? That's the only part I can think of that may be causing it but I'm not having any GPU issues or artifacts or game crashes while playing. I guess I could swap it out for an old GPU and see how it is.
Also I live in an area that gathers dust like it's no one's business and admittedly, I *have* been lazy with the dusting. While I was swapping out the PSU though I gave it a very good dust cleanup. I'm tempted to head out and grab myself a 1050Ti and swap out the 750Ti to see if that's the problem, but I'd like to get all your input before I do that.
Thanks in advance.
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