New pc smells odd

thatsmellysmell123 · May 1, 2018

I recently bought a new pc from cyberpower on amazon (if you put "GXIVR8020A4" in google its the first link) and it works great. but after i use it for a while something from it smells sort of like fish. im curious as to why, and if its ok to be breathing around it

richiestang_78 · May 1, 2018

Not sure about fish smell but I do know Cyberpower sometimes puts questionable quality power supplies in their PCs. I would smells around that area to see if it is indeed the PSU, if it is I would highly recommend contacting Cyberpower for a replacement or what i would do is buy a decent Corsair CX or CXM PSU and swap it.

therealduckofdeath · May 1, 2018

New computers tends to create a fairly strong odour, like burnt something (because components like the graphics card, processor, memory and such gets pretty hot inside a PC, "burning off" thin layers of "dirt" left on the components when it was all welded together at the assembly plant). It's usually not an issue. It'll go away after a week or two.
Kind of like a new car smell, just not as pleasantly smelling. \o/

10tacle · May 1, 2018

Yep. Not unusual at all. This is also why on entire new builds from the ground up, I'll burn it in for 24 hours in a stress test other than to make sure it's stable. Heat it up and the smell goes away faster.

toshibitsu · May 1, 2018

Could be the material in the case. I've worked on some systems from them before at my old job. There was occasional odd smells(not so much that they were intense/foul, just... odd).

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