Burning smell.......

[Masta_Gomes]

Could it be the new GPU?

 

[krazieaznboi]

could be... maybe thers like a sticker on the vcard and u forgot to take it off...

 

[Masta_Gomes]

there is a sticker on it, but it's definitely not burning, i never remove anything from parts, unless spefcifically stated to do so anywhere, and they're just on the underside of the card, that being facing up to the roof.

 

[krazieaznboi]

hmmm... does ur psu blow out cold air? or warm air? or hot air?

 

[Masta_Gomes]

Well, I've got the Ritmo PSU in atm, no more burning smell in my room, so it seems it's the Antec. From what i remember it was kinda warmish/hot, but the smell was potent went you smelt the fan, though i never really noticed the back fan rotating, and i know it's thermally controlled, but **** something in there was bruning it should be spinning at that stage!! Maybe faulty fan, but yeah now I just need to find the receipt of bank statement to prove purchase...

 

[krazieaznboi]

if it was warmish/hot. its either ur stressing the psu or the psu is buggy. the psu should blow cool air at idle, and cold/warm air at full load. the psu should neva blow warm/hot. if that happens its a sign ur stressing it.

 

[Masta_Gomes]

Well in using my generic PSU, the air right now is not really warm, cold/warm, and it shows no sign of burning smell, not to mention it's the same rig, and this is a Ritmo 500W PSU.....while my Antec Smartpower 2.0 500W is getting stressed, it holds a lot of ampage on it's rails compared to the generic one in atm!!!

 

[krazieaznboi]

its probably a faulty antec psu. just use ur generic for now and send ur smartpower for repair. also, generic psu arent so bad. i been using generic psu for 7yrs on different 5 computers and nothing went wrong. they r still working.

 

[Masta_Gomes]

yeah sometimes generic things go a long way.......just dissapointing that "quality" buys are letting me down!

 

[Masta_Gomes]

Also not to mention ,this PSU was faulty too, weird faulty! When i use the DVD drive to play a game my computer would restart, hence i bought the antec, though that was with my 9600XT as i said before, maybe with the new GPU being directly connected it might work? Who knows, but for now I can do work and play WoW! haha