-[ZoU]-Kronos
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ok so last friday i reformatted and the next day im installing FFXI (online game) and my comp freezes, i hear this almost inaudible high pitch noise and then start to smell something burning. i go to hold down the power button for 5 seconds and nothing happened so i just pull the cable out in the back. so i tried turning it on again and it wouldn't even turn on anymore. then i opened up the case to feel around for something really hot and oh boy i found it. the chipset burned my finger pretty bad. so i buy another motherboard, and so i installed counter-strike source, well i noticed it was running slowly and i got in a server only to see i was getting 5-30 fps which is obviously a error for a Radeon x850xtpe. also i cant mess with the cpu at ALL in the bios without it being unstable but it shows it running at 3.4ghz. so today i installed sandra to benchmark my cpu, and its running to about the power of a p4. 2.0ghz processor. now i dont really get this but maybe whatever happened to my motherboard, it also damaged my cpu? not to mention how slowly my computer starts up. please give me some help before i buy another processor or blow my computer up. thanks!