Recent content by dochavoc0

I'm just more worried about breathing in the smoke or whatever if it does blow and the plastic smell right now (if it even exists, I could just be conjuring it up)

Well there wasn't any pop or anything, and my roommate doesn't corroborate the burning/plastic smell (I've heard it could just be the plastic from my new GPU heating up?). Is it dangerous to keep around?

it's a CORSAIR CX Series CX500 500W 80 PLUS BRONZE. It's almost 5 years old though.

Hi all. I recently put in a new GPU and SSD into my computer; alongside that I re-installed Windows 8.1 onto my SSD. Before I did all this I was having occasional power issues where, after I turned my computer off, if I turned it immediately back on it wouldn't boot properly; the screens would...