Recent content by ironphoenix43

thank you for the quick reply. a few days ago i had a weird smell that lasted for like 10 or 15 seconds. it smelled like as if when you leave a candle wick burn itself dry, which lead me to start looking around. if a capacitor was to blow or if a smell was coming from the PC would it be...

what are these black marker spots on my PSU capacitors? are they are sign of blown capacitors or is just some sort of marking. when inspecting the PSU nearly all of them have these marks. even some that aren't capacitors have the mark

you are correct it is the noise being heard at 13 seconds. i have windows 10. the AIO you are seeing there is the Lian li Galahad 360mm my pc specs are intel I7 6700k 32GBs of ram evga nvidia gtx 1070 ftw2. the motherboard im using is called Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 the AIO is top mounted as...

my pump makes this weird noise when i first turn on my computer. it goes away and it doesn't happen again once the computer is fully booted up. the pump is powered by the motherboard header labeled as CPU_OPT. I set CPU_OPT to max to have the pump speed run at its max rpms. the radiator is...