burnt smell

So one week ago, I build a new PC. All of the components are new, except for the Graphics Card. The Graphics Card is MSI RTX 3070 Ventus 2x. I buy it for $250 from a friend, and he buys it when he is on outside of the country, so I cant claim a warranty (it still has a international warranty)...

Recently upgraded my pc. New case and upgraded to a 750w Seasonic Focus gx gold rated , Zotac 3070Ti OC Trinity edition and a Ryzen 5 5600x paired with my old motherboard a B450 Aorus M with 2 ssd's 1 is m.2 ,Problem i have right now is when I try to play anything I start smelling burnt plastic...

There was a smell of burning dust or plastic , i couldn't see any obvious cables or burnt marks inside my computer case, so i dusted it, it's been maybe a year or a little over since last time i dusted it, so it was really needed anyways. I tried to locate the smell but there was no obvious...

Hello there! I'm getting burnt smells coming from my PC whenever I do moderately intense gaming. (Rather old games, but just enough to make the PC work harder than, say, video streaming) I thought for a while it might be the PSU, but the smell was rather strong this afternoon. I put my nose...

Hey team, my good old hardy PC is having trouble and I am hoping that you can help. I left the PC idle after taking a pause from playing Civilisation VI, and when I came back I found it shut down and noticed a faint smell of burnt plastic/cables. I gave it a clean from dust and tried switching...

I happened to bought a new cooling fan for my pc which had only 1 fan. I installed the new one and connected it to the same psu connector. Once I turned it on, a burnt smell caught my attention and I immediately pulled the plug. I didn't knew where the odor came. I removed the old fan and only...

I have a Hasee laptop which uses the clevo model P655-HP6. It shutdown when I was normally using. I cannot boot it up right now and I think the problem is with this burnt part that is on the second image. I wanted to know what is the part that is burnt. Is it a mosfet? And whether this could be...

Hello guys , thanks for helping already. Ive just put together my pc , my gpu is factory overclocked i already tried increasing the voltage and it fixed some of my problems , but i cant play pc games in a stable rate in my decent pc. Not even cs go.it freezes sometomes and graphic intensive...

I am looking for a gaming laptop that's around 800 dollars I would like an i7 but an i5 is perfectly fine. I want a 1080p screen and at least an 850m or r9 m275 windows eight is fine and a one tb hard drive. I was looking at the lenovo y40 but I don't really know what's out there any help is...