I was recently playing a game, Diablo 3, and noticed that there was this weird smell coming from my computer. I didn't think much about it until my computer completely shut off. I immediately thought it was the video card, because I have had problems with it in the past. So I turned it back on, and began to play the game again. I was able to play for another 15min until it happened again. I never happened before I installed reaper of souls.
I thought it was over heating so I did some cleaning with canned air, and let the computer sit off for about an hour. I also replaced one of the fans thinking it might help. I downloaded, GPU-Z and it says my dinky AMD Radeon 6800HD runs at 39c when idle, 57c while playing something like World of Warcraft/Diablo 3 and 42-47c if I'm on Youtube.
I went about two months before it happened, again while playing Diablo 3. (It hasn't done it on any other game, just FYI) That was two weeks ago and I haven't played it since in fear it will happen again. Yesterday, I was just browsing the web and the smell came back, so I loaded up GPU-Z thinking it was about to over heat and it showed me sitting at 42c. I left GPU-Z open for about three hours while I was using my computer and it never spiked past 50c. I left my computer on overnight and the smell was even more pungent then when I went to bed. Before it was just while I was playing a game and it would stop when I was done, now it's constant.
So I started to abandon the idea that it was my video card and my mind went to power supply. I put my hand by the rear vent and tried to push some of its air near my face and it came back smelling like really hot electronics. It's a Xion 700w that came with this PC. (This one does not have a fan, but the reviews of the same type of PSU on newegg show it as a rather shotty PSU, even with a fan.)
So my question is this, what should I be replacing, my video card or my PSU? I don't have a lot of knowledge with this sort of thing anymore. I've been out of the PC building game for 5 or so years and could really use the help.
I thought it was over heating so I did some cleaning with canned air, and let the computer sit off for about an hour. I also replaced one of the fans thinking it might help. I downloaded, GPU-Z and it says my dinky AMD Radeon 6800HD runs at 39c when idle, 57c while playing something like World of Warcraft/Diablo 3 and 42-47c if I'm on Youtube.
I went about two months before it happened, again while playing Diablo 3. (It hasn't done it on any other game, just FYI) That was two weeks ago and I haven't played it since in fear it will happen again. Yesterday, I was just browsing the web and the smell came back, so I loaded up GPU-Z thinking it was about to over heat and it showed me sitting at 42c. I left GPU-Z open for about three hours while I was using my computer and it never spiked past 50c. I left my computer on overnight and the smell was even more pungent then when I went to bed. Before it was just while I was playing a game and it would stop when I was done, now it's constant.
So I started to abandon the idea that it was my video card and my mind went to power supply. I put my hand by the rear vent and tried to push some of its air near my face and it came back smelling like really hot electronics. It's a Xion 700w that came with this PC. (This one does not have a fan, but the reviews of the same type of PSU on newegg show it as a rather shotty PSU, even with a fan.)
So my question is this, what should I be replacing, my video card or my PSU? I don't have a lot of knowledge with this sort of thing anymore. I've been out of the PC building game for 5 or so years and could really use the help.
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