yea thats why its so high you only have one physical cpu but 4 core contained within it. so just put down 1 cpu in the drop down list.
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yea thats why its so high you only have one physical cpu but 4 core contained within it. so just put down 1 cpu in the drop down list.
ok thanks ill do it now.
im looking at this.
Corsair TX750 750W Power Supply
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-011-CS
its saying I need a 556 w ill order that 650
Thanks
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i'd have gone with the psu too. What about all those fans? Do they run full tilt all the time? If temp controlled then could be one of the fans when speeding up.
Not sure where your coming from with ram?
Not sure where your coming from with ram?
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i thought DDR2 ram should go in slots 1-3?
I have 4memory slots, slot 1 and 2 are in use, I have a Mini ninja CPU cooler, its covering up my memory slots 1 and 2, I have to remove it to put my memory back into slots 1 and 2, my Ninja stops at 2 leaving 3 and 4 free, if I manage to pull my current memory out, can i put new memory in slots 3 and 4.
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Well... i wouldn't have said most important. It's like the heart, brain and lungs, they're all interdependant on one another. Neither would work without one or the other. Then it's like CPU, PSU, RAM etc, none work without one another.
But 750W is overkill, since you're not even running a PCI-E x16 card. You could probably make do with 400W, but i would get a 500W for some headroom.
Corsair
SeaSonic
Antec
Are the best brands, i've heard good things about OCZ but my friends had his blow up on him, so you know...
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Check the basics first - are you doing anything specific when the smell gets more noticable? IE playing games, which stresses the CPU and HDD, or compliling a mahoosive DB which would make the HDDs run hot as they thrash data. If so, check around the components likely to be stressed for any contact with anything that wouldn't like heat - braiding, cables, etc.
I'd start by getting a few zip clips, a can of compressed air and doing a dust-clear and cable-tidy mission - it will take a while, but if you can get all the various parts away from each other then you can rule out component/cable interference -IE a fan cable resting on a GPU heatsink or something, dustbunnies/dead insect stuck between the edge of a heatsink and a PCB - I once saw a dead spider wedged inside a Socket 775 heatsink, when the heatsink heated up, it started to reek. Blast of compressed air cleared it out, no more niffyness on load.
Also, any components you can disassemble, do so, but be wary of warranties. IE, is there some paper stuck inside the GPU heatsink? Are all the power connectors firmly in place, so there is no arcing [which is extremely unlikely, but not impossible on high load devices like GPUs] or something else.
Strip everything down as far as you can, clean it out with compressed air [NOT a vacuum cleaner] and give everything a physical once over - check for blown/expanding capacitors, which can smell fishy, or general detritus in areas of heat buildup.
A blow cap looks like this, by the way - image found on another forum that isn't an OCUK retail competitor as far as I can tell:
The caps at the top of the image are OK - flat tops. The ones notated are what you are looking for. Caps can smell before they visible leak, but normally if they are going, they will be noticably expanded at the top, as per the image.
Incidentally, it's never too new to be dust - it just might not be dust. As noted above, insects aren't uncommon to find in PCs. Hence I will say again, get some compressed air and clean everything as best you can.
I'd also kill as many fans as you can and then run them one at a time -take the side panel off your system and lay it on it's back first, obviously, so that it doesn't overheat. Let each fan run off a 12V molex connector [for max speed] and see if you can smell anything from them. Try and do similar [if sensibly possible] for the CPU and GPU fans, if you can.
That's about all I can think of. Hope that helps.
I'd start by getting a few zip clips, a can of compressed air and doing a dust-clear and cable-tidy mission - it will take a while, but if you can get all the various parts away from each other then you can rule out component/cable interference -IE a fan cable resting on a GPU heatsink or something, dustbunnies/dead insect stuck between the edge of a heatsink and a PCB - I once saw a dead spider wedged inside a Socket 775 heatsink, when the heatsink heated up, it started to reek. Blast of compressed air cleared it out, no more niffyness on load.
Also, any components you can disassemble, do so, but be wary of warranties. IE, is there some paper stuck inside the GPU heatsink? Are all the power connectors firmly in place, so there is no arcing [which is extremely unlikely, but not impossible on high load devices like GPUs] or something else.
Strip everything down as far as you can, clean it out with compressed air [NOT a vacuum cleaner] and give everything a physical once over - check for blown/expanding capacitors, which can smell fishy, or general detritus in areas of heat buildup.
A blow cap looks like this, by the way - image found on another forum that isn't an OCUK retail competitor as far as I can tell:
The caps at the top of the image are OK - flat tops. The ones notated are what you are looking for. Caps can smell before they visible leak, but normally if they are going, they will be noticably expanded at the top, as per the image.
Incidentally, it's never too new to be dust - it just might not be dust. As noted above, insects aren't uncommon to find in PCs. Hence I will say again, get some compressed air and clean everything as best you can.
I'd also kill as many fans as you can and then run them one at a time -take the side panel off your system and lay it on it's back first, obviously, so that it doesn't overheat. Let each fan run off a 12V molex connector [for max speed] and see if you can smell anything from them. Try and do similar [if sensibly possible] for the CPU and GPU fans, if you can.
That's about all I can think of. Hope that helps.
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That made me laugh. Has the day really come when people are scared their corsair will pop and so replace it with a hiper?
Check the basics first - are you doing anything specific when the smell gets more noticable? IE playing games, which stresses the CPU and HDD, or compliling a mahoosive DB which would make the HDDs run hot as they thrash data. If so, check around the components likely to be stressed for any contact with anything that wouldn't like heat - braiding, cables, etc.
I'd start by getting a few zip clips, a can of compressed air and doing a dust-clear and cable-tidy mission - it will take a while, but if you can get all the various parts away from each other then you can rule out component/cable interference -IE a fan cable resting on a GPU heatsink or something, dust bunnies/dead insect stuck between the edge of a heatsink and a PCB - I once saw a dead spider wedged inside a Socket 775 heat sink, when the heatsink heated up, it started to reek. Blast of compressed air cleared it out, no more niffyness on load.
Also, any components you can disassemble, do so, but be wary of warranties. IE, is there some paper stuck inside the GPU heatsink? Are all the power connectors firmly in place, so there is no arcing [which is extremely unlikely, but not impossible on high load devices like GPUs] or something else.
Strip everything down as far as you can, clean it out with compressed air [NOT a vacuum cleaner] and give everything a physical once over - check for blown/expanding capacitors, which can smell fishy, or general detritus in areas of heat buildup.
A blow cap looks like this, by the way - image found on another forum that isn't an OCUK retail competitor as far as I can tell:
The caps at the top of the image are OK - flat tops. The ones notated are what you are looking for. Caps can smell before they visible leak, but normally if they are going, they will be noticably expanded at the top, as per the image.
Incidentally, it's never too new to be dust - it just might not be dust. As noted above, insects aren't uncommon to find in PCs. Hence I will say again, get some compressed air and clean everything as best you can.
I'd also kill as many fans as you can and then run them one at a time -take the side panel off your system and lay it on it's back first, obviously, so that it doesn't overheat. Let each fan run off a 12V molex connector [for max speed] and see if you can smell anything from them. Try and do similar [if sensibly possible] for the CPU and GPU fans, if you can.
That's about all I can think of. Hope that helps.
that's the stupid thing, it all new, everything is 3 weeks old my PSU is days old.
LOL its not my PSU, but fingers crossed its been going at least 6 hrs now with no smell hopefully its cured, I've been running Resident Evil 5 Benchmark aswell.
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He had a Hiper and replaced it with the Corsair.
No I had this EZ-Cool 800W Gaming PSU, I replaced that with the Corsair TX 750W
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I occasionally have had smells from the 3 computers that are in my home but i usually put it down to dust blowing through the fans or power supply.
If everything is looking clean and there are no obvious stability problems i can't see it being the power supply dying?
If everything is looking clean and there are no obvious stability problems i can't see it being the power supply dying?
I had this smell once, it was my gpu, a molex plug got stuck in my zalman gpu cooler making it unable to spin, my gpu was 126C , and the cables/glue of the zalman cooler started to smell. took me ages to notice it too as it became worse and worse while I was playing medieval 2 total war, after about 20 misn playing I opened everest to check my temps just in case and my gpu was sitting there @ 126C
, immediately pulled the plug .
, and the cables/glue of the zalman cooler started to smell. took me ages to notice it too as it became worse and worse while I was playing medieval 2 total war, after about 20 misn playing I opened everest to check my temps just in case and my gpu was sitting there @ 126C, immediately pulled the plug .I had this smell once, it was my gpu, a molex plug got stuck in my zalman gpu cooler making it unable to spin, my gpu was 126C
i had the same problem with my old nvidia 5600??? (winfast a310 ultra) can't remember the temps but burnt my hand on the dam thing
, still works even to this day infact it's in my sisters pc that i have just picked up to replace the hdd, it's a real blast from the past actually cos it's one of my old systems epox board (remember them 
)and all...... well apart from the HDD anyway back on topic, hope it's sorted now dude
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That's even worse than a Hiper!!