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Not related.
That is pretty important information. Turn the computer off and sniff around the computer to locate the smell. I'm betting it is coming from the power supply.
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Random Freezing. PLEASE HELP
- Thread starter TheDrive
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If you have a flashlight, inspect the area around where the smoke was, including the internals of the power supply. You should be able to see it through the back. It may or may not have burn marks. It completely depends on what actually failed.
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I did a little research and it MAY be a heat issue. All the fans are running properly (with the exception of a missing fin on one of the side fans) and my system is not OC'ed so I don't see why it would be, but I'll install a temp monitoring program just to be sure. As an extra precaution, I'll go pick up some thermal paste and reapply.
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I used the ASUS PSU calculator and it's telling me that with my current hardware, I'd need a 950w PSU... That seems a little overkill. Thoughts?
EDIT: Sorry for all the double posts...
EDIT 2: Just put in an RMA request for the PSU. Will be getting a refund and purchasing a better unit. Here's to no other hardware being fried because of it... you can't see me but I'm toasting
EDIT: Sorry for all the double posts...
EDIT 2: Just put in an RMA request for the PSU. Will be getting a refund and purchasing a better unit. Here's to no other hardware being fried because of it... you can't see me but I'm toasting
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Most power supply calculators over-estimate the wattage. A crap 950w would probably work, but you would need a much "lower" wattage quality unit. This is usually because those junk power supplies are way overrated on their wattage, where a good unit can actually put out the advertised performance.
This is why you see "900w" $45 power supplies, they are complete junk.
This is why you see "900w" $45 power supplies, they are complete junk.
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Ah okay. I was thinking to spend the extra hundred and get this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ckTab=true&Keywords=(keywords)#scrollFullInfo ...Pricey, but I shouldn't have to worry about buying a new one if ever I'd like to upgrade anything
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This would fit the bill nicely and not break the bank:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020
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I ended up going with http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139011
Forgot to mention the H100 Cooling kit that will be in there. For $50 more, this should last me
Forgot to mention the H100 Cooling kit that will be in there. For $50 more, this should last me
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Ran Prime95 for a few hours and everything was good. CPU temp peaked at 60C. Hadn't been freezing in the past couple days until today when I ran BF3. Ran PC Probe II to monitor temps while playing and they were all good. Froze anyway. So now that I've ruled out it being a temp, PSU, or memory problem, I'm gonna see if the problem lies in one (or both) of my HD 6870s. I've disabled Crossfire and disabled one of the cards from the device manager. Will try running BF3 again and see if it still freezes.
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Could be a driver issue as well. Try a different driver. When you disable xfire and disable one of the cards in device manager, do you unplug it and remove it from the machine?
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I would definitely thing the popping and electrical burning smell has something to do with it as that's never a good thing. I don't know much about drivers or your cards though, I haven't had any such problems. 
While I was overclocking my graphics card I would occasionally get a driver crash that would freeze the screen for a few seconds, but then it would recover and all would be well again. Maybe if it is your driver, it's crashing and not recovering. It could also be a combination of the two, for example a capacitor or something blew on one of your cards and now it's not getting the proper voltage and it is causing the driver to crash and never recover. Definitely remove the second card completely and test the other one alone. Then if you still have problems, take out the one that's still in your main slot and put the other one in there. You could also try removing both and using the onboard GPU for a little while to see if it randomly crashes without any add-on cards.
While I was overclocking my graphics card I would occasionally get a driver crash that would freeze the screen for a few seconds, but then it would recover and all would be well again. Maybe if it is your driver, it's crashing and not recovering. It could also be a combination of the two, for example a capacitor or something blew on one of your cards and now it's not getting the proper voltage and it is causing the driver to crash and never recover. Definitely remove the second card completely and test the other one alone. Then if you still have problems, take out the one that's still in your main slot and put the other one in there. You could also try removing both and using the onboard GPU for a little while to see if it randomly crashes without any add-on cards.
