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Along Tony's line a good sniff of the components can also give hint of burning. My mobo has a 3 year warranty I would hope ASUS would be similar?
Along Tony's line a good sniff of the components can also give hint of burning. My mobo has a 3 year warranty I would hope ASUS would be similar?
Note that to see anything wrong with the motherboard it will more then likely be on the backside of the motherboard where all the solder joints are, so really if your planning on just upgrading it yank it out and take a look at it. You may discover something simple or discover the true reason things are going nuts on you.
- Tony
We had a OP here just the other day realize just before starting up the build that they had forgotten to use standoff's.......ouch. You could have a stand off in the wrong place and cause a issue? Just saying.
I in fact like to torque those little suckers down. Learned the hard way when I went to tighten my mobo down and had several standoffs loose. It was a funny read though when the OP said he was wondering what this little bag full of parts was for and then it came to him to research it before booting up........smart man!
Smoked in one punch of the power button ! Can you imagine all your new trick components, CPU, GPU, sound card, PSU everything.......poof.....waaa happened ?
Dude totally +1!
I have Been Super upside-down in builds that just have the oddest Gremlins no one could finger out... A friend of mine once told me that if i ever started a Paranormal Computer research and repair company, He'd be the primary investor... I've had some major setbacks and issues that, once I finally solved them, Made me feel a million times better knowing that It was something I could handle... After it's fixed you'll look back later on and be glad you learned a hell of a lot, finished a task you set out to do (even if it tried to kill you..) and thank science it's over and behind you! If that wasn't at least part of the reason we do all these builds and clocks and benchmarks and Tweaks... might as well go buy a mac.. or a, dell......
Hope this encourages someone, hopefully, OP...
Oh P.S. a decent ATX 2.0 PSU checker, Multimeter, and basic understanding of your power loads, including maybe using an online PSU power consumption guesstimator site like eXtreme Power Supply Calculator or similar...
Also Remember with PSUs, and Everything Electrical, the further away from 100% load, (ie, the more headroom you have,) the higher efficiency, lower operating temperature, Exponentially less stress, and drastically longer life the unit will see...
So When Shopping for a PSU, if you decide that your Max Wattage peaks at say, 735w, don't buy a 750w, push for at least 20-25% extra headroom, Minimum. An 850w is safer, 1kw if you can afford it, it's a lot of reliability you can build on top of a good rig, besides, who knows what you may add or upgrade 2-12 months from now?
enjoy, and Happy Benching'1!
-TWEEK!!!
Not sure what the standoff's are, I looked it up and it seems fine but maybe I did do something wrong? It wasn't a very good description as to what they are. I copied my old build to a T as far as internals go, so in theory, it should be no different.
Mine aren't and I've started it several times but maybe its causing the mobo to falter?
The next PSU was a 1200, maybe I should have just gone with that, my last one was a 1000. I downsized to a 850, everyone on the forums assured me it would be fine.
Tweek,
You re-enforce my logic, just like a stereo amplifier you are much more likely to fry your speakers with a low power amp over driven than with a high power one. Computers are no different and I think that the PSU and a great case are the two best purchases you can make when starting in the home build game. Choose wisely and tons of issues are solved. Choose poorly and well you know.....heat, durability, expandability and power delivery all suffer