MrHelpSeeker

Cheers for info and advice. Will def look into repairing laptop.

Hi, So I've got an MSI GT80 I bought for cheap at the beginning of the year. About 4 months ago, I let a "friend" of mine use my laptop and told him to plug it in as the gpus run at extremely low clock speeds when on battery. I was a couple feet away from him, watching him, when I caught a whiff of that horrible burning smell. I stepped over to my laptop and inspected the power jack. The charging cable was halfway in and I couldn't push it all the way in, as though something was stopping it. Get this, the cable was forced in the wrong way I took the charging cable out and inspected it to find some debris, stuck inside one of the four "cavities" (proper terminology?). The power jack has 4 prongs in a, I guess, isosceles trapezoidal shape. Anyway, one of the prongs on the power jack was/still is messed up. It's like it's missing the bit of metal (or whatever it is) around the tip of actual prong. I'm assuming that the debris stuck in the charging cable is that metal tip. So, ever since then, I've been using that broken charging cable and it's always sticking halfway out of the jack and I've had no issues, apart from it getting quite hot on rare occasions, which I believe is due to a lack of total contact between prongs. However, I decided to load up BO2 today and I began to smell that horrid burning again. I checked the jack and the end of the charging cable seems to have melted a bit more to the point where two of the holes of the cable's end are just about forming one large hole. I'm hesitant to continue using this cable. Worried that it may mess up the power jack even more if the cables melts again. Now, about 1 month after the first melting incident with my friend, I received a replacement power adapter from Aliexpress. I immediately put my old adapter away tried the new one. What I noticed was that when I began to play certain games such as Warframe, Elite Dangerous, COD, the laptop would stop charging and the power adapter would switch off. The laptop would start charging again after I would disconnect and reconnect the power to the adapter itself. This represents why I've been using the damaged power adapter since. It melting a bit more tonight made me question how satisfied I was with the old cable and it's got me worried that that one prong in the jack missing its tip is preventing the laptop from getting enough power from the new adapter. I have no idea why the new adapter does not work properly. I feel as though the debris in other cable should prevent necessary power output, but obviously this is not the case. I was also thinking of attempting to swap the ends of the adapters to see if that would fix anything. Maybe it's a fault with the new adapter. This is a last resort as I do not trust my wiring skills. Any help/explanation/recommendations are appreciated. Cheers. This is what the adapter looks like: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FDV11XY/ref=psdc_11041841_t3_B00CGA5JQM EDIT: just tried old adapter again playing Warframe. End in power jack is getting extremely hot but performance is as expected.

Still open to any help/advice Cheers

Alrighty, thanks again

Thanks for the info

Cheers for the reply. Would the stock Ryzen 2700X cpu air cooler suffice? And would you also recommend I switch gpu as well, since the Gigabyte, I believe, is also liquid cooled?

Made an account just to ask a question. Found a lot of helpful info on the forums here prior. However, I do hope it's okay to post this here.I'm debating whether to build a new PC.I live in Rarotonga, Cook Islands at the moment. I moved here about 3 years ago from New Zealand. I also brought my old rig which I believe was around 5-6+ years old at the time. After about a year and half in Raro, my PC died. I haven't had one since. If I recall correctly, the motherboard had shorted. A few components also had developed corrosion. I wonder if this was due to age or humidity + high temps?Humidity right now is around 83%, which is probably due to my house being located about 70ft from our saltwater lagoon. Temperatures average around 29 degrees C every day. I don't have A/C. I'm hesitant to build a new PC if I'm going to experience some hardware issues within a short amount of time. I'll just need it to last me until the end of year, as I'll be moving back to New Zealand then. Here is the build I had in mind. I haven't had much experience with these newer components so any constructive criticism, recommendations and advice is greatly appreciated.Case: Cooler Master Mastercase H500MGPU: Gigabyte Aorus Geforce RTX 2080 Xtreme Waterforce 8GCPU: AMD Ryzen 2700XCPU Cooler: NZXT X52 AIORam: 16gb G.Skill Trident Z RGBMotherboard: Asus ROG Strix X470-F ATXSSD and HDD: have a couple lying around.PSU: Silverstone Strider Plus 1000WWhat's your guys' take on the AIO liquid cooler and the RTX 2080? Are they good for my build or will they be affected by the climate? or should I stick to air cooling? I've been reading a lot about RTX 2070 and 2080 Ti's failing so I've tried to avoid them. I haven't heard of any issues with the 2080 thus far, correct me if I'm wrong.So, my big question is:Is this build any good, and will it last about a year in high humidity and hot temps? I'm sorry if everything is in a bit of a mess, or I seem to jumping from question to question. Again, I will very much appreciate any and all help I get.