BishopMaster

I believe that you are right. I am pretty sure that the motherboard is damaged in some way, even though my pc can boot up with the old psu but not the new psu. I don't see any damage on the board.

Yes.

I bought a new psu but my pc wouldn't turn on with the new psu installed...

Will do. thanks for your input.

The thing is, I wasn't sure if the smoke was from the PSU or not... I didn't bother to think about it too much after everything booted but once I started having stuttering issues I thought that this might have been the problem...

Thank you. I couldn't believe that they would send me a faulty psu I will try to get a new psu as soon as possible and will let you guys know the results. I hope that this fixes the stuttering problem with the new psu.

Yea 650w should definitely be enough, but I am wondering if there is something wrong with the psu that is not allowing it to push out 650w. When I first turned the pc on smoke came out of the pc for some reason and then ended up turning on. Now smoke does not appear when i turn it on but there was smoke in the initial boot up. I am wondering if this has anything to do with the psu.

all of my drivers are up to date. I have even tried to remove and reinstall drivers. I have also tried to do a full factory reset 3 times, and have tried to reinstall windows as well. None of these options got rid of the stutters. This shouldn't be happening at all exactly, which is why I am confused as to why this is happening.

Also in csgo I get weird micro stutters and hitches although my gpu usage is only 11% and cpu usage is around 11% as well. Temperatures don't go past 20c for both.

Hello all. First before I talk about my problems, here are my pc specs: OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Home System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Motherboard: Z390 AORUS ULTRA System Type: x64-based PC Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3600 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date: American Megatrends Inc. F8, 6/5/2019 Motherboard manufacture: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Graphics Card: ASUS Rtx 2080 SSD: Samsung 970 evo plus RAM: 32 gb corsair vengeance 3200mhz I've had a major stuttering problem in all of my games ever since I've built my computer 3 months ago. Back in May, I bought components to a pc build and I finished building it myself. As soon as I downloaded and launched up games such as Fortnite and Cs go, I've been encountering these weird stuttering/hitching issues, even though I don't think that I should be having these stuttering issues at all. I've done every windows optimization I can, including my nvidia settings and even monitored my cpu, gpu, and ram usages/temperatures while playing these games. There are no bottlenecks whatsoever because I get a crap ton of stuttering in cs go but cpu and gpu usages are always below 40% and temperatures never go past 45C. Also Fortnite only uses like 5g of ram and I have a total of 32g ram so I know that this is not the problem. Since I know that my hardware is not bottlenecking whatsoever, I started to have a sneaking suspicion that the problem would be my PSU and that not enough power is going to my components. Do you guys think that my psu could be the problem? I currently have a EVGA 650 watt psu and for some reason I feel like this is not enough power to sufficiently power my system to it's fullest potential which may be the cause of these stuttering and micro stuttering issues. I have done everything I could for the past 3 months to get rid of these stuttering issues but it is still there and is honestly getting worse over time. Please let me know what you guys think. I have no issue at all getting a new psu and replacing the one I have currently.