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Computer turned off. Black screen, no power.

Extension lead also lost power. (Only computer + monitor + router connected)

Next time it turned on smoke came from GPU/motherboard PCI slot.

After completely unable to boot for more than a day, switched power cables managed to get it to post (no display output) after leaving on for 4 hours display output suddenly appeared.


It's now working completely fine for short periods of time however, AIDA says CPU is throttling and temps are instantly at 80+ from when system boots.

This is felt in games as I'd start at 100-200fps then instantly drop to 11 in a matter of seconds and it stutters

I uninstalled the 2 Fans connected to the x62 Kraken cooler but theres stil two of corsairs maglev ones on their, maybe configured wrong? but i doubt it would cause over 100 degrees temps.

 

I'm unsure where to go from here, I was thinking maybe the pump had gone on the CPU cooler? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Specs:

i7-4790k + X62 Kraken water cooler 240mm? rad

980ti XTreme gaming waterforce

240gb Sandisk SSD + 1Tb hard drive

Z97 MSI Gaming 5 Motherboard

CX750 corsair PSU

16 GB corsair vengeance pro ram

 

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Dude, are you serious?

Smoke?

CPU i7 6700k MB  MSI Z170A Pro Carbon GPU Zotac GTX980Ti amp!extreme RAM 16GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance 3k CASE Corsair 760T PSU Corsair RM750i MOUSE Logitech G9x KB Logitech G910 HS Sennheiser GSP 500 SC Asus Xonar 7.1 MONITOR Acer Predator xb270hu Storage 1x1TB + 2x500GB Samsung 7200U/m - 2x500GB SSD Samsung 850EVO

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I would dust off the computer, if this doesn't work i'd remove the cpu cooler and change the thermal paste, it could be hard to find some during the pandemic

Main PC [The Rig of Theseus]:

CPU: i5-8600K @ 5.0 GHz | GPU: GTX 1660 | RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3000 MHz | Case: Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic | PSU: Corsair RM 650i | SSD: Corsair MP510 480 GB |  HDD: 2x 6 TB WD Red| Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro | OS: Windows 11 Pro for Workstations

 

Secondary PC [Why did I bother]:

CPU: AMD Athlon 3000G | GPU: Vega 3 iGPU | RAM: 8 GB DDR4 3000 MHz | Case: Corsair 88R | PSU: Corsair VS 650 | SSD: WD Green M.2 SATA 120 GB | Motherboard: MSI A320M-A PRO MAX | OS: Windows 11 Pro for Workstations

 

Server [Solution in search of a problem]:

Model: HP DL360e Gen8 | CPU: 1x Xeon E5-2430L v1 | RAM: 12 GB DDR3 1066 MHz | SSD: Kingston A400 120 GB | OS: VMware ESXi 7

 

Server 2 electric boogaloo [A waste of electricity]:

Model: intel NUC NUC5CPYH | CPU: Celeron N3050 | RAM: 2GB DDR3L 1600 MHz | SSD: Kingston UV400 120 GB | OS: Debian Bullseye

 

Laptop:

Model: ThinkBook 14 Gen 2 AMD | CPU: Ryzen 7 4700U | RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz | OS: Windows 11 Pro

 

Photography:

 

Cameras:

Full Frame digital: Sony α7

APS-C digital: Sony α100

Medium Format Film: Kodak Junior SIX-20

35mm Film:

 

Lenses:

Sony SAL-1870 18-70mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 

Sony SAL-75300 75-300mm ƒ/4.5-5.6

Meike MK-50mm ƒ/1.7

 

PSA: No, I didn't waste all that money on computers, (except the main one) my server cost $40, the intel NUC was my old PC (although then it had 8GB of ram, I gave the bigger stick of ram to a person who really needed it), my laptop is used and the second PC is really cheap.

I like tinkering with computers and have a personal hatred towards phones and everything they represent (I daily drive an iPhone 7, or a 6, depends on which one works that day)

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Yeah I had some at my house but I'm currently looking after someone so I cant get hold of any, I can dust of the radiator but do you really think around 2 years of dust build up could cause those kind of temperatures?

 

I cant replace the CPU cooler right now unless I find some cheap stuff at asda or something

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