Psu smells burnt

[Triventular]

I recently had my old psu die on me and i didn't know the reason why it died (besides that it was a generic one). I bought and Aerocool Strike X 500w psu.. i was short on cash and this was the cheapest psu that had an 80+ bronze rating. I hooked it up and its all good. After a few weeks, i smell something like a hot iron.. and i wasn't sure where it was coming from. I sniffed around my pc and it was coming from my psu. What do i do with it? The warranty on the shop is one year but it takes 30 working days if i wanted it to service it to them.. i think its not normal for any psu to smell like that. What's worse is that it also makes short sounds that goes *zip* or something like that. Is it possible that a component in my pc is killing my new power supply or that i just have bad luck with power supplies?

 

My specs are: 

Core 2 Quad Q9450

MSI MS-7541 (oem lg board)

Palit GTX 1050

6gb ddr3 ram

320gb Hitachi hdd and 640gb wd blue scorpio

 

I'm only using the stock cooler and a single 120mm cooler master case fan connected to the fan headers on my board

 

[genexis_x]

4 minutes ago, Triventular said:

i was short on cash and this was the cheapest psu that had an 80+ bronze rating

Efficiency means nothing to build quality, also don't cheap on PSU

4 minutes ago, Triventular said:

Aerocool Strike X 500w psu

5 minutes ago, Triventular said:

Is it possible that a component in my pc is killing my new power supply or that i just have bad luck with power supplies?

You're killing your PC by getting a bad PSU

[Triventular]

1 minute ago, ZM Fong said:

Efficiency means nothing to build quality, also don't cheap on PSU

You're killing your PC by getting a bad PSU

I do know that but, where i live, computer components are expensive even the lower end ones. Anyways, my friend also has the same powersupply and it's serving him pretty well so i asked him if he would recommend me to buy one and he said yes. 

 

So what should i do with my powersupply?

[Triventular]

I removed my psu from my computer and tried to jump it with the paperclip method. It works but my problem is that the smell of burning is not there... But when i plugged it back to my pc, the smell went back even tho i just plugged in the 24pin mobo and 4pin cpu

 

What could be happening?

[genexis_x]

6 hours ago, Triventular said:

I do know that but, where i live, computer components are expensive even the lower end ones. Anyways, my friend also has the same powersupply and it's serving him pretty well so i asked him if he would recommend me to buy one and he said yes. 

 

So what should i do with my powersupply?

Even it is expensive, you shouldn't cheap out PSU
The PSU isn't good in build quality
What's the specs of your friend's PC? The PSU is fine for low powered builds such as office PCs

[turkey3_scratch]

6 hours ago, Triventular said:

I removed my psu from my computer and tried to jump it with the paperclip method. It works but my problem is that the smell of burning is not there... But when i plugged it back to my pc, the smell went back even tho i just plugged in the 24pin mobo and 4pin cpu

 

What could be happening?

Well there is zero load on it when you do the paperclip test so that may be why.

 

Also, just because your friend had the PSU and his is fine and recommended it doesn't mean it's good. Unfortunately, he's not an electrical engineer or PSU reviewer. There is no way he could know if the PSU is good or not unless he had tons of knowledge and thousands of dollars worth of testing equipment.

 

It could be something possible underneath the main board on the PCB that is burning. Who knows. I wouldn't use it anymore, though. Plus it's probably not good to breathe that stuff in in the first place.

[STRMfrmXMN]

The Strike X isn't utter garbage but it could be the source of your problems.

 

Burning smells can come from all sorts of things, namely the PSU and motherboard. Perhaps try running a fan over the VRMs on the motherboard and see if that helps?