Hello,
So yesterday I was playing the Sims 3, and I noticed that the fan on my Sapphire 4870 would rapidly change RPM's, totally normal, just compensating for different loads, temp. Anyway, after an hour playing the RPM noise going up and down was becoming bothersome, so I went into Catalyst and manually changed the RPM's to 90%, which obviously made the fan hella loud, but at least it wasn't changing noise from quiet to loud every five seconds (my theory behind using 90% was to ensure that the card wouldn't overheat, BTW) So I did this at about 9PM. I play through the night with the fan at 90%, and i go to bed at around 3AM. Being forgetful, I leave the fan setting at 90%.
Next morning I wake up around 10AM to the smell of burning. I jump out of my bed and run through the house literally looking for a flaming wreckage somewhere in my house, but alas, there was nothing. I smell around everywhere I can, but I cannot determine the location of the smell, it was strong practically everywhere in the house. My first thought was to check all the electronics considering there wasn't anything physically burning. My TV and home audio was fine, definitely not the cause of the smell. The only thing left was the PC. So I turn it off, and turn on a window unit AC and go back to bed.
When I wake up at 2PM, the smell was mostly gone. I'm 90% certain the smell originated from my PC, and its definitely not the PSU, motherboard, HDD, or fans, but the video card seems to have a hint of the burning smell on it. My question is simply, by leaving the fan running at 90% for 14 hours, could that cause a burning smell? Its just strange to think that the burning smell that i experienced when i woke up can't be traced, its like whatever was burning simply disappeared and now everything is back to normal, but I'm primarily worried about the video card in my PC. What should I do?
At the moment my computer is on, case panel is open, and all the unnecessary components are unplugged and only the necessary fans are plugged in (video card and CPU). Doing a scent check reveals nothing.
So yesterday I was playing the Sims 3, and I noticed that the fan on my Sapphire 4870 would rapidly change RPM's, totally normal, just compensating for different loads, temp. Anyway, after an hour playing the RPM noise going up and down was becoming bothersome, so I went into Catalyst and manually changed the RPM's to 90%, which obviously made the fan hella loud, but at least it wasn't changing noise from quiet to loud every five seconds (my theory behind using 90% was to ensure that the card wouldn't overheat, BTW) So I did this at about 9PM. I play through the night with the fan at 90%, and i go to bed at around 3AM. Being forgetful, I leave the fan setting at 90%.
Next morning I wake up around 10AM to the smell of burning. I jump out of my bed and run through the house literally looking for a flaming wreckage somewhere in my house, but alas, there was nothing. I smell around everywhere I can, but I cannot determine the location of the smell, it was strong practically everywhere in the house. My first thought was to check all the electronics considering there wasn't anything physically burning. My TV and home audio was fine, definitely not the cause of the smell. The only thing left was the PC. So I turn it off, and turn on a window unit AC and go back to bed.
When I wake up at 2PM, the smell was mostly gone. I'm 90% certain the smell originated from my PC, and its definitely not the PSU, motherboard, HDD, or fans, but the video card seems to have a hint of the burning smell on it. My question is simply, by leaving the fan running at 90% for 14 hours, could that cause a burning smell? Its just strange to think that the burning smell that i experienced when i woke up can't be traced, its like whatever was burning simply disappeared and now everything is back to normal, but I'm primarily worried about the video card in my PC. What should I do?
At the moment my computer is on, case panel is open, and all the unnecessary components are unplugged and only the necessary fans are plugged in (video card and CPU). Doing a scent check reveals nothing.
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