Topic: Faint Burning Smell - page 2. (Read 454 times)
If your riser is using one which is molex to Sata. Check if the molex side connected to the riser is burned. Very common scenario but not easy to detect. If the state of the burn isnt bad, you card will still run but may have errors few hours later.
I added a fourth GPU. A Evga 1070 ti to my rig with 3 1070s. Everything works fine and i had 4 cards in it before running fine just decided to replace one with a 1070ti and was running great for 3 hours but there is a faint burning smell but I can’t pinpoint it. Nothing seemed off. The only thing wrong on my rig is one of the slide locks on my mint cell risers snapped off in an incident weeks ago but the card is fully inserted and functioning fine. I’m not sure if the smell is due to the heat they are putting off or what it could be. To ensure my wife can sleep tonight I turned the rig off and will troubleshoot again tomorrow but don’t know where else to check or how to check if everything is working fine. Any thoughts?
My system set up is
3x 1070 MSI Gaming X
1x EVGA 1070 Ti EVGA
1k PSU
3 Mint Cell Risers
120gb SSD Win 10
OC Settings are +150 Core +600 Mem on Equihash with EWBF
When mining Afterburner is telling me my GPU usage is 100% on all of them
. My system set up is
3x 1070 MSI Gaming X
1x EVGA 1070 Ti EVGA
1k PSU
3 Mint Cell Risers
120gb SSD Win 10
OC Settings are +150 Core +600 Mem on Equihash with EWBF
When mining Afterburner is telling me my GPU usage is 100% on all of them
I’d imagine that your at the limit of your psu. That smell is the capacitors about ready to burst or have done so already. Also one other place to look is right at the 6 pin connectors. Touch them and see if they feel hot. If it’s hot enough to make that smell it’s melting the coating off right near the 6 pin. I’d suggest adding that last card to another psu.
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I added a fourth GPU. A Evga 1070 ti to my rig with 3 1070s. Everything works fine and i had 4 cards in it before running fine just decided to replace one with a 1070ti and was running great for 3 hours but there is a faint burning smell but I can’t pinpoint it. Nothing seemed off. The only thing wrong on my rig is one of the slide locks on my mint cell risers snapped off in an incident weeks ago but the card is fully inserted and functioning fine. I’m not sure if the smell is due to the heat they are putting off or what it could be. To ensure my wife can sleep tonight I turned the rig off and will troubleshoot again tomorrow but don’t know where else to check or how to check if everything is working fine. Any thoughts?
My system set up is
3x 1070 MSI Gaming X
1x EVGA 1070 Ti EVGA
1k PSU
3 Mint Cell Risers
120gb SSD Win 10
OC Settings are +150 Core +600 Mem on Equihash with EWBF
When mining Afterburner is telling me my GPU usage is 100% on all of them
My system set up is
3x 1070 MSI Gaming X
1x EVGA 1070 Ti EVGA
1k PSU
3 Mint Cell Risers
120gb SSD Win 10
OC Settings are +150 Core +600 Mem on Equihash with EWBF
When mining Afterburner is telling me my GPU usage is 100% on all of them
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