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Cpu Died, Had Burnt Smell, And Won’t Turn Back On

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Burning smell &cpu; died and won’t turn back on.
Specs
INTEL I7-4930K 3.4 GHZ 12M LGA201L
2TB SATA III 6GB/S 7200RPM 64MB CACHE 3.5″ HD
ADATA XPG V2 4GB DDR3 1866MHZ (16 GB RAM total)
CORSAIR HYDRO SERIES H60 120MM LIQUID COOLING
CASE FAN 120 MM
WHITE CFI BOREALIGHT FULL TOWER CASE NO POWER
BLACK LG UH12LS29 12X BLU-RAY PLAYER & DVDRW
GIGABYTE X79-UP4 QUAD CROSSFIRE/ QUAD SLI SATA 3.0 US
*** 800 WATT 80 PLUS POWER SUPPLY
*** NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB GDDR5 PCI-3

*** indicates what I think the problem might be

Not Linux either…

message edited by Clueless79

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  1. ‘CPU’ is your processor (your Intel inside)
    Your burnt smell is more likely the motherboard than your CPU but even more likely your power supply. I see you did not list your make and model on the power supply, this makes me more suspicious of it.
    Open the case, let it air out for a while and see if you can identify where the smell is coming from. Using a strong light, examine everything in detail (do not open the power supply), burnt, burst, browning, leaking components are the thing you are looking for, especially on the motherboard and graphics card. If the smell is clearly from the power supply, simply replace it. If any component has any visible signs as above, replace the entire board.
    Now is also the time to tell us if you had overclocked either the CPU or graphics card (or even the memory). While overclocking will not directly burn out the CPU in general, overvolting it definitely can so list your overclock and voltages.

    You have to be a little bit crazy to keep you from going insane.

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