Smoke smell from Asus Rampage 4 Extreme
Hi Guys,
I was attempting to take the 3D mark 11 crown on the EVGA forums for SLI machines.
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1506980 (My Scores on Page 5.)
Anyways, I was able to OC my CPU up to 4.8-4.9 for these benchmarks. In order to keep up I tried to OC to 5.0. This is when I smelled smoke and immediately turned off my PC. I have checked everywhere on my motherboard and video cards and I cannot see any evidence of burning whatsoever. The smell came from the back end of the case. Now I am unable to boot at 4.8 at all. I can now only be stable at 4.5. In your opinion is this a motherboard issue? CPU issue? I have warranty for all of my stuff. Should I just keep going with my current 4.5 settings and consider myself lucky? Or, is my PC a ticking time bomb waiting to flame out?
Specs:
Asus Rampage 4 Extreme
3930k
GTX 680xSLI
OCZ Vertex 3 Raid 0
Silverstone 1500 watt psu
16 gigs of G-SKill DDR 3 2133
I'd really appreciate the thoughts of the experts.
Thank you.