Recent content by mrsaturn7085

New power supply is in; everything else appears to be functioning properly!

I called Corsair and they set up an advanced exchange rather than a standard RMA. Should have it early next week. In the meantime I swapped out the SATA and power cables on my three drives for some really nice combo cables that showed up in the mail. Went from using 3 modular SATA power...

PSU was completely dead - submitting RMA to Corsair later today.

As an electrical engineer, I've toasted my fair share of electronics and immediately tried smelling the PSU and GPU. Both had a faint hot-as-hell electronics smell but neither had the room-clearing stink that I'm accustomed to. I didn't see any smoke but it did take me a moment to get the case...

Last night I was stress testing the overclock I could achieve on my graphics card using eVGA Precision and eVGA OC Scanner. I had GPU-Z open at the time as well. I was running below 80deg C @ 810-875MHz core clock (shader synced to 2x core) and I did not modify the standard GPU voltage of 1.05V...