Quote (ozzypride @ Aug 8 2019 10:27am)
Thanks mate, do you think that could be the reason it's crashing?
I think there's enough room in my case :)
I'm unsure as to what thermal pasting is but I'll give it a YouTube thanks for the help my dude :)
In my profile is a video about thermal paste. If you look up the power supply I suggested on Newegg... it will have the dimensions. The only other concern is the 4 screw, pretty standard attachment methodon back of the case... for the power supply.
Here...
https://www.newegg.com/seasonic-s12ii-series-s12ii-620-bronze-620w/p/N82E168171510965.91" x 5.51" x 3.39"
Thermal compound:
https://www.newegg.com/zalman-zm-stg1/p/N82E16835118010?Description=zalman%20stg-2&cm_re=zalman_stg-2-_-35-118-010-_-Producttl;dr version of changing thermal paste.
1. Take the fan and heatsink off the CPU.
2. Clean the old thermal compound off the top of the CPU and the bottom of the heatsink, with isopropyl alcohol and a coffee filter.
3. When dry, put a pea sized blob of thermal compound on the top of the CPU... then attach the heatsink and fan.
Isoproply alcohol is cheap. You can get at any drug store or even a place like Walmart. Get the kind that's 90% or higher.
/e The cause of the problem you're having with the comp, should be....
1. Heat.. which the thermal compound will probably fix.
2. Bad power supply voltages. But that's a shyt power supply... I'd replace in anyhow.
3. W/e caused the wires to melt... may have damaged the vid card. But since it ran fine for a while... it's probably the CPU overheating or the PSU overheating... or both.
This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 8 2019 08:43am