Computer speed severely dampened, Shut off on its own, won't turn back on.

[Mbbird]

Okay what did I do. Two days ago I was playing all my games fine, better than ever actually since I had just solved my connection problems. Yesterday I was playing and my games were stuttering for about 1-2 minutes straight regardless of what was going on.

Today it was unusable. Stuttering on all games no matter what I did. Main menu on some games it would have about a second of lag, after about a minute of already low FPS, it would stutter unendingly. Tried to play men of War with some friends (lagged at the menu, steam overlay was retarded, etc) but in game it was like 1 FPS. In the scoreboard it has 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 bars to estimate the user's rig's power at that point in time. Mine is usually 4, and everyone else I play with is either 3 or 4. Today mine was 0.

Restarted in safe mode, and was scanning with Malwarebytes and S&D for about 3 minutes before my computer died. It just turned off. I've got this green light above the power button that tells me whether the computer is on or not and it was green, even after dying. Unplugged my computer, plugged it back in, wouldn't turn on.

There's a burning smell. How bad is this?

[[EG] Pepper]

have you checked temps?

[Mbbird]

Temps? I don't know how I would. All I noticed was the burning smell, which is too hot to be good.

[phyton92]

Try to find out what gives out the burnt smell, and inform us.

[lkhrizl]

Burning smell = time to buy a new hardware

[Mbbird]

I think it's the power supply. Does that sound right?

I need to build a new computer anyway. It's some prebuilt 2005-6 Compaq with an added 9400 and a couple gigs of RAM. Not a huge deal, I've been planning on it for a while, guess nows the time.

[Psycommu]

[QUOTE=bootv2;25913262]that doesn't sound right to me since you where having performance issues. I think it was you gfx card.[/QUOTE]

or processor, maybe

[Mbbird]

Is there any way I could check without spending any? I don't really need to know anyway, I'd rather just begin work on my upcoming PC as apposed to spending more on this one.

[Psycommu]

Open up the case and look for burnt/melted areas.
Also look for busted/bulging capacitors on the motherboard. They look like little batteries standing upright in plastic wrapping.