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Recently, I upgraded my GPU from an HD 7770 to an HD 7970, and I noticed I was getting FPS drops in games. I figured the VRMs were overheating on my old board (ASUS M5A78L-M LX V2) so I got a new board. A Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3. Apart from the unrelated issue of a winows crash on startup, which was...

Well, I spent 2 hours on a train to get a PSU. Got a Corsair cx500 AND the train ticket for the price my local shop charges for random no-brand PSUs. Even slept through the whole journey..both ways. Anyways, plugged it in and had the same problem. Gfx card spinning up and down over and over...

Okay, so I cracked open the PSU. First thing: turns out to be an Alpine Silence 600 watt. I remember it was an emergency purchase from my local computer shop when I had a previous PSU failure. I also remember balking at the price and thinking they were charging double what it should cost. Having...

No, it's an old board. The socket is VGA. I think I might have a VGA to DVI adapter somewhere, so I'll give that a try. Ahhh. just turned my head and I'm looking at one. Edit. Nope. DVI to VGA. Wrong way around, so...nope no way to try onboard GFX at the moment. And all the old RAM I've been...

Braindead. There's nothing. It doesn't even look like the SSD is being accessed. The GPU fan spins up and down rhythmically. The screen keeps going into power saving mode. I can turn it off and back on, but it stays black, and goes back into power saving mode after a few seconds. Without the...

Well, I'll bear that in mind if I can get the damn thing to work. ;)

Well, clearing the Cmos didn't work. And I tried an old GFX card, and it had exactly the same issue. I don't think it's that I'm getting no signal, or the monitor usually says so. The monitor says DVI power saving mode and goes into standby. hmmm...I suppose I should have started a new thread...

ahhh....the issue may have been decided for me. i think my GPU might be dead. Was having a little play with AMD overdrive (Never changed any GPU settings there, because it never even detected my card, even though it's an AMD card) ran the windows experience index and got the error about unable...

I remember running Maya just fine with a 1.2gz single core and 125Mb of ram. lol. But I often had render times of a week or more for a 30 second scene. The board apparently will support double the RAM I have installed, and (if the RAM I have is really 1333mhz) much faster Ram. But I'm sure the...

Yeah, that's one of the conflicting sources. The manual that came with the board states a max of 8gb. However, I noticed that the manual doesn't say V2 on the front, but that's what cpu-Z reports the board as, so I guess that's just an oversight on ASUS's part and they didn't update the manual...

Okay, so quite a while back I built my first system. My goal was to get good bang for my buck. That's all, really. I'm not into games, but I do quite a bit of video editing and 3d animation and rendering. I'm kind of thinking the Mobo might actually be the best thing to upgrade, since it only...

Well, I meant using the hardware I already have, but I'll have to try a SSD at some point, so I may put my OS on a SSD, all other programs on the 10,000rpm drive and write to the 720rpm drives in a RAID 0 array. Then again, in a complex scene or video composition, there's a major bottleneck...

All I do for backup is copy each days work onto an external drive. It's fine for me, since I'm not under time constraints, and I still have all the raw footage backed up in the form of the DV tapes. If I remember rightly, RAID 0 pretty much halves reliability and doubles write speed. (I know...

It's an old case and the first time I've replaced a motherboard. Hell, I never even noticed the holes weren't raised at the time. Still, you live and learn. Won't be making that mistake again. I don't have the stand-offs, but I have plenty of thick surgical tubing which will do the job nicely.

Hi, I have three hard drives and I was wondering how best to utilise them for best performance. I currently have my operating system on my WD 10,000 rpm drive (It's one of the very unreliable 74gb models, so I don't like to put stuff I'm working on on it). My other programs are mostly on a...