Recent content by CBender

You mean that you didn't use any heatsink with your cpu? You are lucky that intel has working thermal safeguards in place. That was a stupendous mistake that if you have watched any guide (from the thousands) you would know that it is a big no no. I just hope that your mobo and cpu are still fine.

Your only options are the gtx 970 and the 390. There is also the 1060 that too has availability issues. Because the RX 480 and the 1060 are offering more than the previous gen i'd say wait for a month or two. I know it is difficult. I am in the exact same position. But at this point i wouldn't...

To my knowledge it has nothing to do with the motherboard or any other part but the gpu itself. Keep in mind that some factors must be met in order to do this. You have to find a good compatible bios, your card should definitely have 8 gigs of memory, there must be an exact same version of your...

The mobo is fine the case is going to be a tight fit. The way i see it, you might have to cut a part from the hdd cage or go for another case.

I would suggest taking a look at imaging software. When you install windows and all the necessary drivers and basic software you would create and image that then you could apply (back up to) at any given moment. It is great especially if you use a lot of 'big' software. Paragon has one but...

I assume that the entirety of your problems are unfortunately linux based. Drivers as you know are a big problem in Linux and for some reason the power aspect is always getting the worse. Another thing that needs confirmation is how accurately the monitoring software works under linux. All these...

The card should work fine at your mobo. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't. You have to try it on a different or start RMA. Since the 670 works the 1070 should work too.

I wouldn't go with the gigabyte one. There is a lot of talk about coil whine in many of the cards. Actually i would wait a bit just for the 10xx series to 'stabilize' a bit more.

+1 for the power supply. Paper clip proves nothing other than that the power supply provides the lowest possible power to power itself on. The second possible culprit for would be the gpu. But in your case i think that the motherboard is a more likely candidate. The problem is that with such...

+1 for the 480 8gigs. Many benchmarks have shown better results with the 8 gigs even in 1080. If anything the 4 gigs version is a waste of money. Of course in any case wait for the non reference designs since the reference is quite limited and problematic (as usual noise). Also considering...

What is for certain is that if an AMD reached not 100 but even 90c then you would have seen at least a blue screen if not a hard shut down. As sniper said the software doesn't read the temps correctly. Amd cpu i believe max out at around 70 degrees.

Sorry dude. I hope you get every straightened out.

Yes you could. By simple maths (not 100% accurate) you would have a 25-30% higher performance than what you get at 4k. Since 4k is 4x1080p. Depending the games you play i'd say that you should have playable framerates at medium or even high settings.

The paste should hold way more than a year, depending its quality of course. Have you updated/changed the bios settings or the fan settings of the card? Do you hear any different sound coming from the card , like a bad fan? You could check with afterburner if anything have changed on the...

Do you use the same connection cable that u used with the 7970? Did you try the other ports on the monitor or the gpu? Maybe it is time to consider rma the damned thing. Gigabyte seems like that they are on a bad roll since the 9xx series.