Recent content by chunks4123

An update: It was the video card! The damn thing is defective. My PSU probably would've handled it, afterall. Cost me $100 bucks to troubleshoot this. I'm in the process of RMA'ing my video card now.

Uh, this is coming from a marketing exec? What does he know about pc development?

Looks like I'm cutting it close with my PSU... I'll just go for an upgrade then. Man, I've dumped too much into this upgrade, oh well.

520watts. 265w plus my hdd's, case fan and cpu fan shouldn't overload my psu, should it?

So last night I installed a new hsf, a radeon 6950, and new ram. When I first booted, BIOS said my CPU settings had changed... not sure what that means. CPU temp is around 30c at idle in BIOS. Windows starts up fine but then within 5 mins or less the monitor will go into standby mode and either...