Recent content by ElMeiser

Its not BTC they're after, its ETH [ethereum]. Mining difficulty of BTC makes it so it is no longer profitable with a GPU setup, but only with an ASIC. ETH is also not profitable anymore. If and when the ETH bubble pops, the miners will flood the used market looking to make a ROI off their...

Looking to sell them, The reason im asking is because everywhere from ebay to amazon has inconsistent pricing, and craigslist is pure magic where the prices seem to be high.

EVGA GTX 960 w/ backplate Gigabyte GTX 660 OC Palit gtx 980 (always see that brand go higher than what it's worth) EVGA 660 Ti SSC

The warranty is 1 year, I ordered it last month

I did, I keep it running in background and use MSI Afterburner

I recently got an h100i v2 and sometimes when I wake the computer from sleep, the pump noise makes a loud mid octave grinding noise, so loud that I can hear it outside my h440 (~50 ish db.) A restart fixes the issue. Another minor issue is that at times, the thing will show up in corsair link (I...

a 750ti should be perfect then, you can run it off a 300W PSU

Like DonkeyOatie said, you will NEED to upgrade the PSU, you will be fine with a 400W PSU, just make sure it conforms to the form factor of the computer, if its the 755 and not the SFF, you can do an ATX PSU

So I've read a lot on the 980, 970, and 960 and Nvidia describes that the 970 and 960 are built on the same architecture as the 980, but with the SMM cores disabled, if they are indeed "disabled", is it possible to "unlock" them.

No problem and good luck friend!

The only other thing i can possibly see is that its half way DOA, the PSU, that weird pin you mentioned earlier or something else completely odd and out of scope

I forgot to ask as to what your gpu is in fact, and the metal tip thingy could possibly be it, these sorts of electronics are very sensitive