Recent content by Josh184

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    [SOLVED] Vertical mounting kit recommendations

    https://upload.picpaste.me/image/bEijs this is the old set up but same case
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    [SOLVED] Vertical mounting kit recommendations

    No I'm buying a new one from the start as in ive never vertically mounted anything but I know nzxt has been trash and I'm speaking of the pcb back board on the non fanside and yes that link is the card in question
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    [SOLVED] Vertical mounting kit recommendations

    So as I'm am aware of the nzxt riser cables catching fire, I'm curious if anyone has any recommendations for anything but nzxt. I've just gotten a pny xlr8 rtx 3070 and I'm on a msi gaming pro carbon z390 mb and don't really like staring at the back of that ugly pcb I know mb is pci gen 3 and...
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    [SOLVED] Upgrade route questions

    Yea I'm running msi m7 z270 gaming with the 7700k so I figured 8700k 9700k or 9900k with a z390 if I did anything at all but at 800-2500 for a gpu I'll wait for the 4080 to come out before I change cards
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    [SOLVED] Upgrade route questions

    So I have a 7700k ,32gbs of 3ghz ram and a gtx1080. Given the cost of graphics cards sky rocketing and availability being crap is there any real options for a cpu upgrade that would actually increase performance for a rational cost or would I just waste money only to end up with a bottleneck...
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    Question would it be possible to swap a i3 380M for an I7 640m on a laptop

    well i tried my luck and it works just fine Cpu was only 35$
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    Question would it be possible to swap a i3 380M for an I7 640m on a laptop

    so i'm doing some homework on a old laptop i've being given, its a toshiba l670 right now it has a i3 380M and from what i can tell its not soldered into the MB and uses the G1 socket , i know i will need to swap a chip with integrated graphics. im well skilled in building and the cpu's are of...
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    Issues with corsair ram and my motherboard

    turns out is was a bad psu
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    Issues with corsair ram and my motherboard

    Back in September 2017 I bought a DIY kit with a Msi m7270 the 7700K chip and 2 sticks of corsair ddr 4 2133mhz , as if now I've had to replace both the ram twice and the motherboards once to be safe but I'm having issues seemingly always loosing 1 of the two ram sticks I have installed is It...
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    question about the combination of msi m7 z70 and corsair cx750 m psu

    ya i had an old psu that had the 4 pin and the 8 pin eps but when i changed to the cx750m i lost the 4 pin eps and while the system runs fine on only the 8 pin eps i wondered about how to get the 4 pin eps back if possible
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    question about the combination of msi m7 z70 and corsair cx750 m psu

    i was looking to buy a new set of custom psu cable and happend to not originally hook up the P4 cable on my mother board do to not originally having one to use, Is there something thats made to go from 6 pin connection in the psu to that 4 pin cpi power 2 P4 cable or is it not made
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    Replacing motherboard on older rig

    I bought a new case recently and noticed that none of the equipment connections line up with the current motherboard I have. I would like to buy another motherboard so I can hook them up but currently have a lenovo factory b85m mother board and 4460 it cpu and ddr3 1600 ram any suggestions