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I made it 7 years with my Asus ROG 1070, still works. Fairly regular gaming, sometimes very long sessions. I had one XFX 6850 fail after 5 years in another system. Didn't seem to draw any power from one day to the next.

3 x Phanteks T30 intake in the front 2 x Phanteks D30 output through a Phanteks Glacier One CPU radiator cooler on top 1 x Phanteks SK output in the back (came with the case) Illustration here The numbers are just the name of the fan, the max airflow in CFM, the static pressure in mm H2O (not...

I transferred half the system to a new case and motherboard, new ram, new cpu (this new mobo is Ryzen 5000 ready). Same ssd, psu and gpu - exact same problem. Doesn't seem to boot, no signal to the monitor, top two lights on the mobo are on (boot and vga), gpu is slowly blinking red. Gpu fans...

Clearing the CMOS had no effect. Still does not boot.

So I've been running this exact same system for years. Wanted to upgrade to a 5800X3D CPU, hadn't considered I needed to update my bios version, so I put the new CPU in, it didn't boot. Downloaded new bios, put it on a drive that I've used for bios flashing before, didn't work - seemed like it...

Hey, I just wanted to quickly check with you guys if you had any suggestions as to improve the following build: Intel i7 6700k ASUS Z170-A Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 2 x 8 GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 MHz 512 GB Samsung 850 EVO Corsair VS650 PSU CM V650 PSU CM Hyper 212 Evo Corsair...