Recent content by Quigone

I opened up the old PSU and the guts were a terrifying mess of crusty, burnt and melted red plastic everywhere, I can’t believe it still powered the board and didn’t burn the thing to a crisp So I ordered a 500W evga psu which arrived yesterday, plugged in my components and hallelujah! The used...

Arhh what a mess, thank you I’m starting to understand this clearer now your reply lead me to read the tomshardware powersupply101. It’s one of those dud fake info ones I’m seeing mentioned? So between the few years that it had worked with the GPU and now that it’s not working anymore had it...

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thanks for your reply, do you think it’s possible that even though in BIOS the voltage is a healthy 11.9-12 that it could still be insufficient or problematic somehow? I should add that I’ve got it running barebones at the moment, only the SSD, the power button, mobo and whichever GPU I try are...

Thanks for your reply. Sadly I’m living out the bad side of the risk I took, it was from eBay so I guess it’s always a case of sellers word and I hope I haven’t been screwed. What are the odds of both cards my old one and the replacement being completely dead and non detectable whatsoever in...

I’m finding my problem very tricky to determine and can’t find much to help me diagnose it, I really hope someone more knowledgeable can help me Here’s a spec rundown; i5 3450 ivy bridge Gigabyte H61MA-D2V Bios version F7 4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 Ram 256GB SSD enough for my usage 700WATT...