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Uninstall all AMD Catalyst Drivers in control panel. Then use driver sweeper to remove all remaining AMD driver trace files and click on shut down after removal for installing a new card. Install the new card, and download the newest drivers from the Nvidia/AMD website...

Will be fine. The cards height is 140mm. The case supports CPU cooler heights of 155mm - Therefore giving you 15mm --> 1.5cm of room between the top of the card and the case side panel.

First thing I would do is reseat the graphics card and plug back in all PCI cables back into the card. But if you had previous issues prior to the 970 GTX it strongly suggests that the PSU is faulty. Do you have a friends power supply to use or a multi-metre to check if the power supply is...

The Cooler Master website states that your case supports cards as long as the 690 GTX (293mm) The card you listed is only 277mm and therefore will fit. From your cases specifications: 'Max Supported VGA card length: 316.6mm / 12.5 inch' http://www.coolermaster.com/case/mid-tower/k380/

Also just a suggestion - in continuation of the above post: Another viable option would be to upgrade to a cheap Phenom II 955, and later down the line upgrade your motherboard to a 990fx chipset allowing future options for expansion to the AMD FX series. However, with Zen coming out soon, may...

Have you tried downloading SpeedFan and setting the PWM settings to 100% manually? You can also create a custom fan curve within this program. http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Hello, 5500u is a mobile processor and is not designed with overclocking in mind. If you were to overclock, you probably would get only a few 100mhz not only due to the processor being locked but also due BIOS limitations.

On the motherboards BIOS page the earliest BIOS is 'P8H61-M LX R2.0 BIOS 0304'. To run the newer Ivy Bridge processors you will need to update the BIOS to at least 'P8H61-M LX R2.0 BIOS 0308'. Bios 0308 is quite an old BIOS and there are much newer BIOS versions on the page. I suggest...

I suggest using the pea/dot method as the cores are grouped in the middle of the CPU and therefore provides the best coverage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2MEAnZ3swQ In theory though as shown in the above video as long as cores have sufficient coverage, difference in temperature should...

Your RAM is currently running at 3200mhz. It displays in CPU-Z as Frequency/2; so in your case 1600mhz. As for the frequency going up and down. This is because you have speed step enabled in the BIOS, the motherboard changes voltage->frequency to match the load dynamically on the cores to save...

Clean old thermal paste, apply new compound and re-install the CPU Cooler. Good chance that the heatsink is not installed correctly if you did not have this issue with your old CPU. If this does not work, I agree with the above post, get a new CPU cooler.

I don't think you can really go wrong with a freezer 7. I use one on a AMD FX set up, and it does the job nicely. Could OC on it too, but your thermal limit would be much lower than a 212. I would definitely save for a Hyper 212 though, even if it means holding off a month. It out performs most...

As MWP0004 said, I also suspect that the CPU fan is faulty or the thermal compound underneath the fan is not doing its job properly. The final option is to replace the thermal compound and re-seat the heat sink/buy a new aftermarket heatsink. Your GPU temperature is also on the very high side...

90c is way too high and surpassing the max safe rated temperature of the processor. The PC is shutting off to prevent damage. Are you overclocking? If so please reset your BIOS to default settings to rule out user changes causing the overheating. If not: Check your heatsink to make sure it...