Recent content by Skaterjay789

Have you tried using another monitor at all or the onboard graphics with a VGA? Could help us thin down the list of potential issues

if you run into a black screen issue, especially after overclocking...............reset cmos as posted above ^

That is all going to depend on your personal system, You'll get the biggest advantage of the card you choose if your system supports it.

You could do that yes as long as you have your USB drivers functioning! Ran into this a few weeks ago and ended up buying a disk drive when I could have done it through USB, but for my situation USB was not working.

With that rig you have there 450 would probably do it but go to like 500 + in case you decide to upgrade. You'd be surprised how much wattage a computer actually doesn't use but no need to test that theory. 520 Watts as suggested above sounds great ^

Sell it to a buddy who is building their first rig or put it in the international library of your old computer parts. Cut the bus off and melt it down for gold. Use it as a hammer to put up that painting you've always wanted to put up.

Would you happen to have a picture of the inside of your system you could show, might be able to see from that if you did in fact connect something incorrectly. The fact that the on system graphics aren't working points to an issue in the build. Try resetting the CMOS and give an update.

Try your Windows Volume Mixer options and recording device options (right-click the speaker icon in the lower right corner) that or double check your settings in the game that is causing the issue. As of this date I have that recent Realtek driver and things seem to work great but I would get a...

^ As mentioned above, haha I read this title and was shocked to think there was like this giant padlock or something. Just push the clip in and pull!

Wi-fi can be one of those things with gaming, I'd suggest finding a way to hard wire it or buy a good switch and a few Ethernet cords and make that sucker reach. You're going to find that if you game over wifi its gonna lag out and with most if not all games using TDP you're gonna get latency...

You can purchase a electronic air duster on amazon for about 40 bucks may save you money in the long run if you have a dog and a dusty house like myself. I myself completely unplug the pc and dust it outside on my back porch with compressed air that way you actually get rid of the dust. Cleaning...

could go out of your way to get a PSU tester, wouldn't recommend it though. May have to RMA that PSU if nothing seems to be powering on at all unfortunately.

if those temps start to get way up the in the past 85 C point thats not a good thing

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ this will help you monitor the temps

What processor do you have? and do you also have an efficient CPU cooler. When you overclock you increase the voltage which will then increase the heat output so its very important to have a good cooler and good airflow. Some CPU models are easy to OC like an Intel i5 3470 non-K edition which...