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Do a web search for "PAX Sound Blaster Z". If your 8 channel set up is good quality, I would give the Xonar a try, no headphones surround emulation will beat the real thing, I have a good 5.1 setup and these days I use headphones only for online gaming, no more. I have nothing bad to say...

Your best bet is one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-GeForce-Overclocked-GDDR5-GV-N970IXOC-4GD/dp/B00OQUMGM0/ http://www.amazon.com/Asus-GTX970-DCMOC-4GD5-ASUS-Graphics-Cards/dp/B00RL2SLAG/

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829132006 http://www.amazon.com/Blaster-Performance-Headphone-Forming-Microphone/dp/B009ISU33E The Xonar will offer you proper 7.1 audio while the Soundblaster Z is limited to 5.1 channels but has a better AMP for when you use headphones...

How much is your budget??

Yes, 650watts will be enough for that system.

If the fans connected to the motherboard are not working there's a good chance the motherboard itself is damaged. Have you tried checking if the computer will display something using the integrated graphics?? It would be a good first step to discard damaged components, if it still won't...

If the PSU has a sole 6 pin connector and the 6870 needs two, that's a red flag and I would advise against it. The 6870 **does not** need 500 watts to work, no idea where did you read that. Be more specific with the rest of your system, the 6870 on load draws almost 250 watts so you could...

Make sure the GPU, RAM and CPU are properly seated.

What kind of PSU do you have?