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I have been using my pc for more than a week after the PSU change , and there have been no further hardware failures . I am 90 precent sure it must have been the PSU , if there are no further problems within the next month , I will consider the matter closed. Thanks to everyone that...

Did the rewiring , managed to save time by cutting the old cpu power cable and running the new on in front of the motherboard , in doing so I did not have unscrew the motherboard and GPUs . Visual inspection didn't reveal any noticeable burns or points of failure on the PSU or...

Got 750 Seasonic focus gold PSU , going to attempt a rebuild tonight , if another SSD craps out then I will know for sure that it was the motherboard . I turned 500 gb evo in for warranty , the shop said that they were going to ship it to Samsung and not expect anything until the end June.

Yes I agree , but what is the probability that only the PSU is the issue , keeping in mind that the SSD 's were both times daisy chained on the same SATA power cable and only one bricked each time . Should I replace the motherboard or only replacing the PSU?

At this point i see two options , as i dont have the equipment nor the skills to test PSU ( any repair shop i fear would ask more money then a used mother board and 650 EVGA bronze PSU ) the only option to test , that i see is to get the smallest cheap sacrificial SSD that i can find and...

3 days ago after booting up my pc my motherboard BIOS told me that it couldnt find my boot drive(Samsung 850 pro 256 gb) i tested the connections , swapped SATA and power cables but nothing , hooked it up to my other pc , windows storage device manager , and samsung magician saw only an...

I am using two MSI Gaming X GTX 1080 in SLI trough my testing i have determined that when VRAM goes above 5 gb i will start having directx crashes saying i am out of memory , also sometimes windows will have an error saying Andromeda.exe memory low . If VRAM stays below 5 gb every thing...

Thank for the advice I already had external backups plus I made internal ones . As you can see from my previous update I confirm definitely that this is not a PSU issue ,as for mounting when testing I took the drive out of the case and still the same problem ticktock noise only with my main...

Update : i have confirmed that this is not a power issue i used the old rigs power while using the main rigs SATA and vice versa and still the same issue ticktock noise with my main rigs SATA , no noise in any other configuration .

I have had 1 TB seagate 7200 barracuda as one of my storage drives for years it has always made a loud harddrive noise when working but if not accessed it is silent , but recently it has began making a weird ticktock noise constantly , the first thought is that the drive is dying , which would...

its up to u if consider higher resolution worth the lower shadows , tessaltion and ambient occlusion ( u really dont need AA with 4k ) and if u are going with single 970 do not expect more then 30 FPS in games newer then 2010