Recent content by thedevroyes

Thanks. Just remembered that I cheaped out last minute and got an i5 7600. But still that is a 7th gen, so you may have solved it for me. Although, not a free solution, at least it may prevent further aggravation. Thanks for the quick reply.

Forgot to mention that I am plugging into the 2.0 USB ports in the back of the PC. Although, while in bios, the mouse and keyboard will work in the 3.0, I had that problem before as well. Last thing, the DVD drive hangs with or without a disk. When I open thte DVD drive, booting up...

I had an HP envy tower that was pretty decent, but I wanted an upgrade. I bought EVO 850 SSD and 2 TB Firecuda. I decided to get a better processor and mother board. I got an i7 7700 and the above mentioned ASUS z270 Mark 2. Build seemed to go well, powered up into bios. All looked good...

May have just found another issue. I think I'm going to move to a new case. The power supply on my SFF Dell 9020 is 255 Watts. Even if it fit, Zotac recommends 300 W, as it draws 75. Looks like I'm moving on to plan B.

Thanks. That's helpful. I haven't one yet in my $150ish price range. Instead of jumping up to $250, I'm thinking about maybe getting a new case. and keeping the 1050 ti I bought for $125. Great deal. Then I would room to do other things. Here is a link to what I have. Really a nice...

Not sure how to post a picture. I don't think a riser cable will work, but I might try it. Any particular reason you wouldn't recommend it? A lot of vibration and not being fixed in a slot. Although it would be pretty snug in there. The Inno3d looks like a solution not for sale yet, but...

I have a mini dell optiplex 9020. I'm trying to upgrade the graphics card. I was looking at something in the 1050 ti price range. $150ish. I have a double wide slot available, but with the cooling sytems on the bottom of the GPU, I only have room for a single slot pcie x16 The next slot...