russellrequiem I wasn't talking about you, you being called a fool by gytisxp for asking a question on a forum, for people.... that need questions answered! lol
As an electricain you NEVER work with the power on enless you HAVE to!, that goes for EVERYTHING!, you probs fried your motherboard, lucky not yourself, think before you touch!
Yeah you could, just a shame you dont a K cpu you could overclock that then, that said, you should be able to run all cores on turbo with a little bck tweak to make it alot faster but if you do that I would get a better cooler.
the 970 has 3.5gb of memory not 4gb as stated, as 0.5 is gimped, if you got the cash go with the 980, and get a 1440p 144hz gsync monitor. you wont regret it ;)