Recent content by toasty99

Yeah my bad I meant the 6 and 8 pin plugs that go into the GPU. It's still confusing me so much. My 7950 is working just fine, but this r9 290x won't even let me turn the PC on when the 6 pin power connector is plugged in. Got a feeling that's my problem, but how exactly do I take a gpu apart...

Ok still confused. Now I have another issue. After the last shutdown the psu running the GPU will turn on, but only with the 4 pin pci-e power cable disconnected. The 6 pin can stay in and it will turn on, but not the other way around. So is it possible the gpu has some kind of issue with the 4...

Well, what failed wasn't the psu running the motherboard and cpu, it was the one running just the GPU. So it doesn't really make much sense.

Ok follow up: I considered the possible issues suggested. My power supply is 500 watt which is what I was trying to run it on. So, to solve any power issues I grabbed an old 400w PSU and put my CPU and motherboard on that leaving the GPU the 500 watt power supply to itself. As for the driver...

OK so I purchased an r9 290x hoping to be able to repair it because it was fairly cheap. The card boots to bios no problem all the time. Booting to Windows is hit or miss but I can get it to boot and act normal to at least use the internet for like 10 minutes before the screen just goes black or...

So I am using a Xeon x5650 on a Intel dx58so motherboard. Problem is that I can only run it on that board with a newer bios version. I'm trying to overclock it, and had to pull the cmos battery cause I went too far. Anyways, that caused it to reset the bios version. Anyone know a way to either...

Plenty of people have already run Xeon x5650 processors on the motherboard I have. Most x58 motherboards don't officially support xeons but almost everything I've read shows that it makes no difference. For example: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2640713/x5650-dx58so-intel.html

So I just put together a new PC. It turns on, runs for like 3-5 seconds, then turns off. It then automatically turns on again and it stays on. However, it won't display anything on the monitor. Anyone know why this is? Specs below Cpu: Xeon x5650 Mobo: Intel dx58so GPU: Radeon 7950 PSU...

Just curious what engineer sample skylake i7 is the best to buy. The most interesting to me is the qh73 because it has the highest clock speeds stock, but I can't find any info on that particular one. Anyone know what it can overclock to?

Basically I am planning on getting a LGA 1366 motherboard and a Xeon x5650 and overclocking to 4 GHz. However, the plan is for this to be a budget build as the CPU only costs around $30 to $40, so I want a cheap motherboard too. I'm not overly worried about quality, just want something that can...

Considering an upgrade to my phenom ii 955. I mostly use the computer for gaming, but with dx12 showing more cores getting used I want to do a 6 core setup. Sandy bridge xeon and Ryzen seem good but both will cost around the same for a motherboard/CPU combo at about $370. The Westmere 6 cores...

http://m.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Optiplex-745-760-755-740-330-320-Case-For-Parts-/122040021783?hash=item1c6a26f317%3Ag%3AhewAAOSwTuJYwWau&_trkparms=pageci%253Adbcadfdf-0cd6-11e7-a58d-74dbd180a8f7%257Cparentrq%253Ae7f4be4115a0a606358a4926fffc4a43%257Ciid%253A2 So this is the cheapest Dell case I seem...

http://m.ebay.com/itm/8HPGT-Dell-Precision-T3600-Socket-LGA-2011-DDR3-Motherboard-/282400798975?hash=item41c06638ff%3Ag%3AnWsAAOSwCU1YxIYj&_trkparms=pageci%253A172bcabe-0cd6-11e7-b03c-74dbd180ae5d%257Cparentrq%253Ae7efb5a815a0a62286149b09fffc140c%257Ciid%253A1 Based on the photo on eBay that...

It is from a Dell t3600. Any way to know for sure if it is proprietary?

The problem with that is an atx LGA 2011 motherboard costs over $150. So I'm saving lots of money doing it this way as long as I can find a case for this on eBay. I don't care how it looks by the way, it can be an ugly old Dell case as long as it supports a normal psu and I can fit my GPU in.