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WELL time to RMA this Sabertooth.. im not going to lose this baby. Not by a long shot

thanks for the info man. Much appreciated

Talking about the CPU area???.. I think I see 1 or 2 . Man The MSI board I can live with it but the Sabertooth.. Makes me sick. I love a Armor board. Sigh..

Hey guys. got 2 boards that I think I fried Ram slots 3 and 4 on both(witch im sick as hell over) but anyhow need some info for testing them to see if yes they are dead or no they aren't. Boards Z97 MSI Gaming 5 Z97 ASUS Sabertooth S RAM Corsair Dom's Platinum 1600 DDR3 Here is what I did .. I Wanted to test out and see how far the ram could go. Did small oc to 1866 and then 2133 then backed off all in a span of Oh 30 mins on each . Aprox. Now I tested the Sabertooth ist and then the Gaming 5 Anyhow I went back to the sabertooth and as most of you ASUS owners know I when starting the board it goes through a test boot phase of ram then PCI-e etc etc... Ram failed.. Started doing the basics etc .. Put 1 stick in the 1st slot . Start then 1 and 2 slot . Worked . 1 and 3 . FAIL and 2 and 4 fail. I also tested every stick to see if she start. She would. Did a Bios rest , Booted bios and went back to factory sets. Still 3 and 4 wont respond. Even took out the old battery and reset it. Now I never known or even heard of a slot going bad unless it kills the stick of ram with it. is it possible that I killed the slot and the ram survived? Anyone have any other test suggestions? Thanks

LOL its ok bro. I did have a old setup that did.. Remember them magma bricks the 4670's back in the day. Crossfired them to a old Phenom chip . ANYHOW that 500 wat PSU I was using 1 day I noticed some heat hitting my leg.. Looked at it was running something.. Walked away and SNAP!!!!!!!!!! like some fireworks going off. yea was happy that thing died

Let me Re define what I was trying to say in the 1st place . 650 will run it but I wouldn't depend on that PSU lasting too long. It will be hot enough to pop popcorn at the exhaust shortly after any load hits it. Then youll hear a crackle and pop and then no power at all to the tower.

As I had to let others know in the past I have had hands on experience . So yea It would be safer is which the FURNACE comment was made. Anyhow im a sport . Throw Guru and Linus and Jays and Nerdgasm in there with Toms Hardware etc. Its ok. Im just telling what I know HANDS On. . ANYHOW GET A INTEL CHIP DANGIT .. YOU wont go wrong and you be happier . Believe me!

the EVGA 750ti I maxed oc recently on mine and it did well but backing it a tad off at it max I did better scored on Firestrike when I backed it off from my Max OC.. just something to look at when you do this..

650 will do it but youll have a furnace there for a tower

Im interested to know what you are playing that the 970 stutters? or was it a benchmark? :mellow:

Probably right Fox . Im so clumsy now a days. Sign of getting old I guess.

You having the same problems in Firestrike or Valley? Also have you changed your settings in BF4 ? They had a Update patch not too long ago.

Lost 2 RAM slots on my M board other day repacking a motherboard. Could of been me but I was totally static free when moving the product *shrug* .. Boogie man did it LOL

LOL best thing I have learned from Linus is enjoy AC and always have it. :lol:

Sapphire 280 & X , 290 & X does MSI lightning runs 3 fans also Asus etc a lot of AMD runs 3 fans. And as far as Nvidia has a lot more potential.. Well Yea but didn't AMD win for overclocking the GPU this past year and this year???!!!

This should help you understand more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgZ7w7i19Do

Might want to use Part picker and go to the places that sale the items.. Like for instance there will be a 980ti classified will be built 1 way then there be the exact card again but it will be built different.. Research my friend

We have yet to see the 395. If they do 1 and I hope they do.

270 by itself isnt too good anyhow. Barely decent Crossfire