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Just to have more to compare. I run a older Corsair RM750X (750W) on a power hungry Asus ROG Strix RTX3080Ti 12G OC and AMD Ryzen5 5600X with no issues. (running problem free for about 2 years) PSU rating on mine is 62,5A on the +12V rail. So I also think your fine if the ratings is a true useble 700W PSU

Cant complain

Think nothing of it . This is no problem as long as the cables is not pressed hard against it so it could damage the insulation on the cables.

Over the years (first PC in 2000) I have "future proofed" my rigs with the best or almost the best cards every time I upgraded. Last year I got myself a GTX1080Ti, the upgrade was from a GTX680 direct CU2 TOP card that has served me well and long.(before the 680 it was a GTX285 and before that 8800GTS) So as you can see I always jump over many generations of cards. So going for the top cards has usually worked for me. But things have become so expensive now a days that going for a flagship card is out of most peoples budget. The RTX cards was out when I got the 1080ti, but was reluctant to pay the idiotic price for 20 or so more frames. So my logic is buy big and upgrade less often. Doing this I always have a card that does all the games good enough at the end of its life and always get a huge boost when I finally do upgrade. So save up your money and go as big as you can afford. It's better to jump over some generations and save up money for a flagship card or close to it then to piss money away on some half upgrade thing.

Was flipping trough some old backup files and came across screenshots from Battlefield 2142. Actually does not look half bad considering it's from 2006.

I have almost the same mobo as you, so this is what I would have started checking: Go in to bios(advanced mode/view) then go to monitoring and check voltages for any abnormalitie. The voltages should be VERY close to described voltage on the sensor you are looking at. If you see values that are abnormal? Clean PSU and try that first. second you can try reseating all the connectors in the system. By that I'm talking about video card, RAM and power connectors. Is the voltages still bad, get a new PSU(around 600w + is good) Do a memory check. One stick at a time with memtest or similar software Feel around on the heat sinks on the motherboard for any super hot-spots. Running this mobo hot will make it do weird things. This I have experienced my self while running a bit high OC. Do a HDD check of file structure and health. A bad storage system can do some bad things Hope you get it fixed.

LOL.. Did not catch that pic for some reason.. I had the E8400 @ 3Ghz so I would call this sys with the E7300 good for entertainment and internet browsing on your TV. How high video quality this system would manage will reflect a bit on what graphics card you put in it. But I would not spend allot of cash to get this up and running because even a E84-8500 with mem and motherboard can be bought very cheap used. I see allot off these systems with LGA775 E8400, memory and motherboard selling for as low as $50 up to around $102. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gigabyte-GA-X38-DS4-LGA-775-Intel-E8400-3-0GHZ-Geil-4GB-RAM-/321353338401?pt=Motherboards&hash=item4ad226ce21

For gaming NO, but for media and you get the rest of the parts cheep/free.. Go for it. The Core2Duo is a solid CPU and I still have it fresh in my memory how it performed. Had it in my prew system some years ago now, when I think about it the one I got now is starting to get old(i7 2600K) Do you know witch Core2Duo it is?

I keep it down, cos I want all the air getting sucked out through the top and also cooling the rad. This is in a Corsair 550D so the filter under the case takes care of most of the dust.

Can I just say something... Go Win7 64bit. Have Windows 8 on my laptop and I do not see it winning my vote.. I run Win7 on my main rig

OK people.. I did the "put both drives in my main rig and HDD clone" and it was a complete success. Thanks for your input guys

I have not done it. And yes a USB to SATA would be the thing, but I'm looking to do this now.

My only concern is that Windows7 changes the drive somehow so it doesn't boot when it's back in the laptop. Thanks for quick response man

Hello. I have a laptop that only has one sata connection and wanted to clone my current Win8 partition to a new and bigger drive that is going in to this laptop. This job is a usually a no brainer when you have more than one sata connection for HDD. Now I have thought of using a clone program and do a clone of the old drive that's in the laptop to the new drive that will be hooked up in my main rig(desktop) and then take the new drive out of the main rig and swap it for the old one in the laptop. I have very little knowledge about networking so I thought if it would be possible to just hook up both old and new laptop drives in my main rig and do the cloning there. My main concern with this method is after plugging in the old laptop drive with my Win8 install on it will Windows7 64bit(main rig) destroy/fiddle with it so it does not boot any more and clone the same problem to the new drive? I do not have any USB to SATA or any other USB HDD or thumb-drive to put the image/clone on so you can see my dilemma. I have all ready checked if I could take out the optical drive in the laptop and use that SATA for the new drive, but it has another form factor and will not physically fit a standard SATA plug. I was thinking of using AOMEI Partition Assistant as the cloning software. All help is welcome. Kim.

Thanks for the input guys. I have the installed drivers for the Marvell and Jmicron chips and they are showing.. It's just that I seem to recall that you could go in to a controller and see witch HDD is connected, and also do a speed test. But that may be back in the XP days.. I have become a lazy user after windows7 and never taken the time to learn it as god as I did with windows XP. Thanks again guys

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I just reinstalled my system after a HDD went bad on me and had to get a new one. I'm not sure if this is normal behavior and I don't recall if it was like this on the prew installation. I have the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe MB with a Intel quad core i7 2600k(1155) I have installed all the correct drivers including Intel's Rapid storige software. Is it normal that the SATA controllers are gone from the device manager and only show one SATA controller instead of all of them like on my other systems. All drives are working as they should. Running Windows 7 64bit Home Premium. All help is welcome :)

I have been using the BenQ XL2410T for over a year now and the response time on this thing is just outstanding. I play mostly FPS games and need the quick response time. I did not buy this monitor for 3D so I cannot give any comment on it's performance in this mode. The only drawback is color dept on this monitor, but with allot of tweaking you can make it look pretty decent. I got it to the point that that I'm very happy with this monitor and will never go back to a 60hz monitor again. One pretty annoying thing about this monitor is the control buttons for the menu, no light's to indicate where they are and can be a hazel to use(has been fixed on the XL2420T model), but considering the performance this monitor is putting out it's a miner complaint. I would recommend this monitor to a friend in a hart beat.

I mostly play BF3 now a days.