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It will work quite well for a while. I still use an i7 930 and it works like a champ. The 2600 will work very well, especially as you aren't planning on doing intense games.

I have a 770 and I have no issues with it. What is happening in your case?

The motherboard I just picked up for my xp machine.
 
DFI LANPARTY  nF4 SLI-DR
1GB OCZ DDR 400 Dual Channel
AMD athlon 64 3000+
XP Pro
 
Will post pics of all my other stuff when I have some time. I have a Pentium @ 70mhz, Celeron 333MHz, Pentium 4 2.66GHz, Pentium 4 HT 3.0Ghz in various msi, intel and gigabyte motherboards. I also have a bunch of AMD processors and boards as well.

The motherboard I just picked up for my xp machine.
 
DFI LANPARTY  nF4 SLI-DR
1GB OCZ DDR 400 Dual Channel
AMD athlon 64 3000+
XP Pro
 
Will post pics of all my other stuff when I have some time. I have a Pentium @ 70mhz, Celeron 333MHz, Pentium 4 2.66GHz, Pentium 4 HT 3.0Ghz in various msi, intel and gigabyte motherboards. I also have a bunch of AMD processors and boards as well.

Yes I do agree with you on that one!

The motherboard I just picked up for my xp machine.
 
DFI LANPARTY  nF4 SLI-DR
1GB OCZ DDR 400 Dual Channel
AMD athlon 64 3000+
XP Pro
 
Will post pics of all my other stuff when I have some time. I have a Pentium @ 70mhz, Celeron 333MHz, Pentium 4 2.66GHz, Pentium 4 HT 3.0Ghz in various msi, intel and gigabyte motherboards. I also have a bunch of AMD processors and boards as well.

Thank you, I quite like it. I am running a BFG 450W PSU and a zotac nvidia geforce gt 610 2gb synergy edition.
 
I agree, having to reinstall that often is a pain.

The motherboard I just picked up for my xp machine.
 
DFI LANPARTY  nF4 SLI-DR
1GB OCZ DDR 400 Dual Channel
AMD athlon 64 3000+
XP Pro
 
Will post pics of all my other stuff when I have some time. I have a Pentium @ 70mhz, Celeron 333MHz, Pentium 4 2.66GHz, Pentium 4 HT 3.0Ghz in various msi, intel and gigabyte motherboards. I also have a bunch of AMD processors and boards as well.

The M.2 slot isn't for fans.
That's for M.2 drives like the samsung 960 evo.
 
So, yea remove that.. get a fan hub if you don't have enough mobo fan headers.
They're not expensive. Just get a small one that you can hide behind the motherboard tray.
 
As for the FPS drops, I don't see how just adding a few fans could cause that drop unless it has something to do with you having something that shouldn't be plugged into the M.2 slot, but I doubt it.
 
Maybe try using DDU to remove your video card driver in safe mode and then install the newest driver for your video card from the Nvidia site. If that one doesn't work, repeat the process but try using a slightly older driver.
 
https://windowsreport.com/display-driver-uninstaller-windows-10/
 
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx
 
If that doesn't help, list your system specs here and also hit start - type reliability history - find any red errors - double click them for more details and copy/paste what they say here.
 
 

After you upgraded your hardware, did you happen to reinstall Windows? If you didn't, it would be a good idea to transfer all of your important files and steam games to an external drive and wipe & reinstall Windows. It could be that because you have upgraded your hardware the system has a lot of left over drivers and things that are going to mess things up.

The SSD is/was mated to the old system when Windows was installed.  When you just pull the SSD out of the old machine and put it in the new mobo, it doesn't recognize the new mobo.  This is the primary reason that when installing a different or new drive into a system as the bootable drive it is strongly recommended to do a clean, fresh install.  If possible, put it in a system as a slave drive.  That way you will be able to save your data, documents, files and pictures.
After "hopefully" saving your stuff from the drive, then you can put it in the new mobo (system) and go ahead and install everything and it should work.

I'd say selling your current card and getting a single 1080ti or newer card is a better investment in the long run 

WARNING: This method is a last resort but will get you results. FULLY READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS

Okay so
Open device manager and find the device in it. This is generally the item under Other Devices with a Yellow triangle

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  Right click and choose properties Choose Details, then select Hardware IDs

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  Right-Click the Top Value and choose Copy Paste the value into google Be VERY careful not to install any Driver Identifiers or Driver Updaters as 99% of the time they're scammy as hell get out but you should be able to find a link to a zip with the installer for the hardware.

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I had a laptop given to me that was doing the same thing. The reason it was happening on my laptop was because the hard drive had died, it was still seen in the BIOS but it didn't work anymore so it would just boot to the BIOS whenever I started the laptop.

No, it's not illegal. Hosting it is, and although downloading some copyrighted content can get you in hot water, if you're not distributing or selling it, the FBI has better things to do than plan raids on a single person who just wanted to play Pokemon Red.

No, unless you own a copy of the game, it is illegal.

Hello,
 
My name is Rob, avid LTT viewer but haven't really posted anything on the forum so I thought I would just say Hi. I am a computer technician & huge retro PC gamer, DOS 6.22 & Windows 3.11 being my favorite OS, dos games are the best! (I know some wouldn't consider this "retro" but its what I grew up with so it is to me lol). I am currently in the market for a 386/486 PC but the prices are crazy. I have 2 386 motherboard but they are missing the keyboard controller & bios chips. Anyway, now i'm just rambling on.
 
Thanks for reading, have a good evening!
-Rob