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Americans have to be used to the 80 plus standard because they have to cater for the rest of the world, We (the rest of the world) aren't that interesting to the US so why bother catering for your voltages?

Could be the PCIe Slot as well, try a different slot first and see what happens, also make sure you did connect the PCIe power cords in the correct slot of the PSU since just because it fits does not mean it's supposed to sits. Make sure about the power cords first and then attempt the rest. to stop the guessing game, do the following, disconnect all the power cords from the GPU, connect the screen to the GPU. Power on and see whether the GPU even lights up and on the screen it should request you to plug in the PCIe Power connectors (you'll see a visual) Edit: also the fans won't spin up at first on a lot of GPUs they only start spinning once the GPU hits certain thermal points

get the 480 now, you will feel the difference trust me. upgrade the rest later. why in the hell would you do that? I have a 980 in a core2quad system and it performs a load better than a better setup with a 750 would. the GPU is the heart of a gaming rig. Sure he will bottleneck the hell out of the card, it'll still be LOADS faster than his 750 Ti

erm also recheck the linked ram, it's laptop memory

Gave my Girlfriend's brother a Core 2 quad and a 980 (got it free, it has small artifacts, little red dots) and he's gaming the living hell out of any game on his 1280 x 1024 monitor, The Red dots only appear in some games so he's really happy with it

You can't do this method on windows no, but starting up a VM capable of running basic games like LOL, CSGO etc. on a second monitor and just selecting which connected devices to link to the VM is damn easy to do and will work with 1 GPU. Otherwise he can use that method yes, it requires 2 GPUs and the VMs have better performance, but he's a kid wanting to let his little brother also play his games. With VMWare it is possible. do it with 2 cards, if my method seems to not pull enough performance for your little bro then it'd be better to have a second card for doing it the "official" way. Google search this, there are great guides out there, then decide which method looks best, if you're stuck between two link them on the forum and ask for suggestions afterward. VMware does require some setting up and if you don't do everything correctly the performance for the VM's games will be horrid.

I did this on Windows, however I agree with VT-d being a must, otherwise performance is horrid, but anyone able to overclock can change the setting in their bios to enable VT-d (it's easier than overclocking actually, just need a capable CPU)

I used VMWare, Though I believe it costs a pretty penny (got mine free though coza work back then) I wish they'd make a version that was affordable for kids that could max run one extra OS or w/e

I'd get a better rig for this, but I'd definitely do a 2 gamers 1 pc rig myself once I have my second 1070. I used to have one set up back in 2011-2012 with my gtx 680 being the only gpu and the VM basically just loading off of it whilst I play on the host(do not put your games on dedicated full screen though since that messes up the VM) also taxing the same card, it worked pretty well for what we wanted to do like Borderlands 2 etc ran pretty decent and we could actually LAN pretty nicely.

Thanks, glad Canada isn't messed up haha, I'd like to visit there some day

Canada doesn't fall under state law does it? Why was she denied access?

Dude, for gaming I would really recommend getting the 1070, you can skim down on other things, but the GPU is the heart of a gaming rig. rather look for a cheaper motherboard with all the features you want with less extras than shave all the way down to a 1060 / RX 480 vs the 1070. The 1070 is a beast of a card and mine runs super cool to boot, I have the Asus Strix 1070 and it runs at 65 Celsius during summer in a hot country like South Africa with the fan speed only going up to 45% (this with an overclock on the core to 2.1 GHz)

some things can benefit from having multiple networks connected to the internet at once, such as torrents and some other p2p programs, but overall unfortunately it does not work that way since your browser will choose the network with the highest priority set and ignore the other / use it as a failsafe. Public IPs will differ as well.

great choice, I hope someone locks this thread though, it got derailed damn badly and by people who love to argue about the dumbest crap I've ever heard. Which 1070 did you decide on? I personally love my Asus Strix, it runs damn cool (65 Celsius), performs excellent and it's fairly quiet @ 45% fan speed max (this being in the Summer of a country like South Africa where we hit 40 Celsius easy)

Troubleshooting I guess

try it launching a 3D game and check it, or a benchmark in the background. that is just the idle speed Also do you have windows 10? if so make sure DSR or whatever xbox DSR crap is disabled since that messes CSGO up real bad.

personally I'd take the 1070 and be done with it, however I do live in a country where a 1070 is around 640 usd and a 1080 a wopping 920 usd at the cheapest. If you're stingy about the fps you get take a titan xp and be done with it, otherwise the 1080 is your best bet if you want 150+ frames, if you wanna be more realistic and want great value for your money the 1070 is amazing.

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/733020-rx-480-or-1060-gtx/ read this. The RX 480 has been the no brainer pick since November

only 2k usd? you guys in the US can buy a damn good rig for 2k usd. over here 14% tax gets put on everything (VAT) and then a crapton of import tax is added as well, Here in SA we pay over 640 usd for a 1070 and over 900 usd for a 1080. He can build a stellar rig for 2k

LOL! 2400 > a socket 1150 xeon with 4 cores 8 threads he has a locked i7 there basically. He is fine. do not bother getting anything better, I game on a 8 core 16 thread xeon at only 2.5 GHz and a 1070 and I game just fine. running VMs is a breeze though.

ouch, sorry man it sounds like you lost the lottery there, my Asus Strix is overclocking +200 on the core without breaking a sweat and I can get +1000 on the memory (and I have micron memory on mine) Try reducing the memory, Micron memory has an issue. Search MSI for a bios update to fix the Vram overclockability if MSI released anything.

agreed, as I said, I didn't know you wanted to keep the current system alive. The build really looks great, there's nothing to change aside from user preferences and no one knows what you want better than you do. I also would advise against people telling you to go for a 1080 as its performance isn't worth the extra $ 200 (comparing the MSI gaming with the MSI gaming). you can rather decide on going SLI down the road (not really everyone's thing, but an option)

sorry didn't see the part where you wanted to keep your old system alive, ignore my question about the PSU. About the Keyboard, it's an awesome choice, I have the same one and am loving it, however did you take a look at the K95 Platinum? I hear a lot of people prefering it over the K95 RGB (just a thought to look at, I Love my K95 RGB)