CastleCrusher

Yeah, that might be helpful. I plan on using it for a budget gaming PC. I know I'm going to use a second gen i5 with a repurposed Optiplex motherboard. I'm not entirely sure about the graphics card but I'm thinking about using an R9 380 I recently got though I may use an RX 470/570 or 570/580.

I'd be paying like a little under $30 bucks for it. Even then I think I'd be better off getting something from EVGA B-Stock.

I'm about to pull the trigger on a 600 watt FSP 600-80EPN power supply, but I'm wondering if it's a good option. The specifications seem to be promising for a 600 watt power supply and I know FSP makes some really solid units. I'm not sure of the quality of the components that are inside, but everything on paper seems to checkout. Should I reconsider or am I good to purchase a few of these? Thanks

Yeah, not a lot of games run very well with it though that can be due to other things too. My personal favorite game, After Burner Climax, runs perfectly with minimal performance issues. For the short time I played it on an actual PS3, it feels almost the same. I haven't cared enough to mess around with other titles, but that game runs really well even on less powerful hardware. I played it on my 2200G once.

Idk what your style is, but I like the look of the DLM21 from darkFlash. I've never built in it personally, but it looks to have decent airflow and decent enough build quality.

It's an FSP FSP250-30AGBAA Rev. 1. I can attach a picture if needed.

Gotcha. I just didn't want to get something else if I didn't need to but looks like this isn't worth my time. Thanks!

The only adapters I've been able find are to convert the motherboard connecter to be used with a standard ATX power supply, not the other way around.

It was my understanding that FSP power supplies are okay in quality but maybe I'm wrong?

So I recently upgraded a Lenovo Ideacentre 700-25ISH, and I'm left with a 250 watt FSP power supply. It uses only two cables, a proprietary 10-pin for the Lenovo motherboard and a 4-pin EPS cable. I'm wanting to use it to power an external graphics card. There's adapters for the Lenovo motherboard but not the other way around. I'm not sure of what riser I'm going to use for the finished product, but for now I'm wanting to convert the two cables to a 6 or 8-pin connector(s). I'm assuming that both cables can handle enough current to be able to use at least most of the power supply. Other than cable splicing and a bit of soldering, how would I go about making something like this work? Thanks

Yeah, I replied right after that was posted. Other than being one of the last motherboards made by Intel, nothing much really. No support for V2 chips, a pretty basic looking yet functional BIOS, no Windows 10 support (most boards supported W10 back then if I'm not mistaken), and this being one of the "cheaper" of the 3 Intel released, it doesn't even have a USB 3.0 header.

That's debatable I guess, really there's nothing special about it as a motherboard. Intel doesn't make motherboards anymore and its an X79 board that can overclock cheap Xeons so it offers a lot of value. X79 and X58 boards are hard to find and they're highly desirable.

One of the "lower end" of Intel's X79 boards, the DX79TO. These boards are pretty nice overall in build and are kinda harder to find, but from experience, I'd be wary of using it in a computer for daily use though. I have the nicer of the three boards released by Intel-the DX79SR-and my experience has been rough. Most of my issues are probably due to my graphics card, but keep in mind that it doesn't technically support Windows 10. All official drivers (again, none for W10) have been pulled from Intel's website including BIOS ROMS. The biggest thing to keep in mind that it ONLY supports V1 Sandy Bridge CPUs Other than that, get an E5 1650, overclock it, and you have a pretty solid platform.

Welp, sometimes you can boot an existing install of Windows on an entirely different PC, but I guess it isn't playing nicely here. Your best bet is to either reinstall Windows on another drive than grab all your stuff from the old one, or go back to at least your old board, then backup your stuff and reinstall Windows with your new motherboard.

Ok, so I've seen this question asked quite a few times, but this isn't so much of a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" situation. I bought an untested RX 580, found out it had a short which I wasn't familiar with, attempted to remove a mosfet but failed with a bunch of melted SMDs, but I got it off with a less intense heat gun and it's been working* ever since. The card does work but I'd like to replace some of the caps, the cursed mosfet, and what I'm assuming are the inductors so I can try to overclock and alleviate any instability. My friend removed the bulging caps that I had inflicted damage onto, along with a few inductors. I'm no professional mind you, but I'd say I'm capable of soldering on capacitors and the inductors (correct me if the SMDs with X's on them aren't inductors). Resoldering the mosfet may pose an issue, but anyway, where can I obtain the capacitors, inductors and other SMDs unique to my card? I'd assume capacitors are possible but I'm not sure about the others. There's a lot of burnt smaller caps scattered around, but I don't plan on messing with those. It's a 4GB XFX RX 580 GTS XXX. Thanks