TheoR

I'm located in Greece. Well, I don't have a budget to be honest. I can wait to upgrade to something that will be reliable. Don't wanna break the bank though. Let's say 60-80, flexible. Do you have any recommendations then? I'm just reluctant to upgrade it because it's my old rig.

So, since I didn't find much about this particular power supply, I wanted to ask for a second opinion (or third). I have this one in my old pc that ran a core 2 quad, and I just upgraded it with a friend's old fx-4300. I'll also update my rewer rig with a new gpu and was thinking of pluggin the rx 580 into this one. Having done a bit of research I came to the conclusion that I won't have an issue with the supply, but I am a bit worried since I had trouble with another bad psu in the past, that blew up my (then new) gpu. So my question is, basically: is it safe to do or should I upgrade the psu as well?

As I discovered, it is like you said, the screws of the cooler have a smaller diameter than the normal screws, so that's why I cannot screw them in, so I cannot use the stock backplate. That means I need to wait for corsair to help me out. I don't know if I can purchase a backplate that will work with their smaller screws or a replacement for the coolers included one.

They do fit into the stock backplate, I tried it today, but sadly one screw does not screw correctly. And I checked, it's the backplate's fault, the cooler screws correctly on the older backplate. I tried the hair dryer on the adhesive, it softened a bit but I still couldn't get it off. I was thinking about buying a replacement backplate. I also contacted corsair to see if I can buy a replacement backplate only from them, but I doubt that is possible. Weird problem, thanks for the suggestions tho!

Happy new year everyone! So this is a weird problem, I had to get another motherboard for my system, because of a weird compatibility issue my motherboard had with the gpu. The problem i encountered this time is that I cannot for the life of me remove the backplate that came with the AIO cooler, it is stuck to the old motherboard. I used the corsair h55 to cool my fx-8320, but the cooler was not installed by me. However, the guy who installed it used the included backplate corsair provides for this cooler. I tried using quite a bit of force, but it won't come off, it seems that the sticky pads are too strong. I am worried that I will damage my old motherboard if I use any more force that I already use, which I'd like to avoid ideally, so I can recoup some of the new motherboard cost... If I cannot take the backplate off, how can I reinstall the cooler on the new motherboard? I was thinking of using the metal am3 backplate that comes with the motherboard, and just not remove the plastic pad from it, but I cannot find any information on the internet if that is safe, even for a little, while I can contact corsair to get another replacement backplate...

Hmm, curious. I've had an MSI GTX 760 that just burned up, I think some capacitors just went to flame... It's also the reason this chain of events happened :P. And now this problem... I think I won't consider MSI any time soon as well. A new rig is out of the question, at least until I finish with my university, it's just sad that spending money on an upgrade went that way. I'll figure something out. Maybe a used motherboard for now? Oh and yes, I did try the other PCI-E slot as well, same behaviour Thank you for your support

It depends on the air cooler and the motherboard i think. Also, perhaps your PSU...

So after contacting both the motherboard and graphics card manufacturer I have come to this. The graphic card manufacturer told me that their card is fine and I should consider the motherboard as the issue. The motherboard manufacturer after repeatedly asking if I plugged in everything correctly and telling me to make sure everything is powered, they told me that these cards were not tested on the motherboard, since it's an older architecture board. They told me that there may be a compatibility issue with that card. I guess I'm stuck now with new hardware I cannot use... That is quite weird, since I can use it perfectly fine on older PCs, which have an even older architecture, must be just my board then -.- So, does anyone have any other suggestion? Something I can try?

I already sent a request to my motherboard manufacturer, I'll do so with the gpu's as well. Thanks a lot!

Then I guess there is nothing more to do, is there? Really weird... I guess I'll have to reset the cmos each time I have to boot from now on

I don't really think you'll need to upgrade any time soon. Your computer should handle everything for quite some time. The only thing I think you could upgrade in the future is your RAM, if you exceed 16 gb of memory use, and then you'll have to see what is worth upgrading when your PC starts getting old... So I really think you're set right now.

After inserting the new PSU I managed to boot it after removing some RAM modules, which was the only way I could boot. I tried updating the BIOS and resetting the cmos, still no luck. At this point I have no idea what goes wrong...

So, I went ahead and bought the Corsair RM 650x. Still can't boot the GPU. Starts getting really frustrating...

I really have no idea

I actually booted and used the GPU in another system... Worked fine from what i saw. I ran some FurMark tests and played a game or two. That's the only reason I think it's okay to be honest...