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--UPDATE/EDIT-- My multimeter came in. The two points do have continuity. I decided to try playing once again, after not having it plugged in for a few days. I even connected through DVI (Why did I not try this earlier? 0~o ) Minecraft now does not crash my PC. But GTA still does.. Although changing the resolution down to 720p helped it last ~5 minutes, then it crashed again. (Please note that before, I could run on low settings at 1080p at 90FPS (max)) I will be buying a new card.. maybe a 950. (I wanna spend less than 200, and one I found is a nice upgrade that's unde 150 bucks =) ) Hello! So I am asking this because my GPU has stopped working correctly, and I may have found the problem. The thing is, I'm not exactly sure if this is it. (NOTICE: my card is the small, 2GB version.. 02G-P4-3751-KR) I would like to know if someone could do a continuity test on these two parts for me (picture) The pin next to the orange trace, and the pad that's on the resistor. (I think that's what that is, according to what I found on Google) Oh by the way, this picture is from the back of the card, under the warranty sticker. (If you think this isn't the problem, you can read up my post on the troubleshooting forum linked bellow, and let me know what you think)

Ever since I built a new gaming computer, I have been encouraging my friend, who I play games with a lot, to build himself a new gaming PC. He doesn't know much about that kind of stuff though, so I am planning it out for him and am going to help him build it. His only requirements were that he wants to keep it under $750, he wants a nvidia card to stream to his shield and he wants it to be very small. This is what I planned out: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/penguin2424/saved/9vDtt6 I'm open to any suggestions except for the case because he seemed to really like that case Thanks

Hey guys, I'm planning on changing my laptop 5400rpm HDD to a SSD, and add a boot SSD in my desktop. That said, I have been looking for a good 850 EVO 250GB deal and while looking I stumbled upon a 750 Evo 250GB, but I didn't find many reviews of this SSD, all I can really tell is that there it seems to be a more "budget oriented version" of the 850 EVO. Given the price difference between both, Is there much of a difference for working with programming (in my laptop, while at the college) and with gaming (in my desktop) with one or the other?

Thanks for all the help! Going for the 950. A staff member could delete this is they want!

Hey Guys Here are my specs, I run A8-6500B Processor, 4GB, 500GB 7200RPM S-ATA HDD, no diskette drive, PCI/PCIe Small Form Factor (4x2), ATI HD 8570 2GB with 240W power supply. I want to add a gtx 750ti. Can my power supply handle it

Hey! My name is Simon and Today I would like to show my build for you just to give you an idea of how to create a Mid-plate in a Corsair Obsidian 750D. I am 17 years old and have no to little experience in this area, everything I did was completely improvised, except the measuring ofc . Also take in mind that this works for the 750D case and that case only! No other Obsidian case will have the same measurements! The specs on the computer used are GTX 970 G1 Gaming. 4790K @4.8. And the motherboard msi Z97-S02. Having this motherboard allows for the sheet to slide in between a PCI-E slot and all the interface from the motherboard to the Chassi buttons, which makes it look alot cleaner. This might work with other motherboards aswell, but no guarantee. Also keep in mind that this mod allows you too keep the HDD cages inside of the chassi, the only problem is that you cannot have the small handles for the HDD holders, which basically makes them useless, but hey, no need to take them out since they can just aswell be there! To kick it off I will tell you what you need, material wise, skill is not really required. Knowing how to handle big machinery or having someone doing it for you like my dad did is *GOLD*. Note how i clearly meant what i said! GOLD! Optional stuff marked with a "*" at the beginning. One sheet made out of any metal will do. Atleast 325x470x(1-3 should not really matter) millimeters. Metal sheet bender and cutter. A drilling machine with a rather large bit of 25 mm+. This is for the hole where the PCI-E power cables will come up from. *Plexi glass. Almost the same dimensions, 325x470x5. Except a bit thicker. This is to prevent it from cracking since I found bending a thin 2 mm piece was completely impossible. *Spray paint. I used Black and White. Feel free to use whatever. Also remember to use proper paint designed for masking unlike mine, which made it crack and look real nasty, I will have to redo the paintjob completely. At a distance of 1 meter it looks good though! *Sleeved cables. (Mines are ordered and will be here in 1-2 days from the topic creation. Updates will be here then) *Angle grinder or sand paper with a hell of a lot of muscle! This is used to narrow down the edge of the 5 mm plexi to be thin enough to slide below a PCI port on the Motherboard. *Masking tape. If you go for paint, this is a nobrainer! *An LED string to make it look cooler, I went for an RGB one with remote controlling, worth every Swedish crown! *Sandpaper to sand the Plexi in order for the spray paint to grip properly. *Just a writer and some cool icons that you wanna have on your midplate printed out for masking! 750D Obsidian Case ONLY. The measurements will not be proper to any other Obsidian case! Sections This is divided into four, possibly five sections, section 1 being how to shape the metal sheet. Section 2 how to shape the plexiglass and how to handle the surface. Section 3 will be about painting. And finally section 4 will be about inserting the newly ordered sleeved cables and installing the LED string+tips on where to place the IR-Reciever if you bought an RGB one with controller. I might add a section 5 in the future where I build a white cover for the three rubber openings in the 750D (The 24-pin Motherboard power comes out from one of them) to cover the hidious rubber rings and also adding some extra white to the fully black chassi. Once again, this can be done with any color, but personally I prefer Black & White builds over anything else! Section 1 This is the section where I show how to form the metal sheet. So, to get started, I did a prototype with a metal sheet to drill holes etc and to see where things did work out and where they did not. You might decide to stick with the metal which is also a very nice option, then you can just basically skip the ending 70% of this tutorial since it is about painting mostly. The sheet was first cut to 325x470 and then marked at 170 mm in width. It was done with this machine. The machine used for bending it looks like this After a completed bend at the specified point the sheet will look something like this. Test fitting it inside the computer to see if the measurements were correct. Notice how it goes smoothly in between the PCI slot and the bottom connectors. If you use a sheet as your midplate make sure to isolate the ends with more than just paint to prevent it from shorting out and frying your motherboard! Final thing that needs to be done is to drill a hole in the plate on the upper side. This is for the PCI-E cables to come out from and smoothly into the graphics card. This is optional but looks really good. The measurements are a bit different from my graphics card since they all vary in length. This card is really big (Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970) And needed the hole to be drilled at 220 mm from the left side of the sheet, and 50 from the bend, the hole is drilled on the top side. For clarification it would be the side facing up on the picture above you. Be sure to not just steal these measurements but to actually check for yourself if your GPU is in the length of these measurements. I kinda eyeballed it and marked my spot so finding yours should not be to difficult. Keep in mind that when you are doing this step with plexi glass you will have to first drill a small hole of about 6-10 mm before stepping up to 28-32. I learn this the hard way as my first piece broke in half. I also have to add that you need to be extremely careful and lower the drill very slowly, last thing you want is forcing it through the plastic and cleaving it! SECTION 2 Here starts the section where I will handle the Plexiglass. It starts by cutting a piece of plexi in the same size as the metal sheet. Here is where it becomes tricky however, a 5 mm sheet is a pretty tough task to bend, but it is doable. I tried bending it in the same maching as I bent the metal sheet in but it instantly springed back. I layed more pressure and the BAM, it snapped. You can see the crack to the left. The right piece is the new one. I tried a new approach, where I still used the same machine, but heated the edge on the inside and outside of the plexy for 30 seconds each with a heat gun on maximum heat, then bending about 30 degrees in the metal sheet bender. After doing this 3-4 times the bend was complete with a fine 90 degree angle. Before we move on to section 3 we need to do one more thing. We need to sand the both outer ends of the plexi. Without doing this the spray pain will not stick to the surface, but will instead clump up like drops on the surface, if the paint is not designed for plexi spraying that is... After sanding it might look like this. I have no clue how to sand properly btw, I just went full SMOrc on it and it seemed to do the trick. Also, worth to note is that with a plexi plate over 2 mm you will not be able to fit it properly between the PCI-E connection and the bottom connectors on the motherboard which will make it look kinda bad, therefore you need to get an angle grinder. I used a cutting "blade" looking like this. You can probably use most of the sanding ones. Just be careful so that you don't go too rough on the grinder's "blade" and because of that break plexi glass at 3 mm or so. It will ruin your day. I recommend going for quite a while. Surprisingly it takes quite a while to sand plexy and after about 5 minutes of grinding it looked like this. It was not enought and I had to grind another 10 to make the angle even sharper. If you are uncertain of when it's gonna fit snuggly, test it out every once in a while, if it's too fat, go back to grinding! Only one step left before we move on to section 3, and that is the hole for the PCI-E power cables exactly as the one we did back in section 1. If you need measurements or tips on how to do it, just scroll back up to the last part of section 1 and you'll find it! Keep in mind that when you are doing this step with plexi glass you will have to first drill a small hole of about 6-10 mm before stepping up to 28-32. I learn this the hard way as my first piece broke in half. I also have to add that you need to be extremely careful and lower the drill very slowly, last thing you want is forcing it through the plastic and cleaving it! Okay! The first two sections finished! Only two, possibly three in some week if people show interest and think that this was not too much of an amateur's work. For those who missed it up top section 5 would be a plate covering the three rubber holes leading into the cable management section. If you paint it the color you want I think it can really prove to add some nice aesthetics to the build. Anyways, section three and four gonna be coming up today or tomorrow depending if I feel like writing the entire thing today. Also feel free to ask anything about the build! I will try to answer it as professionally and fast as I can! Cheers!

I'm looking for a 750W power supply for my next build that I'm trying to get it as quiet as possible. Does anybody have any recommendations as to a good PSU with a silent idle mode? Preferably 80+ Gold or better. Thank you in advance for all help.

So I was planning on upgrading my PCs GPU to a 980 or 970 a few months back, but now that the new 1080 and 1070 are around the corner, I was thinking about using one of those. But the one thing I'm concerned about is my PC itself. I have an ASUS RoG G20AJ model that has only had a ram upgrade. I was wondering if anyone could inform me if I should stick to getting a GTX 980, or try to go ahead and shoot for a 1070. Here's my specs as of right now: CPU Intel Core i5 4460 @ 3.20GHz Haswell 22nm Technology RAM 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28) Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. G20AJ (SOCKET 1150) Graphics HW191A (1440x900@60Hz) 22MP56 (1920x1080@60Hz) 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 (ASUStek Computer Inc)

So I have decided to upgrade to a gtx 750 Ti. I have heard that the 4Gb version doesn't actually have 4Gb of ram, but rather 2Gb, and can borrow up to an additional 2Gb of system ram. Does anybody know if this is true?

Hello! I'm about to buy my custom built PC and I've already chosen every part for it...... except the boot up drive. I want to know which SSD would give me the fastest BOOT UP TIMES. I'm between the intel 750 series (PCIe or 2.5 inch ones) I know that the the intel 750 series are the fastest for read and write but that doesn't matter for boot ups. Remember, the SSD will be used for only some programs and OS so I need about 256 gb (you all know that).

As the title says, my EVGA PSU has this squeak and it's driving me insane. It's coming from the fan. I stopped all the other fans and finally got the PSU fan. PSU fan stopped, annoyance stopped. So.... What can I do about this? Is it possible to... lube it up somehow? Replace the fan?

So I'm looking to upgrade my GPU from an AMD R7 240 2gb. I want to get and ASUS GTX 750ti 4GB. I want to know if I am going to get a bottleneck elsewhere in my system. I have an AMD A10-7800 and 8GB DDR3. Thanks!

I've began to overclock my graphics card which is a MSI GTX 750 2GB The base clock is around 1050 and the boost clock is about 1135. I used Heaven as my benchmark test and Precision for OC. Heaven settings were set to API: DirectX11 | Quality: Ultra | Tessellation: Extreme | Stereo 3D: Disabled | Multi-monitor: Disabled | Anti-aliasing: x4 | Resolution: 1366x768 (all my current monitor supports ) Here is my baseline FPS: 33.5 | Min FPS: 7.3 | Max FPS: 85.2 | I reached a max temperature of about 62C. When overclocking, I messed with it for about an hour and a half, had a few crashes, blue screens, etc. and I finally found my max was +170Mhz for both memory and GPU clock. Any more would cause artifacts and Blue screens. Here is my OC results FPS: 38.7 | Min FPS: 15 | Max FPS: 95.3 | I reached a max temp of 66C I want to know three things 1. Is this overclock safe? 2. Are these results typical of an overclock on this level? 3. What happens if I mess with voltage? I'm too scared to mess with it right now .-. Thanks everybody!

I don't know if this is a good deal or not but Newegg has the Intel 750 Series 400GB PCI-E SSD for $150 USD. You have to be signed and use the promo code NEBF75 at checkout. Neweeg Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167359&cm_re=Intel_750_Series_AIC_400GB_PCI-Express-_-20-167-359-_-Product Promo Code: NEBF75 DEAL CHANGED, DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPEDNED! SORRY EVERYONE. I GUESS I GOT LUCKY WITH THE $150

I'm talking about this one right here ; Are they worth it over normal SSD's? i'm considering one of these in my upcoming build.

Hey guys so i was planing to upgrade my Gpu card from R7 250 1GB OC to GTX 750 Ti i was wondering if it would bottleneck my Amd A6 7400k Because i dont have a lot of money to spend and im afraid if it would bottleneck it so it would mean alot if u guys would help me Thnx !

So I recently bought the EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 to replace my old Corsair AX750 which had terrible coil whine (probably gonna sell it or something idk). I am really happy with it, it makes no coil whine what so ever, the build quality and components are great, the cooling is passive most of the time (pretty much all the time when I'm not gaming) and it has a 10 year warranty! Now, one thing I noticed is the fan noise when the fan does spin up. It's actually quite a bit louder than on the AX750 which was pretty much inaudible all the time (not sure if it's because the fan was so quiet or if I never got it to spin at all). It's not really annoying, and when I'm gaming the fans on the graphics card are definitely louder. The only time I really notice it is after exiting the game when the graphics card cools down quite fast and goes into passive mode and the only audible fan left is the one on the PSU (which eventually stops as well). I'm asking cause I just wanted to make sure the fan on my unit is not defective or anything. Does anyone have this PSU also find the fan kinda on the loud side? Not like annoyingly loud, just loud enough to be easily audible? Maybe someone also had a Corsair PSU and can compare? Maybe it's not even a problem for most of you. I'm probably just a bit too sensitive when it comes sounds coming from the computer, which I've configured to run near-silent in idle and under light loads (semi-passively cooled GPU, very quiet CPU air cooler, most case fans off or spinning very slowly, etc).

So I want to know which is better between the 850 evo and 750 evo ? (Both 250 GB) Since the spec sheet is the same for both I don't know what is the main difference in practical use. Where I live they are about same price so that's not the issue here. It's simple as that. Just make sure to back your statement with some info if you can.

I have seen a few videos floating around on youtube about people with 750s (1gb version like me) playing gta 5 at high 60fps with an i3 and 4gb of ram. My factory overclocked evga ftw non-reference pcb 750 just about gets 60fps at lowest settings. I've had this card over a year and I've never seen it's temps above 60. What could be the reason why it performs worse?

After scrolling down pcpartpicker to select the corsair cx600m i noticed this, semi-modular 750w power supply unit, and i was just wondering if anyone new if it was any good? It would fit better with my either black and blue or black and red colour (if you want leave a comment saying which you think )scheme either way, it would look better, and as its only £5 more it seems worth it for black cables and 150 watts more.If anyone has had any experience with this particular model please help me out and leave a comment.

Is the Supernova 750 G2 psu enough to run my rig and be able to overclock??? ​Here is the link to show you what I have. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/PRMVMp

I've heard good things about the GTX 750 Ti and planning to replace it for my aging GT 640. How much clock speed (incl. boost) do you guys can gain and what's the fps difference from stock? Also, what manufacturer and version (oc/sc/ftw) do you guys have?

I am going all out with a new gaming computer and i am wondering if it would be better to get 2 GTX 750's or one GTX 980? Or should i get a totally different card?

So I was thinking about getting the Intel 750 Series 400GB SSD to put my OS and some games on but I was just wondering if I could even put it on my motherboard because I had never heard of the PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 socket before. I have the Asus Maximus Hero VII Hero Motherboard. Any help would be appreciated.

So my brother is gonna become a PC Gamer!!! YAY I Have successfully converted one He is looking to spend 700 - 750 usd on his new PC Any recommendations PCPartPicker Required He has a monitor, keyboard and is gunna use Windows 8.1 pro for students He is looking for a clean black case