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    Fitting older gen PSUs on a Server Board

    Hello, I'm interested in building a fileserver on the cheap. As it stands currently the cheapest parts one can find on the net belong to socket 1366 Xeons. So I was looking to an HP Proliant DL360 G6 Board (this one...
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    Feeding a GTX 970 properly

    My card most often than not stays below the 200w mark, but it has some spikes to ~210 watts, it does not happen too often, but if the wiring is of low quality as you say would it lead to lower performance at those moment, or -worse- to a lockup as the card won't be fed with enough current for...
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    Feeding a GTX 970 properly

    I already have this: http://cdn.overclock.net/1/17/900x900px-LL-17c73841_gtx_970_pcb_34642.jpeg Sadly it can only take 2x6 pins, when I bought it that gigabyte was not anounced, then again I think my cards cooling is a little better. I have unlocked the card's power limit and it routinely...
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    Feeding a GTX 970 properly

    But if I connect my Asus Strix which only needs one single 8-pin adapter on my PSU it has no problem. Clearly the power supply is far from being the issue. I even had my Strix unlocked and overlocked way over, the PSU clearly is made to last such amperage. My problem is clearly with the molex...
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    Feeding a GTX 970 properly

    Hi, I'm building an ITX machine which is quite small. In it I can only fit a GTX 970 card (that's the best I can get). Problem is that the PSU only has one PCI-E 8-pin cable. Now I could use that, and one two-molex -> 1x6-pin adapter to feed my GTX 970, but that would give me only 210w at best...
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    List all the GPUs you've ever owned

    1998 - 3dfx Banshee, 16MB (great 2d, veeery bad 3d acceleration in complex scenes) 2000 - Geforce 2 - MX 200, 64MB (my first truly 3D card, still bad though) 2002 - Geforce 4 - MX440, 128MB DDR (noow we're getting somewhere, still relatively slow) 2003 - Geforce FX 5700, 256MB (first performance...
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    Booting from SD into SSD

    Well that would be interesting. Having Windows boot from a live linux distro, but all "in one move" (i.e. I don't want the boot sequence to get significantly longer). Any links which would let me experiment with grub-windows interaction (similar to the one you described)?
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    Booting from SD into SSD

    Hello, A couple of years ago I bought a couple of Z68 ITX motherboards which (as it turned out) they're some of the lowest quality motherboards I've ever owned. With hardly any experimentation from my part one failed (now I'm on its replacement) and the other one cannot cold boot (it is...
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    Dual GTX780ti on X58

    Heh, basically that's my greatest fear, if your 780s lose a couple of frames, imagine how many more my TIs will. Oh well, let's hope not, 'cause I've already put the order. BTW do you think you lose framerate due to CPU's bottlenecks or due to the PCI-E being v2.0 instead of 3.0 . I'm asking...
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    Dual GTX780ti on X58

    Hey, great to see a fellow X58 owner. Do your 780s run well or do you feel them choke a little bit (I guess it would help if you are/were playing on relatively high resolutions). I mean if you compare your framerate to that of popular reviews is it close by or do you get something significantly...
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    Dual GTX780ti on X58

    Heh given that I want to achieve at least 80fps @ 1440p in most/all games I would need a second 780. Playing a game at 1440p at 120fps is almost the same as playing a game at 4k at 60 fps so I probably need the same firepower as you... If you say your stock 4930k was/is enough then I suppose...
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    Dual GTX780ti on X58

    My 5 year old PSU actually has dealt with worse than that for a time. (GTX 285 tri sli for the heck of it :p, but only for a short while). It's a Corsair TX 950 with one really fat +12v rail (78A, but in practice close to 80+ :p ). As I said my machine was no slouch for its time, it had almost...
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    Dual GTX780ti on X58

    Hello, Sometime back I received as a gift one of those Korean overclockable panels which can achieve 120Hz at 1440p ( in particular here's my model ). Anyway, to make a long story short I eventually decided to try my luck and sure enough I was able to push the monitor *reliably* at 119 Hz...
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    PCI-E 3.0 card on PCI-E 1.0a port

    OK, after multiple attempts what did solve the issue was doing as follows. First I installed a PCI-E 1.0 card and it worked. Then a PCI-E 2.0 card and it posted as well And FINALLY I've put my GTX 750 and now it works splendidly. I know it sounds kind of silly, but trying anything else didn't...
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    PCI-E 3.0 card on PCI-E 1.0a port

    I honestly tried everything I could think, that's why I came here hoping some other member also had a relevant issue and hopefully he'd tell us how he troubleshooted it... The list of things that I did are as follows: Checked the port is OK by putting a PCI-E 1.0 card on it. It worked fine...
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