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I use win8 + start8 on my laptop. It is ok most of the time, but i still find bugs that windows 7 didn't have and there are some annoyances.

Test the MSI card on its own to see if you get any more artifacting. GPU-Z has a log to file option that you can use to check the clocks after playing and there is a log viewer floating around it you goole for it. If you have no issues, then it's problem solved.

Artifacts usually point to a VRAM issue.

It's good of you to chime in. I hope it gets sorted for the OP. I don't think the OP is venting, the community is. It shouldn't have gotten to this stage and Asus needs to have a good hard look at either it's policies or the employees that follow them if it wants to restore any kind of...

I just helped someone put a build together. From a $1200 PC, not a single part was Asus.

You might want to look at using Trixx to make a custom fan profile. 84 seems kinda hot for a pitcairn chip. My Tahiti LE only reaches 71 in Heaven overclocked and overvolted and it's known to be a particularly hot card with a single fan cooler..

It good of Raja to give his input here and not really his fault the RMA process seems to be pretty flawed. I'm sure he's passed this thread to his PR and RMA department and hopefully we can see a change in policy at some point. Asus are a BIG company and sell more than just video cards, you...

I'm pretty sure any power surge would have effected the PSU first and even if there was a surge on the 12 V line, there would have been more things affected and really shouldn't have caused a fire. ESD could not really cause that kind of damage either. It looks like a connection somewhere has...

There are plenty of websites around that will review products properly. HWS is one of the best that I have found for PSUs. If you look on the newegg product page, you will also find tons of bad reviews (about 50%) for that specific PSU. The capacitors just do not seem to last more than a couple...

Both the Antec and Corsair units you linked are very solid. As the 560ti is a very power hungry card, some models using an average of 200 W, I would go with the slightly higher rated 750 or 850 W unit by Corsair though.

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A YouTube video of the assembly. Definitely something for the enthusiast! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1irVrAl3Ts

The Coolermax ZU series are terrible PSUs they have an extremely high failure rate with capacitors randomly popping after a few months. For the same price, you can get a corsair builder series which are much much better. Edit - Here is an example of a (non-ZU) coolmax PSU...

With bad luck it can. The psus should have a manufacturers warranty so you can send them back. Which capacitor is popping btw? one inside the PSU, right? What brand PSUs were they? Edit - If they are using a 115 V AC supply and the PSU uses active PFC, then a voltage spike should not make the...

But there is no way to prove that the capacitor was blown by a spike and not a manufacturing defect.

There's no way to prove that a single capacitor being popped is from a surge or manufacturing defect. The real evidence of a surge might be more damaged components and a popped fuse. I don't think a voltage spike should kill a PSU unless the spike is over a prolonged period of time. If you...

I was a member of [H] from 1997, 15-16 years ago, ago when the site first started up (and people here were building water-cooled systems using car-radiators & GM was still around) until getting my e-mail hacked a few years ago. I read reviews from everywhere on the web and know the...

1. It wasn't in response to the op's issue 2. He would. see above. 3. I can't say that I would trust the review until I knew what methods were being used to test it. For all you know, it is a KAW plugged into the wall that greatly underestimates the power usage. There is no scientific process in...

Yes, i didn't think it was worth mentioning the 3.3V line as, afaik, it isn't connected to anything in platter type HDDs and so connecting 12 V to the 3.3v is unlikely to blow anything (i guess).

He would/should have said that if the cables from the corsair unit fit, then it would work. I hope he didn't tell you this before you tried it. If he did, did you make it clear that you were trying non-corsair cables? I've heard bad things about Corsair support before, they really do need to...

Not sure if this is what you are looking for as it is relating to problems in the manufacturing proccess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague I'm not sure what you are looking for exactly. The process of capacitors being burned up or popping due to over-voltage is fairly simple. The...

"I was then ready to connect power to the SATA power connector and here is when I got confused. I am tryiung to connect to my SATA power on my motherboard (P67A-GD65) but that is a 6+2 connector and the Corsair port that islabelled for SATA is a 4+4, the only 6+2 ports on the corsair psu are...

Happy coincidence, It was the first review that I came across. I would always chose the worst-case scenario over the best, when considering the correct PSU to buy, any day. The point is that the 670 is closer to 200 W than 150 W and is more/just as power hungry than a 670 as is the 4770K. and...

Happy coincidence, It was the first review that I came across. I would always chose the worst-case scenario over the best any day. The point is that the 670 is closer to 200 W than 150 W and is more/just as power hungry than a 670.

Reviews are out for the 760. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_760_Direct_Cu_II_OC/25.html Maximum power consumption of 210 W a fair bit higher than the 670.

It looks good. You really should overclock your video card a little. You can get some nice gains from a small overclock and your PSU should handle it well enough. btw. Specs are confirmed for the 760: GPU - GK104-225 CUDA Cores - 1152 TMUs - 96 ROPs - 32 Memory - 2 GB (4 GB...

I remember having a Celeron 300 Mhz chip and getting an overclock to 450 Mhz. After that I got an AMD Durian and got a pretty hefty overclock.

I've heard bad things about EVGA's warranty system. But, that was mainly related to graphics cards. Thanks for the update and I hope it all works out.

The 7870 Tahiti runs BF3 pretty nicely when overclocked. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Club_3D/HD_7870_jokerCard_Tahiti_LE/31.html I imagine that BF4 will support multi-core CPUs better than most of todays games too so I would definitely go for the second option if you are only looking at...

If you can do it for $50, and plan to overclock it, then why not? It's a step up from a 660, just not a big one and I wouldn't want to spend more than $50

42A for a 770 is overkill and works out to about 500 W. The psu will have safety features and so even if your PSU couldn't draw the amount of current required, it would just shut down. You should be safe.

The last link there had the OP updated this month. Edit - Damn thing doesn't work: the forum fubared the link :( http://www.ng ohq.com/graphic-cards/17706-hybrid-physx-mod-v1-03-v1-05ff.html I dunno, I haven't spent a huge amount of time looking into it, so I am sure you know more about it. I...

Sell the 7970, buy a 670 if you really want physx

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/HD_7950_Vapor-X/28.html relatively they are very close.

You are talking about a benchmark in one game. There isn't much between them but 7950 = 660 Ti average performance wise.

660 -> 7950 is pointless. You will see some improvement when you overclock the 7950, but maybe 20% max. 770 Reviews are starting to come out: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_770/27.html 770 is about $400 and the 7970 is about $350 after MIR, I'd go for either of those 2...

Those steps are so badly written. Where are they from? I found the new steps: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135891 also here: http://physxinfo.com/wiki/Hybrid_PhysX http://www..com/graphic-cards/17706-hybrid-physx-mod-v1-03-v1-05ff.html < - - - Latest They seem quite...

It's pretty simple to set up PhysX with an ATI + Nvidia card: - http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119217&highlight=physX

The specs give you 400 W at 12 V which is pretty good. I have seen units that give a full 450 W on the 12 V rail for a 450 W PSU, but they are usually Platinum models. As you are taking the system apart when you upgrade, you might want to give the inside a quick blow with compressed air to...

Due to the way that ratings work, most PSUs will be able to draw more power than rated. It does not mean you would want to run them higher than what they are rated for. Even so, I clearly said that the unit can provide 360 W on the 12 V rail. A whole 12 W extra isn't going to make much...