Recent content by gozulin

Thank you for the suggestions! Unfortunately, neither of those have air vents in the front. They have air vents on the left and right side so I would have to position them sideways in the entertainment center for proper airflow.

My entertainment center has a 18 x 17 x 11 inches (45 x 43 x 28 cm) space I can use for a gaming PC. I currently have a fractal design microATX case which has served me well for 5 years (980Ti / 1070). I don't think it will be able to handle a 3090, however. Time to upgrade to a bigger...

And downgrading the Bios back to May did not resolve the black screen issue. FML! I realized that the Bios upgrade reset all my settings (WTF, ASUS???) so I went and messed around with some GPU power settings, and at least now I know for sure that my motherboard is the issue with the GPU...

My Bios was from May. I've updated to the latest and it seems to have resolved it. The interesting part is that my 950 pro doesn't show up in the main Bios screen and I can't set it as primary. Doesn't matter though, After it tries the other, it eventually boots from it anyways. EDIT: F$#% ...

It's always done this. No h/w changes.

Hello friends, I have the weirdest problem! I have an Asus Z170I Pro Gaming motherboard with an M.2 slot where I have placed a 512GB Samsung 950 pro as my primary OS drive. My secondary is a Samsung 850 pro SSD. Every single time I boot the system, it goes straight to BIOS. Every.Single.Time...

It could definitely be the PSU. The PSU is obviously on my short list of suspects. With that said, the PSU is working fine with the 280x and the GPU failures seem completely orthogonal to GPU load (gpu load = increased need for power i'm assuming) so there is no additional evidence that...

I will do that, although it's a huge PITA. I was actually thinking of doing a clean install of win7, but maybe it is too old at this point... Mentioned it in the post. Asus pro gaming z170l. Using skylake 6600k. Was not aware of OCCT. Thanks for the suggestion. I will try that. Nope. Those...

Already running win10. Nothing is overclocked.

***RESOLVED, LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST BEFORE ANSWERING*** So I bought an evga 980TI watercooled on Windows 10 64bit and I would routinely get a black screen with windows event viewer logging the dreaded "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.". Windows...

I ended up going with a 750w evga in the end. Just not to have to suspect power if something goes wrong.

Fingers crossed then. I'll let you know how it works out.

I have listened to your wisdom and this is what I ended up with: CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($267.99 @ ErwinComp) Motherboard: Asus Z170I PRO GAMING Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($151.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory...

i'm looking to build a living room gaming pc so I'd like the form factor to be smallish (maybe cube?) but still be able to fit in a 980ti (looking at evga hybrid 980ti) I don't need it to have a lot of drive bays. I'm planning on having 2 SSD drives in it only, and one will be m.2, so I can...

I knew the rest (I work in IT and I upgrade laptops frequently, just no PC building) but the last two paragraphs are useful info! So Overclocking has been neutered eh? I remember Intel wanting to charge a premium to people for the "privilege" of being allowed to overclock. It wasn't very...