Posts Tagged ‘motherboard’
Antec HCP-750 80 Plus Gold
Posted by Parkzone Corsair in Corsair on November 7th, 2011
Antec HCP-750 80 Plus Gold
Both times, Antec PSU's fried, and took out my motherboard with them. Shoot, if I had wanted that kind of performance, I would have kept the Powmax PSU in the case! Trust is earned, Antec……and you have not done so. Think I'll stick with Corsair, …
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Corsair Carbide 500R: A Corsair in Every Home
I just love mATX case with bottom mounted PSU, and I'm thinking about building another system. And also thanks Dustin for the review as always. RE: I wonder… by C300fans on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 RE: I wonder… by BernardP on Tuesday, October 25, …
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Palicomp Phoenix i5 Shinobi
Posted by Parkzone Corsair in Corsair on November 6th, 2011
Palicomp Phoenix i5 Shinobi
All four of the motherboard's memory slots are occupied by 2GB sticks of 1600MHz Corsair XMS RAM. You'll need to remove the processor cooler's fan to take out one of the RAM sticks, but this is fairly simple to do. The large processor cooler is needed, …
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Sounds to Me Like You Guys Are a Couple of Bookies
[Dealzon] • Corsair HS1A Gaming Headset is $ 39.99 after coupon and rebate, free ship from NewEgg. Next best is $ 60. [Dealzon] • Corsair Force Series 3 90GB SSD 2.5" CSSD-F90GB3-BK is $ 109.99 after rebate, free ship from NewEgg. Next best is $ 150. …
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Compact and ferocious: Pioneer Radium review
In the middle sits an AMD X6 1055T Hex Core CPU running at 2.8GHz and cooled by a Corsair H50 Hydro CPU cooler. A mighty Radeon 6900 GPU with 1GB of DDR5 RAM handles the graphics from multiple monitors to the latest games. All this plus 4GB of DDR3 RAM …
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20110521 – computer problems – motherboard & power supply f’ed (35s) – 036
Posted by Parkzone Corsair in Corsair on October 12th, 2011
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
NOT GOOD. THIS IS NOT WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN WHEN YOU PRESS THE POWER BUTTON.
Clint.
failing.
computer, motherboard failure, power supply, power supply failure.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn’s house, Alexandria, Virginia.
May 21, 2011.
… Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
… Read Carolyn’s blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: The death of Hades’s 2007 motherboard. (Abit IP35 Pro Socket with 2G of DDR2 800mHz memory.) At the time, I was unsure if it was the power supply (OCZ GameXStream OCZ600GXSSLI 600W power supply) or the motherboard. In the end, both had to be replaced. Not happy that OCZ’s product allowed itself to be killed by a faulty motherboard. My OCZ RAM melted too, so I am done with OCZ. Also had some minor harddrive corruption on my oldest harddrive (which was my C: system drive, which I will be reformatting soon and using only for backups).
Have since upgraded the power supply to a Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750W power supply, and the motherboard to an ASRock P43DE3 LGA775 motherboard with 8G of DDR3 1600mHz RAM (but I could only run it at 1200 or 1333mHz). Between that, and upgrading to Windows 7 (installed on my 2nd youngest drive), it is like a completely different, new, faster computer. Total upgrade cost was about 0. (I’m using the same CPU, an Intel Core2 Duo E6750 2.66gHz.)
Actually, the first replacement power supply was either killed by the motherboard, or I failed to test it correctly with the power supply tester. I RMA’ed it back to NewEgg, and apparently swapped the boxes (or so they claim), so my RMA was rejected, and I was billed a 2nd time. So this really cost about 0 now, thanks to NewEgg being such sticklers. When I finally get the 2nd one back, I’ll test it again. If it’s really broken, I’ll have to RMA it a second time to Corsair. The 5 year warranty should cover it, but I’ll still end up having bought 2 power supplies. Might be time to take up my friend who wanted me to build a computer for her…
