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The place to post if you have invite codes. I unfortunately do not have any, but will be more than happy if anyone with one wants to PM a code over :D Then I can start sharing the love too.

I tried the PSU and the 690 in a different system and achieved boot. I went back and looked at the motherboard, it's likely the cause. Ive RMA'ed it after I tried a different psu and card in this board again and it failed to boot. Now we play the waiting game.

Tried an 8600 in the system, it boots Tried the 690 in another system, it boots Tried using the power adapter cables that came with the card just to see, no change. System still instant off's the moment it is powered up.

New card arrived. Still have a problem. Pin test the PSU. Working. Plug in everything leaving out power to video card. Working. Plug in power to card. PSU instant off. I have not removed the stock cooler from the new card yet. I'm ready to punch a baby at this point. It's been over 2 and a...

So I just bought the signature series and I bought the water block and a backplate for the card. Everything fit on fine but the second I powered up the system it would instant off. After troubleshooting I found it was having this card in the system that was doing it. I swapped the card with a...

So it turns out having the GTX690 in there is causing the PSU to instant off I popped an 8600gts I had laying around in and it came up fine. I'm guessing maybe the card is shot? I haven't tried that in a different machine yet but why bother if it won't work in this one.

I was able to drain the system and pull the motherboard out. I hooked up the motherboard ram and a video card and it fired right up and did some BIOS recovery. I'm guessing it's the assassin 2 mobo shorting out somewhere inside the phantom case. Might try and get a piece of craft foam and put it...

Thanks I'll take a look at whats going on with the wiring maybe there's a short.

Sorry completely spaced. I7 3960x extreme edition CPU gtx690 signature Series GPU 32gb quad channel mem gigabyte assasin2 mobo 2x 3tb HDD 1 Samsung 256gb ssd 1 Swiftech mcp655 pump 1 swiftech apogee drive II cpublock/pump 2 NZXT 200mm fans 2 NZXT 140mm fans as for paperclip test, what pins do...

has anyone ever had booting issues with this other than the common DOA? I just tried running this on a new build and it will turn on then immediately off. I'm going to guess it's because 1000w is not enough power.

Having 2 heat exchangers in a loop may work.

Wow that's pretty damn sick.

So I was looking around a bit more online. Anyone have any info on the Swiftech Apogee Drive II Pump & CPU Waterblock Combo? I am debating adding this in as a second pump and replacing the waterblock I have chosen above. In all honesty I'd really love some input on parts selection for WC. EDIT...

The case arrived today but looking inside the measurements won't fit a 200mm rad. Not even ultra thin would fit in there. so I'll have to go with a 140 and instead of strapping fans directly on it just have 2 200mm blowing straight down ontop of it.

That looks like a dual 120mm rad. I guess I'll have to do some measurements and get diameters for everything going in. I know they make ultra thin rads I just don't know how good/bad they are. I was looking at the Phobya Xtreme 400mm Radiator for the top but I guess now I will second guess...

I've been using everything but WC for all my old builds. Well Technically. I had that ULTRA TEC cooler once it burned out, and I'm currently using a corsair h70 with my current i7 920. I finally had the budget and bought new parts currently in transit. I'm going to be buying the water cooling...

So I have been thinking long and hard. I would love to try and combine several cooling solutions to try and create a working sub ambient cooling system. The freezer method with the radiator in the freezer. Why this does not work: Freezers are not meant to keep constant sources cold. The...

So I went to the store got a dr pepper picked up one code. Went back the next day and they didn't have any EA marked dr pepper left, just normal ones? If anyone has any codes to PM me I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm still on the look out for the soda I don't drink. If I come across any I'll buy...

Well nevermind. Apparently all this time my old drivers had Crossfire enabled and let both monitors work while having each monitor plugged into a different card. I simply plugged both monitors into the top card and viola! In case anyone runs into this with the new driver updates. EDIT: So I...

So I recently updated my ATI 5770's drivers to the newest Catalyst ones out. I'm running w7 x64. My problem is that it won't let me enable crossfire. I check the box and hit apply and it un-checks. So I restart. Great now crossfire is enabled, but my second monitor isn't detected anymore from...

New board arrived, Same board just rev 1.1. Popped it in and it worked off the back. I'm going to assume a capacitor blew or a chip fried somewhere on the old one.

Thanks for the suggestions, ran through these all before starting the thread Can't even get into the BIOS before reboot Tried one stick of ram at a time, they work in other machine, memtest doesn't detect anything with them I'm going to assume somehow the mobo has met its match.

So my mom's comp I built her is run into an issue. First of spec wise Core 2 Quad (I believe 9550) 4GB DDR2 1066 Gskill (2x 2GB) BFG Geforce FX 8600 Gigabyte Motherboard (Cant remember name off top of my head) 500w Rosewill psu Everything has been running fine for over a year or so...

So upon further investigation it seems that Apevia sucks the big one. However this particular unit and any of their other new Warlock series seem to have come quite a long way in terms of performance. I'm still playing around with overclock settings and such but this entire build seems really...

TEC is installed and pix are to come, I was able to wire manage A LOT better this time. I also had to make a Molex connector splitter for some stuff in there cause this anti christ power supply everyone speaks of didn't have enough molex connectors on there.

Well I'll give it a chance for now, So far its better then my old Antec True Blue and True Powers I had years back that both blew in a day on a P4 machine. This rebuild is now waiting on the TEC cooler.

wow it seems everyone on Xoxoid and Newegg and Tigerdirect are misslead. Either way We just got 1000 watt BFG PSUs in at work so worst comes to worse I'll just buy one of those. Maybe I'll mod it into the Plexiglass windowed Case of this one.

Honestly this one was one of the better ones I seen looking around. LoL what is everyone burning Apevia for? What PSU's SHOULD I have gone with?

I just got these and the board actually comes with its own software to help overclock the CPU from your desktop. Just change the BCLK in either the Bios or in EasyTune 6 to about 160Mhz and don't profile your memory. Also you have options in Bios or ET6 to change from Cruise, Sports, Racing...

So I did some looking and i decided instead of water cooling (I barely have room now) I dropped the money on the ULTRA ChillTec Cooler.

I'll take my chances with it, every antec I've ever owned has died miserably.

Hardware Before shot Messy Super messy Spin Q (this thing sux the more I think about it) After Anyone have any suggestions for some water cooling on that core i7 or should I just switch to the stock intel cooler.

ok so this Thermaltake cooler is in and it sucks. I have removed the side panel of Lexa just to boot up. Core i7 is all stock settings (not overclocked) and its idling at about 53 C. The fan is rheostat controlled instead of 4 pin CPU motherboard connector. I have the thing maxed out at about...

Ok so to be nice I decided to give her my old XFI titanium PCIE sound card my PCI eSata card and my PCI USB card as well as giving her the Gigabyte GH-PSU23-PB 120mm LED CPU cooler I bought a thermaltake Spin Q CPU cooler. I had to mod an old thermaltake bay drive variable control into the front...

So my GF decided she wanted me to build her a PC. Not to be outdone, I ordered new parts and am selling her my old ones. I'm selling her: Gigabyte GA-P31-ES3G mobo Intel Q6600 CPU NZXT 500 Watt PSU (came stock with Lexa) 2x 4GB DDR2 1066 Gskill Memory Gigabyte GH-PDU21-MF 110mm LED CPU...

So my uncle has the ACE and tried updating to windows mobile 6.1 when sir (their chihuahua) pulled out the USB cable. So now we got a samsung ace that charges and powers on to the screen that says Samsung and gives the web URL but wont go past that. If we charge it we get the charge screen. If...

Anyone, I know a few of you in the Montville CT area talking, if you want to go hit me up sometime. I'm in the Montville area, can drive.

Looking to pay under $150 + shipping Don't need a 2nd gen but will take what I can get. I just had a 1st gen i bought off someone for $150 stolen from me at a party I went to. I need to come up with another one because I have a lot of non profit events coming up I provide the music to and...

LoL soon as you build it you better keep in mind sims 3 for her jctazzy Otherwise she will tell you to use hers cause her sims lag

Is there any crack software updates that could possibly make the G1 a multi-touch screen or is it strictly a hardware related issue. I'm still stuck with a sidekick LX and I desperately need to switch. Unfortunately I have a year to wait before I'm up for an upgrade, and ebay is the worst...