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Shane Gowan

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SO i have all my components in and wired properly (i think) and i plug in the power switch on and i see lights come on the mobo and the GPUs but none of the fans kick on and the on off button on the tower is working no lights on the tower or anything. Heres a list of my components

CM Storm trooper tower (black)
Maximus VI Hero mobo
Intel G3258
Kingston HyperX ram 2x4gb 1600
CM 800w Silent pro Gold
120gb Kingston SSD
1TB Seagate HDD
2x Asus R9 270s crossfired

Any suggestions to what i could be missing?
 
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For the lights you are probably having some wires not plugged in right or good is all.

For the fans not spinning, it sounds like your CPU is likely either in wrong or its dead. You should know that an Intel G3258 regardless of how far you overclocked it would bottleneck two R9 270s in crossfire. Not to mention the improvement from multi-gpus is only in certain games and most of the time very unhelpful, so you would of been a lot better off buying just one GPU and a better CPU.
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For the lights you are probably having some wires not plugged in right or good is all.

For the fans not spinning, it sounds like your CPU is likely either in wrong or its dead. You should know that an Intel G3258 regardless of how far you overclocked it would bottleneck two R9 270s in crossfire. Not to mention the improvement from multi-gpus is only in certain games and most of the time very unhelpful, so you would of been a lot better off buying just one GPU and a better CPU.
 
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If the motherboard is a z97 or h97 motherboard, no it isn't possible.

If it is an z87 series motherboard or similar it is. You didn't post which chipset it is so you will need to check and find out. If it is an z87 for example, I believe that is an Asus motherboard so you would be in luck. You can download a bios update, put it on a flash drive, put it in the motherboard in a specific USB port and bush a button and it will update the BIOS for you. At least it should, most Asus motherboards that are any good have this function.
 
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Shane Gowan

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Mobo is a z87 but i think i need a z87 processor to do the bios update :/

I understand the botteneck the CPU was just for just temporary to get the system up and going. The 2 r7's i got mainly because i got a really good price on them for $100 each slighty used but tested and working great. So i couldnt refuse a deal like that.
 
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Two R9 270s for $200, god thats an amazing deal.

Anyways no, if the motherboard is Asus you don't usually.
http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/MAXIMUS_VI_HERO/

Look at "USB Bios Flashback".
You get a USB flash drive, with the bios on it. You plug it in, push a button. Then wait 10 minutes to be sure, though usually it takes just a minute or two. This can flash and upgrade the BIOS without RAM, CPU, HDD, all it needs is the motherboard, flash drive, and power. Thats it.
 
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Yea at that price I don't blame you. I don't have any plans to upgrade my GPU for years but I would have even jumped on it at that.

Whenever you go to upgrade btw, if you plan to overclock you are probably best to get an i5, but if not there is the Xeon CPUs, for about $250 you can get a quad-core with hyper threading. In other words its an i7, without the GPU inside, at the price of an i5. It cannot overclock without pushing the FSB up, but I personally just don't like to go without hyper-threading. It helps in a lot of situations
 
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Well im merely building the computer for experience. ive never built one before and want to learn how. All i really do on a computer is Play world of warcraft, browse the internet, download music and movies and i might maybe use it to program my home automation systems I work in the A/V field and the programs required to do programing dont take much to run i run them on an old laptop with no issues.
 
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