Hello, anyone able to help me find a reasonably priced motherboard, socket LGA 1150. I have a i5 4590 processor and GTX 960. I would like to overclock my card, I'm not sure if it's even possible to overclock the CPU. Can anyone help me out? Willing to pay up to 100-110$ max and MAYBE a little more if the price is right. My current is a gigabyte H81M-H and I think it's dying lol
Looking for a good 1150 Motherboard!
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What makes you think your current MB is dying?
Really depends on the balance of your components. While the 430W unit from Corsair is a very much "budget" unit..... it should be capable for a (relatively) low powered rig, including a 960 (w/120W reference TDP)
Don't expect too much OCing headroom from that card though.
Really depends on the balance of your components. While the 430W unit from Corsair is a very much "budget" unit..... it should be capable for a (relatively) low powered rig, including a 960 (w/120W reference TDP)
Don't expect too much OCing headroom from that card though.
I have 16gb of ram, just bought an SSD, probably going to use my old hard drive in this as well. i5 4590, GTX 960. I use every port possible and 3 monitors. Also I don't know, I get a lot of blue screens. Could be a lot of things but I'm not sure.
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Motherboard issues tend to be more "X" no longer works (onboard audio, USB ports etc) or simply not posting.
While the IO on that board isn't overly substantial, an AIC (for more USB etc) or via the headers would be a more viable option (and cheaper!)
Bluescreens would be more commonly found as a result of driver issues, a corrupt OS, (potentially) a failing HDD etc OR components like memory.
If they appear random, I'd be inclined to look to your OS/drive. If they occur under load, drivers or memory.
^That's a pretty simplistic summary, of course.... but I don't think there's any reason to replace the board.
I would start with either a clean OS install, depending on how you installed the SSD.
If you just 'cloned' the HDD to an SSD, you cloned the good/bad/ugly. If you clean installed the OS to the SSD, I'd move on and check the memory using Memtest.
While the IO on that board isn't overly substantial, an AIC (for more USB etc) or via the headers would be a more viable option (and cheaper!)
Bluescreens would be more commonly found as a result of driver issues, a corrupt OS, (potentially) a failing HDD etc OR components like memory.
If they appear random, I'd be inclined to look to your OS/drive. If they occur under load, drivers or memory.
^That's a pretty simplistic summary, of course.... but I don't think there's any reason to replace the board.
I would start with either a clean OS install, depending on how you installed the SSD.
If you just 'cloned' the HDD to an SSD, you cloned the good/bad/ugly. If you clean installed the OS to the SSD, I'd move on and check the memory using Memtest.
Thank you so much for your time and answers. Yeah, I did a clean install to the SSD. I am just going to redownload everything and I kept the few files I wanted which was less than 8gb worth on a USB drive so I can just plug that in and copy them over within a few seconds. I will try that, I think it could be my ram causing the blue screens, in that case I'll just have to get some new ram! I'm scared to overclock my card on my 430W PSU.
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The fact it's "430W" isn;t the issue - quality & age would be my bigger concerns.
Assuming one of these are your PSU:
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story4&reid=214
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story5&reid=239
All in all, they're not "horrible" units..... but they don't have the best internals, so longevity is certainly not their strong suit.
Given you have an 84W TDP CPU and a 120W TDP GPU... say +50W max for the balance, your max (stock) power draw is in the 250W range.
If the PSU hasn't been ridden hard for it's 4 years of usage, it should still be more than capable for some modest OCing .... which is all you're likely to achieve on that GPU anyway.
Assuming one of these are your PSU:
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story4&reid=214
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story5&reid=239
All in all, they're not "horrible" units..... but they don't have the best internals, so longevity is certainly not their strong suit.
Given you have an 84W TDP CPU and a 120W TDP GPU... say +50W max for the balance, your max (stock) power draw is in the 250W range.
If the PSU hasn't been ridden hard for it's 4 years of usage, it should still be more than capable for some modest OCing .... which is all you're likely to achieve on that GPU anyway.
I've game'd on this computer every single day for 4 years nearly not sure if that's considered ridden hard but yeah. Thanks so much for the info. My last question is if I were to overclock my GPU and the PSU fails is something bad going to happen to the rest of my computer?
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With the same components? Gaming isn't likely to stress the components to their max - so I'd expect you were typically hovering more in the 175W range, max.
It's hard to judge with such a budget unit..... but I would expect it to have some life left in it yet.
As for "'bad" things happening..... Again, budget unit so it's tough to say with 100% certainty.... but it does have a decent amount of protection.
I would expect nothing more than crashes/failures to post if the PSU was to 'fail'.
It's hard to judge with such a budget unit..... but I would expect it to have some life left in it yet.
As for "'bad" things happening..... Again, budget unit so it's tough to say with 100% certainty.... but it does have a decent amount of protection.
I would expect nothing more than crashes/failures to post if the PSU was to 'fail'.
I'll give it a shot.TRENDING THREADS
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