£2,000 build - Power on no boot :(

[iv-tecman]

Have you still got your old graphics card? Try it with this first and then you'll know if the graphics card is having problems..

 

[AdladUK]

Have you still got your old graphics card? Try it with this first and then you'll know if the graphics card is having problems..

Yeah I put my 470 GTX in which also has a custom cooler (different type though) and it works perfectly fine. No crashing.

Also my GPU temp is now reading around 30c idle, even with max resolution on desktop, as oppose to 70c idle with no graphics drivers installed on the 480. So something is seriously wrong with my Zalman cooler. It's the Zalman VF3000-F

 

[Tikkabhuna]

w00t

Nothing worse than a new build failing to POST the very first time you switch it on

My latest build was like that. Luckily it didn't take me long to realise I didn't put the memory in.

 

[AdladUK]

Couple of pics of the setup:

Still need to do a bit of final work on the cabling, but it's not too bad and the air flow is really good. I also need to add a 2nd 480 for SLI and one of the new Seagate Momentus drives. Other than that pretty pleased with it overall