Looking at upgrading my pc, would like some advice.

Matt84 · 5 May 2011 at 02:59

My pc died, and my uncle gave me his parts, I tried putting them together, and it seems something is broken. so I'm looking to upgrade most of it. I'm curious as to how theese will go together.

I'm looking at:

My QX6700 2.67ghz Quad

MSI G41M-P25 Intel G41 (Socket 775) DDR3 microATX Motherboard

Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 650W V2 High Performance Power Supply

MSI GeForce GTX 580 OC Twin FrozR II 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Would they work well together? I'm looking at some air-cooling stuff too, I have an 8800 gtx so i'm not looking to upgrade that immediately, mainly for BF3 which is a way aways from now. But I'd love your input, thanks in advance.

olivier renault · 5 May 2011 at 10:14

Not sure if the 775 will bottleneck the 580, but they should all be compatible, and the PSU is well up to the task.

What are the parts you buy and what are the recycled ones? It may be more beneficial to do a rebuild, and downgrade the 580 to a 570 / 480, and upgrade the rest.

95thrifles · 5 May 2011 at 10:28

Yeah depending on what you already have and what youre to buy, Id say if you havent already bought the RAM, look at faster PC12800 stuff as it will make overclocking easier, also (although I suspect you already have it) the mobo prob isnt the best for OCing
Also I assume youll want help diagnosing whats broken? So again whats old and whats new? And within the old system what if anything happens when you turn it on?

cmndr_andi · 5 May 2011 at 10:42

As 95trifles mentions, what is the issue you are having with the new kit?

Mind if we check through a few basic things?

Did you install the motherboard on stand-off/risers or directly onto the side of the case?

For power connections to the motherboard have you installed both the 24pin and 4 pin power connections from the PSU?

Have you connected the PCI-E power connections from the PSU to the graphics card?

On the motherboard, what positions are the small red box of three switches set to?

When you press the power button, does anything happen? Do the fans spin up, do you hear any beeps, or does nothing happen at all?

Is the CPU cooler attached securely, with a thin layer of thermal paste between the CPU top and the base of the heatsink and the CPU fan connected to the correct port on the board?

Is the clear CMOS jumper (JBAT1) connecting the lower two pins?

Matt84 · 6 May 2011 at 02:48

Hey guys. A while back my PSU died. So my uncle gave me his pc parts beacause he just uses a laptop and doesn't game anymore. But a while back his PC died too, he's quite knowledgable with pcs, and he figured it was a problem with one of his hard drives, not his actual hardware.

So I put his motherboard + q6700 in my antec 900, connected it all up and instead of posting it does 1 long beep, i checked post code beeps for award and it was utterly useless. absolutely no answers for 1 long 2 second beep. I removed all devices, except the GPU/1 stick of ram, tried that 1 stick in all 4 slots. tried with no ram, always the same, it turns on, fans spin, and just 'beeps' does nothing else. I've tried 2 graphics cards. my 8800 GTX and his 8800 GTS 512.

24 pin connector is in, as is the 4 pin connector next to the Processor. I've removed the CMOS battery for 1 hour and replaced it. No dice. I was always intending to upgrade purely for BF3. After checking toms hardware proscessor charts I saw that a QX6700 isn't that far behind a 2400 i5 which is what I was looking at.

I haven't bought anything yet. I just chose that mobo beacause it was cheap and seemed like the best of the ones there, the gigabyte looks ok too, but i was intending to ring up oc and make sure they have a coaxial audio output, i'm not a big OCer and the mobo is limited to 1333mhz ram.

mobo is installed into the case

both power cables are in

gpu is connected to psu

Fans spin, and light up, gpu fan spins, prosc fan spins but it does a single, long two second beep and everything just continues to spin till i shut it down.

I dont see a small red box of switches, the mobo is a gigabyte p35 ds3l if it helps.

yes both the cpu and the cooler have a thin layer of paste, however they weren't reapplied after they were removed from my uncles pc, just using the same paste.

As for the CMOS jumper, i googled it to see what you mean, but no idea, there's 2 small pins sticking out next to the battery, nothing is connected.