Problem solved. Disconnected the fan that was in the case and hey presto system booted up. Only discovered this after spending money on a Corsair PSU and an HD5750! At least i got my money back on the piece of shit Acbel PSU even if it wasnt the problem.

How is this different from every other forum around.

Saw Avatar 3D. What a waste of money. Left the cinema rather annoyed.

Never understood this game. Tried it once and didnt understand why people bothered. Must have missed something.

Recently got a cheap mobo for my Phenom II X2 550. It was the Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P. Despite being cheap it has excellent reviews online even for gaming compared to boards twice the cost. Only problem is you will have to get DDR 3 RAM which is a bit more expensive but if DDR 3 is going to be the future then why not make the switch now.

Also look at the Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM 320GB drive for one seriously fast HDD. Costs a bit more but you have to expect that.

As for graphics cards just look at benchmarks for what you can afford and go from there. The 295 is fast but with a silly price tag. ATI 5970 is faster still and again more expensive.

Last edited by sil3ntwar, Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:21.

It has been nothing but fail in the last few years. Run by a bunch of control freaks.

I can only get 20 pins in with the old PSU. The extra 4 wont go in. With the 20 pins nothing happened at all.

The mobo has a 24 pin power slot. I put the 20+4 into this. Then it has an 8 block slot. There is a 4+4 cable that fits in here although makes no difference.
The PSU is an AcBel iPower 660 which i just read a really bad review about. It is 610W so it should be more than enough to start. I only have cpu, ram and GFX connected at most.

Ok so i figured out it wont run with the GFX card in its place. No idea why though....

Old PSU wouldn't hook up to new mobo. Well the 20 pin would but the 4 pin wouldn't fit anywhere. So i wanted to get a new PSU with 24 + 8 rather than 20+4 however i was working today so got my dad to get one. The shop sold him a 20+4 600W and said it would work. Now this one fits fine however when i hit the power button the LED on the PSU lights up then dies and the cpu fan spins for a split second before stopping.

Nothing ever works first time for me and its really starting to piss me off. Especially since the shop i got it from is closed until the 4th of Jan.

Thanks for the replies. I think i will get a 500W sometime in the next few weeks. Will try and run the bare basics with the 300W for now.

I thought this was hilarious http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z46_8EkC3g

I work for Foodstuffs and i used to work for Progressive. Wonder if putting flyers up at work would get a response

I can not think of anything cooler.

This is your facebook group? Might want to link to it. Never noticed any envelopes being sent as well.

Currently running a 300W PSU however i have just got some new parts.

They are as follows

Phenom II X2 550 BE
MA770T-UD3P
2GB DDR3
ATI HD2600 Pro

Old system is
Athlon XP 2500
MSI K7N2 someting
1GB DDR2
9600XT
Audigy Soundcard


Probably going to use the onboard sound on the new Mobo. Will i need a 400W PSU or do you reckon the 300W will do. Also is there anything wrong with the cheap PSUs? I see brand named ones sell for over twice the price for no apparent reason.

Yeah because Tilke designed the streets of rome.

Sorry don't see what the fuss is all about.

Fantastic that he is in F1. Who cares if he just becomes a midfield runner it beats waiting tables!

Quote from S3ANPukekoh3 :

Brenon Hartley anyone?

As much as i would love to see him race in F1 he has had some rubbish results lately in other formulas. Hopefully it does happen though.

Quote from Becky Rose :

I used to use thunderflashes Faaaaaar more effective. Smoke just gets blown about and unless you're using something military spec you have to throw so many to get any kind of effect.

Lots of things are easy to make, like napalm. It's all down to whether you want to loose the self defence line in court, as bomb making is mutually exclusive with that...

Im glad you live on the other side of the world.

You just posted a video about how to make smoke grenades and your still asking the question on how to make them?

Quote from SL1DE :

you can make a silly cockpit and look at a stooge or you can buy a real car...

thats my opinion, i'd prefer the buy a real car option.

You can continue playing demo and look like a stooge or you can buy S2 and drive some real cars...

Quote from Equinox :

"Darkside" by Trystero.

Its from youtubes Audioswap library, I cant seem to find a video of it on youtube itself though

You sir are a winner

Thanks a lot for this

Quote from GianniC :

Already been posted once


So typical Japanese:
"When was the last time they raced here ?"
"No idea"
"It was way back then when they still had HVC video! 1997!"

Like HVC video is thàt old...

HVC? You mean VHS?