Upgrade PSU and add on video card

[phillpower2]

Aye, good to go Veeg (y)

Read your NZXT article info Mark and can see why it may be slightly misleading;

“Comes with no cables pre-attached. You only attach the ones you need.”

[Markh510]

Just an update for you guys that have helped me soo much over this while ordeal… I got the PSU today and connected everything up and now the pc will power up which is an inprovement lol
However there is still the display issues when using both the video card and the normal vga port… I will try taking the video card out again to see if that helps at all but I imagine that this means a new mb is likely needed

[Markh510]

Okay so guessing this is my newbie-ness showing through but taking the video card out seems to have solved the display problem and so now I imagine that it is just the video card that will need replacing lol

[phillpower2]

Just an update for you guys that have helped me soo much over this while ordeal… I got the PSU today and connected everything up and now the pc will power up which is an inprovement lol
However there is still the display issues when using both the video card and the normal vga port… I will try taking the video card out again to see if that helps at all but I imagine that this means a new mb is likely needed

Okay so guessing this is my newbie-ness showing through but taking the video card out seems to have solved the display problem and so now I imagine that it is just the video card that will need replacing lol

Can you copy/paste the above information into your thread here please Mark, mixing up information from two threads is not a good idea as it can cause confusion and lead to mishaps.

[Markh510]

Hey guys, what should I be looking for in an add on video card?
I went on the part picker site and have gotten a list down on stuff I can think of but now it’s just a case of how to decide which is better or whether I am looking at much overkill lol
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products...sort=d8&r=6144
Hopefully that should be the list of ones I had narrowed it down to and as I say i’m just looking to find out which would be best for me
cheers again guys

[phillpower2]

You can narrow that list down to four cards by ruling out the Zotac and the Gigabyte mini itx type card, I personally would go for the fastest of the cards as it also has ACX cooling something that my present GPU has and which I can vouch for keeps things cool, the second EVGA only has the one cooling fan and the other MSI card was described as being a bit flimsy by one user, not good for a £200+ product, either one of the following two will do, both require a 400W PSU and 27 amps on the +12V rail so you are well covered power wise.

EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB SSC GAMING ACX Graphics Card
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Graphics Card

[Markh510]

Okay guys I have ordered the EVGA video card suggested above. I am now looking at a few other bits and pieces that might help making things faster etc. I see that a solid state hard drive seems to be a good improvement although the drawback is that I can only seem to find up to 1tb ones and I am already using more than that on my current HD.
Was wonder what advice you guys had about this? I read that it could be beneficial to get a SSD for the OS and then a SATA HD for the rest of the memory needs, what do you guys think?

[phillpower2]

SSD for the OS and a separate partition on the SSD for your favourite games, the price difference between a 250+ and 480GB SSd is around £40 for a good one example here

Your MB ASUS P8Z77-V LX specs here

I would suggest a clean install of Windows and the MBs chipset drivers to the SSD rather than cloning the present HDD although there is migration software available if you wish to go that route.

[Markh510]

The only issue with the clean install is that I only have a disc for windows 8 which I got the free upgrade to 10 on and i don’t think that they are still doing that anymore, though i may be mistaken.

[phillpower2]

As you have previously upgraded to Windows 10 via Windows 8 you can download and burn a Windows 10 ISO to a DVD or USB thumb drive, I recommend the DVD option as it is less problematic with changing the boot sequence and secure boot option etc.

How it works, when you took advantage of the free upgrade to Windows 10 the details for your present MB and product key etc were stored on the MS database.

Take a look at the guide here to see if you are ok with it, you want option two (create media to use on another computer).

[veeg]

Any updates for us?

[veeg]

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