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"This bandicoot will be my general, he will lead my Cortex Commandos to world domination...
This time, I shall reign TRIUMPHANT!"
-Dr. Cortex
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In random news, a Gigabyte HD Radeon 6850 i ordered arrived DOA (dead on arrival). Which sucks. A lot. And to top it off, amazon won't give me a full refund because of a restocking charge. Have to wait a little bit to get the money to order a 560. I haz a sad.
Ouch.
I hope the Sapphire 6850 I installed won't die any time soon.
Thought mine died once ages ago, and it turned out that I forgot to put in the standoffs, so the card was precariously hanging out the edge of the PCI. I'm just so glad it didn't do any long-term damage. This PSU saved my sorry ass from frying my whole system.
I tried putting in the 4-pin connectors from my chassis fans into the motherboard. Apparently, I didn't need to do that because they were already getting power from the PSU, so I didn't need to plug them in again. I'm guessing those ports are for extra fans.
I also did a bunch of incorrect wire connecting. I'm so glad I decided to just start over with plugging a lot of things in, because I probably would've killed my system, even though just the case fans didn't work...
Anyway, my computer has been built. If you want pics, just ask of what, but I believe I have somewhat of a better understanding of computers now that I'm able to help people.