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Maximus VI Formula frys graphics cards?

stuntrunt
Level 7
Hello everyone,
first I would like to apolagize if my question has already been answered or if it is in the wrong place however, I think my board might be frying graphics cards. I bought my case, psu, mobo(maximus vi formula) , 4770k, 32g RAM, various drives and ect. I was using the internal graphics of the 4770k, but later put my very old EVGA 9800GT video card from my old build. After about 2 weeks of play with it, I was playing BF4 and got red vertical lines and then black screen. Took video card out, and used internal graphics again. At christmas, my father bought me a 780 from asus with the directcu2 fans, whatever it is and I installed it into my build. Booted my pc, installed drivers, ect. and got nothing but black screen, sat and watch if something would happed for 30 minutes or so. Then I was thinking maybe my PCIe slot was broke. However I had another 9800GT EVGA that was barely used and has been in my build ever since, going strong. I got the 780 RMA'ed and hopefully was only a bad card, but I dont know if it was or my mobo. I have also been reading that people have been having same issues with the mobo and graphics card. any advice would be appreciated, thanks and have a great day.
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HiVizMan
Level 40
Hello mate

Could you list your full hardware set and include how old your PSU is.

If there is anything that is going to kill hardware it is a PSU.

But to answer you question no it is very hard for a motherboard to 'kill' a VGA.
A spike from the PSU will and can kill pretty much every thing in double quick time.
To help us help you - please provide as much information about your system and the problem as possible.

Thank you for the reply. My current build is this:
Intel 4770k processor
Maximus VI Formula
Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 32GB RAM (x4 8GB)
x2 Mushkin Enhanced Chornos SSD's (1 240gb, 1 90gb)
300GB Hard Drive (from my old build, not sure what it is)
Asus 24x Blu-Ray Burner
NZXT Hale90 v2 850 Watt PSU
EVGA 9800GT VGA (will be Asus 780 soon)

HiVizMan
Level 40
OK your PSU is a good build quality I am pleased to say and I guess it is quite new.

Have a close look at the pins soldered into the motherboard right near tot he PCIe slots, are they all connected, has one or two lifted off?


But I think it was just coincidence that you had those VGA occurrences so close to each other.
To help us help you - please provide as much information about your system and the problem as possible.