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Default CCFLs flickering?

Okay, these are barely over a month old, and they just started flickering a few days ago. They'll be full brightness some of the time, and dim some of the time. And they'll just flicker intermittently. Are they seriously failing already? Thanks

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is the molex connector that your using under a lot of stress? try a different molex connector see if that fixes the issue.
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i took out my ccfls today xD i have to say my pc looks way better now
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i took out my ccfls today xD i have to say my pc looks way better now
Nice! Your post is so irrelevant!

Try changing the molex connectors.
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I'll give that a shot tomorrow and post back. I don't feel like digging around on the "ugly" side of my case tonight :P

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test the connections, if that dosent work try returning them it might be you got bad bulbs.....

note just thought of this, if your psu stable?
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