Message from @Towelie
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I don't know, p67 is a pretty old one 😄
it's usually in the name of your motherboard
Ohh right
The board is an asus p5q
for example mine is a x99
hmm p45 chipset should be fine if you use the right DDR2 sticks with the right freq
DDR 2
can't see the freq of those, let me check the reference just to be 100% sure
yeah PC2-8500 it's fine
I was thinking about running an os off a USB to check how it would look like in the system
hmm it's gonna be hard for you to test... it's either a hardware issue with your ram sticks or your mobo (try to change the slots if you have extra ones)
or it could be a firmware issue too but the chances are pretty low
the thing is, DDR2 is pretty anciant now and are expensive for what they do
I saw
But this motherboard doesn't go above that so it's all I have for now
there's several tests like "memcheck" that are provided with most linux distro livecd / usb
you could probably check that but I don't know if that will be of any uses
yeah I know, and if you change your mobo you basically change your whole PC...
or if you have extra DDR2 compatible sticks arounds (friends or whatever)
but as I said, they are pretty expensive due to their age
I'll do that
I was going to buy more either way
🤞 pray it's not the mobo that was fried 🤞
Right.. 😅
well either way, it looks like your PC is 10+ years old considering the type of ram stick you use. Maybe it's should be a good time to consider buying a newer one. I know it's a budget but yeah... consider the time this poor piece of hardware was in use. ^^"
The motherboard's the only thing old about it
And the CPU..
The rest is fresh
yeah well that's pretty much what constitute your PC lol
I did got the motherboard/ram/CPU for 70€
What else is there
I mean, you don't need to get the last over priced hardware like a 1700€ cpu and whatnot, just that it's gonna cost more and more money to maintain your actuall PC if you have any issues
>buying Shintel
Come on Towelie clearly Threadripper is better
if AMD would allow me to do direct I/O without any issues i'd consider it
but it's not the case
there's a gtx 1050 gpu, a corsair cx500 power supply, a new cooler master fan and a new case
i'm gonna keep my 6950x 😉