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 😉

and also windows and a HDD that'll arrive tomorrow

wow a 1050 on that mobo ?

yeah lol

it works

did you know that your mother board isn't able to use that correctly ? 😄

Well that's the one thing I didn't pay for, so

I mean, PCI express 3.0... vs PCI express 2.0

in what way does it not use it correctly

?

it's not able to use the bandwidth your graphic cards needs

plus I doubt your CPU wouldn't throttle that either

so of course it'll works

but you're probably using like less than 50% of your graphic card capability

you said you didn't bought it, that's cool, because it would have been a "stupid move" if you did

a cheaper stuff would have done the same job

I got it from the power cord friend.

He has no screen to use for his pc right now

yeah nice guy

still it's like using a SLI of 1080Ti on a Pentium II

if that was even possible (damn I miss AGP lol)

so about those linux distro's..

just grab anything that has a live CD / USB

which ones would include the memcheck?

any one?

I tend to use the gparted stuff

it's usefull for a lot of things, considering partitioning, resizing, etc your drive partitions

what's that?

gparted

http://gparted.org/download.php

it's a GNU software to manage your HDD partitions etc

the live CD isn't really a distro, it's just a linux kernel with a gnome 2 shell DE and a couple of utilities like gparted and other stuff

it has memetestx86 on the bootmenu

http://gparted.org/screens/gparted-live-boot.jpg

isn't that a program you run inside the os?

nop

that's the boot menu

you need to boot on it

not on your HDD but on the CD/DVD/USB whatever

it doesn't install anything, it's just a diagnostic tool