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pinchet
Oct 18, 2002

lobstarrrrr!!
I just recently purchased some stuff to upgrade my computer.

The motherboard I got has 3x PCIe x16, 2x PCI, 1x PCIe x1 configured in this order, top to bottom:

PCIe x16
PCIe x1
PCIe x16
PCI
PCIe x16
PCI

The GPU I got takes up 2 slots. Everything I've read tells me to put the GPU into the top most PCIe x16 slot if I am not going to be running SLI. The soundcard that I got is PCIe x1, and therefore if I put the GPU into the top most PCIe x16 slot, I will be covering the PCIe x1 slot.

Can I just put the GPU into a lower slot? or did I gently caress up by getting a PCIe x1 soundcard.

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pinchet
Oct 18, 2002

lobstarrrrr!!
I have an old SATA HDD that is partitioned into C and D.. C contains a severely messed up version of Windows. D contains a whole bunch of MP3s.

Can I just plug it into my current computer which already has a C and D (2 different HDD's though) and retrieve my MP3s off of what was D on the old computer?

Will it attempt to boot from the messed up version of windows? Will there be any issues with C and D already existing?

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