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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Make sure you also get an anti-static wrist strap for him and that he knows the static risks to electronic parts. Keep all components in their anti-static bags until the point of assembley.
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Overrated, you could also just build the machine in shoes, barefoot and make sure you touch a nearby radiator before handling components. Never do it in socks, especially on carpet. Also doesn't hurt to make sure your hands are clean.
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Originally Posted by ooogemaflop
4 gig of ram with windows 7 64 bit is absolutely fine built loads of fully loaded systems with 4 gig. 6 gig with a triple channel mobo
You could save money on the cpu by going with an Athlon II instead of the Phenom only difference is Lvl2 cache and benchmarks show the Athlon II performing equally clock for clock with the phenoms
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Using 4GB in my machine with no problems at all. I don't do any modern FPS gaming but Have played plenty of modern RTS games which are bog hogs on the CPU and RAM and haven't filled my 4GB. Also using an Athlon II Quad and have to say it performs extremely well though if the price difference is small enough I would still probably go for the Phenom.
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Originally Posted by ooogemaflop
It looks like a Super Socket 7 mobo. I had one originally came with a Cyrix 333 MMX cpu that was realy clocked @ 233mhz. Cyrix got in a lot of trouble for their naming structure. I remember upgrading it to a AMD K6 500 mhz iirc you had to set the Vcore the multi and the fsb all with jumpers. How times have changed lol
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looks more like a socket A board to me, there are more PCI than ISA rather than an equal amount and the IDE sockets are colour coded. On the socket 7s the sockets where generally black.
