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Well, I had meant to take pics and document the process as I went, but as you can imagine, after weeks of careful planning, when I got my boxes yesterday, I just pushed everything off my desk and tore those boxes open.
After about 6 hours of careful reading, cross checking 3 different manuals (case, mobo, PSU), moving things around so they fit better (my CD and HDD had to be close together since their SATA power connectors were so darn close. Making sure I don't need to fuck with jumpers was stressful too, I'm glad I don't have IDE drives though.
When I put in the GPU (which is huge), I almost shit my pants. Seems like PCIe cards "snap" into place with a lever kind of thing...I definitely don't remember that with my old AGP. This one made a really loud noise whem I pushed it in, my first thought was that I cracked the mobo, or the GPU.
Anyway, booted to BIOS, glad I didn't need to RMA anything. It's still one 2 gigs of ram until I figure out what I wanna install first. Probably Vista 64bit. Also, anyone aware of any problems with dual booting the new Windows 7 release candidate and Vista?
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