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I went with the i3-540, Gigabyte H55M-S2V, and 2x2GB RAM sticks. I did the following generic installation: -Added a 120GB SATA drive (system is already running Win7 x64) -Switched BIOS settings for the hard drives to AHCI **BEFORE** installing windows 7 -Switched BIOS power settings to x64...

Thank you for the guide :) One thing to add to the guide, select the internal speakers option for the audio in the system preferences -> audio area. Beyond this, I already had Win7 x64 running on my PC with the H55M-S2V board and 2 x 2GB RAM sticks with an nVidia 9500GT card. I was able to...

I realise I have an nVidia 9500GT and ATi 5450. I'll be checking later to see if either of these will work, but if someone knows offhand and can save me the leg work that'd help :) :) EDIT: Looks like the 9500GT 1GB is supported, but mine is from a different manufacturer. I'm assuming that as...

I couldn't find the board you recommended at a reasonable price (most places have it as out of stock) but i have been able to find the GA-H55M-S2V locally at a fair price. I'll be combining it with the i3 processor. Now all I need to do is pick a low end graphics card (suggestions welcome and...

Just another note - I was planning on using the onboard video. I'll be doing some research on this tonight to see if it's even possible. This build will NOT be for gaming! :)

I'm very new to all this and in the process of reading through things. I have OsX 10.6.3 from the Apple Store and everything else I need from this site and in terms of hardware EXCEPT a compatible motherboard and CPU (all my on-hand items are AMD, except for my EeePC but apparently I need a...