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Old 07-17-2010, 11:38 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by sclitheroe View Post
9GB would be normal on an i7 system - it’s a triple channel memory configuration, so you install RAM in multiples of 3. Assuming the motherboard has 3 slots per channel, it makes sense. I don’t know how many slots most i7 mobo’s have - I haven’t seen too many, unfortunately.
I haven't been following the 1366 boards that closely but the memory I've seen comes in 2GB sticks X3 for 6 GB or 2GB sticks X6 for 12 GB. I guess you could combine 3 2GB sticks with 3 1GB sticks.

For a hard drive, I'd look at getting an SSD large enough to put his games and OS on and another regular 500GB drive.

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