<0>  Current PC setting pics - <1> (to 8.JPG)

 

<1>  All about the various PC power supply cables and connectors  (src)

 

<2>  PC/newPC.2012.doc

ASRock 970 EXTREME3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard    -  $85  (newegg.com price $75, 10/17/2012)

AMD Athlon II X4 640 Propus 3.0GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor ADX640WFGMBOX     -  $100 ; $80, 12/2012

AMD FX-6100 Zambezi 3.3GHz Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor FD6100WMGUSBX  - $105, 12/2012

DDR3-1333 is better (newegg.com price $28; crucial is $38) - Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600)  BLT2KIT2G3D1337DT1TX0

DDR3 2100(OC)/1866*/1800*/1600*/1333/1066/800 non-ECC, un-buffered memory - http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=970%20Extreme3&Cat=RAM

(1) http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=49606F64A5CA7304   - $28  (newegg.com cheaper $27)

Part Number: CT2KIT25664BA1067

CL=7 is good!  CL=9 is worse than it.

CL — CAS (column address strobe) latency, which is the number of clock cycles it takes before data starts to flow after a command is received. Lower CL is faster. Modules with different CL can be mixed on a system, but the system will only run at the highest (slowest) CL.

(2) DDR3-1333 is better (newegg.com price $28; crucial is $38) - Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600)  BLT2KIT2G3D1337DT1TX0 .   According to crucial site, it is compatible with  ASRock 970 Extreme3


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How to Transfer your Complete Windows 7 Installation to a New Computer
Windows 7 System Preparation Tool is a powerful, native Windows tool. When for instance used in so called Audit Mode, it let's you to freely configure Windows 7 to be then deployed to other computers as hardware independent image.

In this tutorial we use System Preparation Tool (sysprep) to prepare your Windows 7 installation to be moved to a new computer, keeping all your installed applications, program settings and user profiles. You can use this method for instance when you have bought a new PC and want to transfer your existing setup completely, without need to reinstall everything, or when you want to make major hardware changes like change the motherboard or GPU, which would usually cause Windows to stop booting normally.

Warning: Using this method causes Windows 7 to lose all activation information, and it needs to be reactivated afterwards. 
warning   Warning
PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO CREATE A SYSTEM IMAGE BEFORE PROCEEDING!


As you can read on this thread, on rare occasions this method does not work. If this happens, you can always restore your system using your backup image.

Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup
System Image Recovery

So I can change mobo+CPU+RAM without changing SSD/HDD & reinstall everything of Win7 again.  (*The old Win XP will lose)