Installation can start... Thu, Apr 3. 2008
As all the necessary hardware to start building the system has arrived, the installation can start....
Step 1: Unwrap the motherboard: 
Step 2: Unwrap the CPU: 
AMD includes an impressive cooler with the CPU (which I am not going to use): 
Step 3: Install the CPU on the motherboard, this is not a difficult job. Pull the lever at the right site of the CPU socket and pull it up to 90 degrees, so it opens up the holes for the processor pins. After aligning the gold arrow on the CPU with the arrow on the socket the CPU pops in automatically. While slightly pushing on the CPU return the lever in the original position and the CPU is installed:
Step 4: As the memory slots will be difficult to access after installation of the CPU cooler, I decided to install the two 1 Gbyte strips first. Gigabyte made this process easy by coloring the memory banks, put the strips in the same colored banks and we are up for two channel (which means fast) access to the memory: 
Step 5: Unwrap the Scythe Ninja Mini cooler: 
As you can see the cooler comes with an impressive number of acessories and a fan. Most of the acessories will not be used, and also the fan is not needed in the Antec Fusion casing.
The Scythe Ninja Mini is an impressive piece of equipment: 
Step 6: As the Scythe Ninja Mini cooler can be installed on Intel as well as AMD CPU's, Scythe provides a number of different acessories to attach it to the different CPU slots. So the first thing I have to do is install the proper bracket on the cooler. The bracket is installed with 4 philips type screws: 
