And I vote once more from my own personal experience with this stupid case design that the 8500 gets a Road Apple award for user friendliness!
Make sure you make your ram selection wisely! I spent about 8 hours across two days a year or so ago when I was prepping my 8500 for use with a Digidesign rig. I would think Ijust got it the way I wanted, then would decide I would love to run it with a bit more memory, or would find that a couple of the ram sticks were bad that I was trying.. Utterly frustrating.
If you have all the ram to max out that box, put it all in ONCE and never have to screw with it again. Be very careful with that plastic button set thing at the bottom from of the motherboard too! I snapped mine, but luckily had a service part laying around in a box.
Good luck!
Make sure you make your ram selection wisely! I spent about 8 hours across two days a year or so ago when I was prepping my 8500 for use with a Digidesign rig. I would think Ijust got it the way I wanted, then would decide I would love to run it with a bit more memory, or would find that a couple of the ram sticks were bad that I was trying.. Utterly frustrating.
If you have all the ram to max out that box, put it all in ONCE and never have to screw with it again. Be very careful with that plastic button set thing at the bottom from of the motherboard too! I snapped mine, but luckily had a service part laying around in a box.
Good luck!