Man I looked up in the manual twice before installing RAM to make sure I had it in the right spot.

I first got the board and said "Man it will be really gay if the whole board is bloack, and I have to put RAM in the black slots so the green ones stick out."

Read the manual, and that is what I saw. Put the ram in the black slots. Checked again. Tried booting with one stick. Finally moved it to last DIMM slot (a green one) and it fired up.

Still does the F3-F6 post things 3 times, but it fires up now :)

Going to rip off the stock cooler, put the water back on and pray to god I can figure out all these new crazy BIOS settings.

Least ur breathin again bro :D

heh heh yah only took me about 10 minutes to cool down :)

I know how it is, you get frustrated cuz things are supposed to work like magic but then the noobness sneaks up and bites ur arse for not reading the manual! ;)

LOL the sad part is, I read the manual TWICE and swore it the diagram showed the black slots being 1,3,5 (I should have known better my MSI board was the same way.

Anywho, definietly need to soak the pump and rad after I pull the loop apart. with 47F window air, I am prime 64 blending at 4200 MHZ 58-54-59-54 (60-56-60-55 with fans at 7v)

I know someone is going to say... check your mount, I will, but this CPU had that same disparity of core temperatures on air on the other board as well. So the 5C differnce is "normal" for this chip


Gave it 1.4v cuz thats how I roll, Mem at 1600 7-7-7 . Going to DL eleet and see how much more I can ask of her at 1.4 ;)

Oh not a benching PC yet, I have not reinstalled windows just plugged it in set raid in BIOS and away we go :)

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...cs/wc001-1.jpg
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Had it up to 4.65 HTT and yes that is a 15C idle CPU socket temp shot :)
(cores were running 25-30C idle 60C load) Mem crapped out at 1800 7-7-7 at 1.8v though. So going to drop to 8-8-8 before I go about giving it more volts :)

Gotta go help my cuz do some drywall today, might get an opportunity to OC some, unless I stick around to watch the game tonight. GO EAGLES!

Can't wait till I take this loop apart and clean out hte block and rad :) Should make a nice difference. Also going to call around to some art supply stores locally and grab some kneaded eraser for when it gets colder :D

Man, that setup is treating ya good dude :)

Did you end up getting the same board as me? If so hit me up on MSN if you have any questions, I pretty much no this board by memory lol and its BIOS settings too!

Wow, I like that setup Neuronutterz :D
Droooool :good:

Will be a lot nicer if I can drop a 295 on it ;) Although dunno how well the 4 fan rad would keep ALL that heat cool ;)

bro i7's put out lotta heat. I don't know how that rad will handle a 295