It is great for older systems Neuro - I use a cheaper SuperTalent 32GB with the HDDBoost.

The 980X is pretty cool running overall...much like the i3/i5 chips are.

i ran 4ghz on mt stock cooler

10-4 DOM - I will probably run close to default settings on this one...I have noticed no gains to be had overclocking the cpu for online gaming anyway. :good:

Sounds like a slick build you are gonna have Rick. Care to share your frustrations with AMD for a gaming platform? Was there a noticable performance difference? Stock clocks or overclocked?

Probably a combination of things Chuch. The Thuban is presently sitting in a ASUS Crosshair III Formula with a Saaphire 5870...it just seems overall sluggish compared to recent Intel builds. Hard to pinpoint really, but very annoying to me. The snappiest rig to date for me has been the i5 670 coupled with a Gigabyte or MSI mb.

Interesting. I built my grandparents a little AMD dual core rig last Christmas. To this day I think it feels snappier than any X58 rig I've put together. Now just yesterday I put the in-laws a P55 together and that focker was snappy all around. I still want to build me an AMD daily gaymer rig. Just to be different I guess.

I think it is probably just a quirky combination of parts that give it that feel. On the other hand every i3/i5 rig has been outstanding in every way. Who knows, this 980X may be the biggest dud of them all lol.

Sounds interesting. As snappy as X58 feels, I am running a AthII 240 right in a HP till my CHIII comes back. IMC is everything!

It is WAY snappier than my X58

(hmm well no... the X58 at 4.5 GHz 6-6-6 ram at 1740MHz and the OCZ veretxII does put up a good fight....)

Is "snappy" to become the next buzz word in the pc world? Hahaha! I'm a big fan of snappy I am... :D

Yah I meant stock clocks. I gaymed on my classy for a month or so last fall. Of course when I was cruising at 4.35ghz for a daily clock it felt a little faster than the AMD rig. There is one big difference though. AMD rig is running Win7 and I was running vista.