Hell, 4Ghz IS slow as balls, although I've never heard that phrase before :taunt:

As compared to Fast as Balls? Running? Pumping? Other? :D

:rofl:

Figured I'd throw in here since I have the Frio I won in the comp set up with the Thuban and my "New" CHV board.
I already have some pics of what it looks like and have already noted as many have said you have to use low profile RAM with it. Anything with a upward heatspreader extension will not work but sticks that look like the older RAM types will be fine with it.

I'll give the TIM a few days to setup properly and I'll begin OC'ing it to see how well it works.
More to come.

Lotta these newer h/s don't leave much room, if any, for newer ram h/s. You'd think they would be paying attention to the ram market or lobby for a mm or two with the mobo manufs.

Tuned in for your results bones.

Lol!! you have no idea at how much I agree with this :-/ during testing I had to pop heatspreaders off my modules :(

Im workin on getting heatsinks a lil taller or an offset toward the Vreg area to allow clearance. :thumbsup:

its just a bitch tbh as heatsinks need to be big to properly dissipate heat, and if we make it taller to fit modules then it wont fit in a case :thumbdown:

btw new heatsink on the way soon. well not really soon but soon I hope.... its gonna be big though lol

With the CHV as it would be with about any board used with it, you can only run RAM sticks like older sticks are but with the MSI I could have ran any RAM type I wanted provided I only used the outer slots, not possible to do with the inner slots.
Since these slots share the same channel (Non-staggered config related to RAM channel) this means you could use any RAM you want with the MSI board I have and the Frio.
If wanting to fill all four RAM slots, that's a different story.

So far I can say the cooler moves a ton of air through it and wasn't hard to setup. Had to remove the stock cooling retaining collar/bracket but no real biggie since I'm sure we've all done that before. If you turn up the fans, it's kinda loud but I've heard worse before and at it's lowest setting it's nearly silent and still moves alot of air through the cooler. Another thing I like about it is if you need to clean it out, just unclip the fan shroud from the cooler, raise it up and clean it.
You can easily clean the cooler itself and both inner/outer sides of the fans once the shroud is removed.

An offset would make too much sense :Dizzy:
Could cause a slow-down in manufacturing process, lord knows we can't stop churning out heatsinks or the world would overheat :cool3:

Not just the Frio, seems to be a trend :P Had to cut a piece of the fan shroud off my A70 to accommodate teh north bridge, and forget about using the first RAM slot. :thumbdown: Cools like a son of a bitch though :thumbsup:

Sarcasm noted ;)

Just remember also have to fight against uber big vreg sinks as some manuf still think that the vreg gets hot enough to need the equivelant of a damned true on the vregs :p