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Old 10-15-2011
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Set it up and did a run like the others with it.
Just as easy to setup with the 775 as it was with the AM3+ and the installation was a snap.

With the 775's equal spacing of the cooler mounting holes, I was able to turn it any way I wanted to but did it so that I could use all four RAM slots with any RAM sticks I wanted to use, plus with the cooler being as close to the sticks as it was, it actually gave a cooling effect to the sticks.
One thing I did note is again with the cooler's massive overhang it did sit really close to the board's NB cooler and it was a little trouble to get the 8-pin and CPU fan connectors hooked up but wasn't too much of a prob to do.

Since this board isn't a great OC'er I coudn't really push the CPU hard like I wanted but the temps it showed during the run at least showed it as being capable - I mean if it can keep a Thuban with six cores cool enough it should have no problem with a dual core, provided it doesn't run into a thermal spike due to excessive CPU voltages.
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Last edited by Bones; 10-15-2011 at 02:26 AM.
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