Rooster; the work log.

[Vinas]

I've got two of those 38mm fans but they're so friggin loud, are you planning on having them on the fan controller?

Yes. Fan controller very necessary!!! I think people will eventually go crazy w/o a controller. TBH it is very quiet with good airflow at half speed. All of my fans are connected to a port on my fan controller... it's kinda cool.

Nice build log Vina.

I'm thinking about putting my E8400 out to pasture and stepping up to a Core I5 750 with an EVGA P55 FTW board. How you liking your I5 so far? You have any regrets not going for the Core I7 socket 1366s?

Hi Miller. I'm glad you asked because I went from an e8400 @ 4.2GHz to this!

If HT is important to you I'd go with the 860 or d0 920. For me, I mostly game and sometimes encode video files. The "sometimes encodes" part is why I bought a quad. I noticed that several people disable HT for supposedly better overclocks. So IMHO if you are going to OC, you may as well put that extra money into a better video card. Or the other school of thought could be the opposite. Buy a cheaper vid and put that saved cash into a better CPU.

Clock for clock with HT enabled the 860 usually out performs the 750. So if that is worth $80 then go for it! To me it wasn't and so far this CPU has been a gem. Really either way you should be a happy camper!