Hey, thanks! Pics of side on? Why, I just might have one around here somewhere...



Takes computing to a new level, eh?


Anyhoo, looks like Thermochill is to blame for emptying more of my wallet, both on initial purchase and post-sale support. The darn things work so well that I am forced to retire my XBX2 due to it not wanting to give up more than 412 FSB without acting goofy. Rock solid at 412 though...




And running really cool too. I forgot to check the ambient temp there though, but I'll say now that I dont have to worry about melting the computer down, there is much more headroom I believe still left in my CPU. However my XBX2 is not cooperative, go a MHz or two beyond 412 and lockups, shut downs, random Orthos crashes occur that cant be fixed with more voltage to the 975x to stabilize it. I guess what they say about that chipset being a low 400's chipset is true. So, a shiny new Asus P5K Deluxe should be arriving this Friday, with all the high FSB fun these are supposed to provide. At 3.8GHz I could pull a 9 hour Orthos run at 1.52 vcore (~1.5 vdroop) on the XBX2, so I have some vcore headroom left for some fun I think before hitting Intel's offical 'bad things will happen' limit of 1.55 vcore. Should be interesting.

nealh: I think that maybe my loose side panel was intentional. I have been thinking how easy it is to slide it open to poke around in there compared to the other side which is nice and tight. Is yours the left panel as viewed from the front? Thanks for the Dynamat link!