Quote Originally Posted by cantankerous View Post
Sweet pics bud! I'm going through them now. Hopefully all the problems you were having earlier will be sorted out.

Hmmm... I see you have the Ultra 120 Extreme installed with the fans facing north and south, not east and west. Was this a personal choice or is that the only way it would mount? I am hearing conflicting reports of it fitting one way but not the other. I am very curious as to your findings after trying to install the TRUE on this board. I heard the NB heatsink gets very close to the heatpipes but it does fit?? Please let me know as I am up in the air on fans because of this issue. 38mm thick fans don't look to fit very well as a suck at the top portion of the TRUE in the TJ09 which is the case I am also using. Much appreciated.
Personal choice of installing the fan like that. See my worklog - post #2. That's how the airflow is designed to work in my case. Didn't try it the other way, but looking at it, I don't think I would have a problem turning it the other way (the heatpipes are taller than the northbridge). However, I've also been told that having this HS facing north to south provides better cooling so the choice is really up to you. As you can tell my temps seem to be just fine. I'll just have to wait for my RMA'd PSU to return before I overclock.

My problems with this board were being caused from most incompatiability with Vista 64. I had to:

1. RMA my Enermax - because it was defective - and it was causing most of my problems
2. The BIOS needed to be updated to use 4GB's of RAM - wouldn't boot otherwise (updated to the 8/15 release)
3. Needed to update the SATA drivers to get it to detect my harddrives properly.

Besides that no other problems and things have seem to be running just fine with this board.