Quote Originally Posted by nossy23 View Post
I'm planning to get this MB, but stilll have the following question:


- I'm not going to use watercooling, and I will be using the Noctua NH-D14 cpu cooler on a i7 920. I know with this cooler one can also not use the extra passive cooling on the MB because it won't fit together with the Noctua.



--> Is it still realistic to aim for 4 Ghz without watercooling and no extra Silent Pipe installed?
I don't think you're going to have any problem... 4.0Ghz is not a huge overclock for the 920, and as such, you should not be needing to play with much board voltage at all... mainly just the cpu. I would say as long as you have good air movement through your case, you should be just fine.