Guys...don't do this at home!

Well...I've fiddled with custom builds since I was 16, now I'm 30 but it seems that sometimes things just go plain wrong way even with some experience...

So I got my RIVE and 3930K and wanted to put things on my table to test it first. So I had my NH-D14 with some Noctua backplate. OK I'll have to switch the backplate on the mobo for 1366 cooler to fit. I went to our couch to work since I don't have space on my computer table. So I took out the 2011 backplate and was about to install the 1366 backplate. Hmm...what are those plastic things, one of them is stuck to the 2011 backplate? I only found three of them...searched the carpet but hit nothing. Fail. Of course ASUS quality control might have had something to do with it, but I guess I just lost it. Fair enough, seems that every plastic ring has actually two of them in one so I got a spare one from there.

Ok while I was working with the mobo I had my 3930K still attached to the mobo. So I stand up from the couch to see better and turn the mobo around while the top socket was uninstalled...I saw something dropping which was the 3930K hitting the floor from approx. 1.5 meters.

So I froze for like 10 seconds and I was like oh fffffuuuu, this just can't happen. Quick look around the CPU, no any marks on it at all! Our wooden floor had a little scratch though, but since I pay rent only, that's OK..

Another careful look at the mobo, no bent pins! I was like yeahhh maybe I should try lottery next. I was still , with no cooler to check if the mobo or CPU was ok, so quickly I went to buy a 20 eur Intel stock cooler.

And here I am today, with 3930K at 4.7 with my H100, my old Dominator GT 1866 CL7s running at 1866 CL9 for starters. *PHEW* Sometimes a break is just good after something is going wrong...still deciding what to do with my old 990X, Rampage III Black edition etc. Btw once you go X, you can't turn back...I'd like a 3960X now.

And one question...I have 3-way SLI and my AX1200 doesn't have any free PCIe cables. The mobo requires one PCIe cable for 4-way SLI/CF, should I use one for 3-way too so I would not burn the ATX connector like on X58?