I put the whole thing together yesterday and it ran flawlessly first try. That's saying a lot for me, since I would usually have at least one of the panel connections backwards.
I haven't pushed it yet, but did take the E6600 to 3 Ghz without any voltage changes to the CPU. I noticed in CPU-Z that the processor speed keeps fluctuating, so there must be some kind of power save thing enabled. I'll have to dig through the bios when I get home from work .
I'm using the antec ninehundred case...and I'm a bit concerned that the side of the case won't go back on with the thermalright ultra 120 Extreme mounted on the CPU. I haven't tried yet, but it looks pretty iffy.
I do have a question for you all. Do you think I should be pulling air away from the heat sink or pushing air through it? Remember, this is a side mounted fan. Thanks.