Followup:
Took me a while to get good info because of other issues, but this was the end result.
Highest I got that I bothered to notice was 93C with some crap running in the background while playing WH40KoW2 on "Ultra" setting and 91C running CoD:WaW at whatever setting the game is barely stable at (seriously... F* that game for being the buggiest pos I've bought in a long time)
These temps were with case-closed, all air cooled, basic Apevia fans that came with the case +2 dynex PoS fans I had laying around. My cpu is using the stock cooler as well and I have had no problems whatsoever with heat, it in fact feels actually cool to the touch. I'm impressed with the heat management, though I'm sure it helps that the case actually has a vented area right next to the ever-so-warm heatpipes on the side of the card
I have a couple of questions that are only barely related, if anyone knows the answer, please let me know, I've been away from system building for 4 almost 5 years and feel like a noob putting this thing together
1) I'm running vista ultimate 32 (I want 64, but I'm waiting on 7 at this point, or to have 64 fall in my lap, cause I got 32 legally for essentially free) it sees my computer as having 3325gb ram. I expected it not to see the full 4gb correctly, but I'm a bit puzzled. Windows live showed it as being 4.00gb ... so not sure whether it's being utilized correctly and only displaying incorrectly, or what.
2) the motherboard doesn't see the ram as it's correct speed (1600) or automatically get it's timing correct. This doesn't worry me too much as I can manually set them. I manually set it to 1600, 1.8v and 8-8-8-24 timing and it worked mostly OK, though not nearly as stable as I wanted. I got it stable by reducing it 1333, but still have the occasional crashes that may or may not be the games and not the memory. I don't know what I should to make it work with the ram at the correct (higher) speed. My bios is up to date, and as of yet, everythings been set with the auto settings except the ram. Under the ram configuration section, after the normal timings of 8 8 8 24, there's a whole string of numbers that I don't recognize, but all are adjustable. Where's a good reference to learn what these are and if they matter to me?
3) What's a good program to use to test the memory itself to make sure it's not just an issue with a bad DIMM? I couldn't get Memtest to work.