...+ FX8320+2x4gb Tactical Ballistix+Kingston KC300 60gb SSD+Seagate Barracuda SATA III 500gb 7200 hd etc.
In case anyone's interested,
...after taking my time to build them into Antec Solo case, so as to route all cables tidily, making sure none were under strain etc.,
the time came to prod the power button, which I did, ...nothing ...no response !
Quickly pulled it all apart and during problem finding, Antec PSU tester "fault" LED came on. Located problem to where a 4pin Molex split off to two small 4 pin connectors, (floppy drive type), ...off to two 90mm case front fans - somehow another Molex was involved and feeding power back to psu, I think ! Quickly double checked all was going to where it should, (ended up with a surplus power splitter - male Molex to 2 small 4 pin plugs !)
So now all is lovely. Tactical Ballistix's SPD chip 1866 XMS timings were not properly set on automatic, had to do half of them myself. Wading through tRC, tRAS etc. references to match them up with some of the silly Labels in Asus's bios memory timings.
Then I noticed that cpu temp. was averaging 38-53degs.C
so Arctic Freezer 7 Pro seemed not up to the job.
Put a new Arctic Freezer 13 on it when it arrived, (not the Pro version with the tiddly little extra fan on the base), and got a rather drastic 10-12degs.C reduction.
HWmonitor logged, (over an hour making it do some hard work), 22-38 degs.C. and CPU fan never went over minimum duty cycle, 60% I think it's set to. Perhaps the pre-applied MX2 thermal paste and/or the extra heatpipes helped. Didn't spot that the pre-applied thermal paste was MX2 till after I'd ordered a 30g tube of >3.5 WmWhateever it's called...(thermal conductivity rating) !!!
I bought the Arctic Freezer 13 after several hours wading through HUGE cooler reviews,
and even Frostytech's review of Freezer 13 Pro didn't convey to me well it would perform. In other words I was not tempted to spend tons of money for a 1 or 2 degree improvement over an already pretty good cooler !!
So now I've got all lovely white Arctic PWM fans, 120mm case rear fan, 2 x 90mm case front blowing over hard disk trays.
The twinkly green LED's that zoom back and forth along the top of the memory modules are very pretty, (wasn't expecting that), though that seems a little redundant inside a case without a see-through side panel !!!
The cpu seems to briefly step itself up to 4ghz now and again, so here's hoping it won't fry itself !
regards, Richard