I ordered my parts on Monday, and UPS delivered them today (Wed.) thanks to Newegg's speedy shipping Assembly was painless, however upon powering up my new system it would only stay on for a few seconds before powering down. I determined my new PSU was to blame, Corsair let me down I swapped PSU's and boot/install of Windows 7 was quick and painless.
Here's my pile-o-parts:
The monster Sunbeam CCTF cooler installed easily:
As you can see, one ram slot is blocked due to the cooler size and the height of the OCZ reaper memory.
Everything in the case before I realized the Corsair PSU was bad. Thankfully I didn't get too crazy with wire management since I had to swap PSU's:
The first thing I did was get my Windows experience score before attempting to OC:
I decided to try the AMD overdrive utility, it seems to work pretty good. Getting to 3.2 ghz was pretty easy. Upon bumping the multi to 16.5 things got a bit unstable. A slight voltage increase fixed that and I was able to increase the multi to 17. I'm currently sitting at 3.4 ghz with everything running cool and stable. I think I have a lot more headroom with this CPU. I think I can hit at least 3.6, maybe 3.8 with this cooler. Needless to say I am quite pleased
Here's my pile-o-parts:
The monster Sunbeam CCTF cooler installed easily:
As you can see, one ram slot is blocked due to the cooler size and the height of the OCZ reaper memory.
Everything in the case before I realized the Corsair PSU was bad. Thankfully I didn't get too crazy with wire management since I had to swap PSU's:
The first thing I did was get my Windows experience score before attempting to OC:
I decided to try the AMD overdrive utility, it seems to work pretty good. Getting to 3.2 ghz was pretty easy. Upon bumping the multi to 16.5 things got a bit unstable. A slight voltage increase fixed that and I was able to increase the multi to 17. I'm currently sitting at 3.4 ghz with everything running cool and stable. I think I have a lot more headroom with this CPU. I think I can hit at least 3.6, maybe 3.8 with this cooler. Needless to say I am quite pleased