I'm still waiting for my shipments to come back, I should have my reservoir tommorrow (hopefully) and I can then set up my cooler, and let it run to check it out, and the mother board should be here thursday or friday. Once I get the mobo, everything will be ready to go on the mobo for testing...i'm gonna one nervous wreck...I gotta lap the bottom of that block too...kinda rough...DOH. I'm going to do a trouble shooting type thing this time. I'm going to run it "out of the box"...literally no case (sitting on cardboard box no raid, no sound, no nic, one hdd, one cdrom and the vid card and ram stick and cooler. And i'm going to step my way up from there. I'll put it in the mobo tray next, (still out of case) if everything ok, move it to the case, if ok...you get the idea. ;D