Well The Collection of Parts Begins (The Collecting is DONE)

[TheSilentAssassin]

Can't wait to see the final result!!

[WalkinTarget]

Its been five hours and we haven't hear or seen a peep !!!

TTIWWP !!!!!

[pigworthy]

Been really busy helping my son fix his car. I'll try to get to some of it tonight. Probably mostly Sat. or Sunday. Believe me, I'm dying too......

[WalkinTarget]

LoL, take your time, pigster. I hadda give you grief, and I hope you don't return the favor down the road. I'm busy testing out a supposedly 'dead' board on my workbench that I bought for $20 tonight .. and damn, it IS dead !!!

I hate finding that out, but I rolled the dice on the buy.

[juneau]

This seems very familiar to my build a few weeks ago. I was itching to just get on with it but things kept getting in the way.

Don't forget to download the up to date intel and realtek drivers beforehand.

[pigworthy]

New E8400 45nm CPU Installed


Reminder: Take Thermal Compound Application Class


Install Cooling Tower, Dang that thing is BIG.


Put motherboard and assembly into it's new home:




More to come tomorrow.....
Time for bed........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....................

[TheSilentAssassin]

GEEZ Is that CPU cooler big enough?

Looks great!!

[baller4life2468]

I agree. HuUGE!

Looks good.

Baller

[Duke{CLR}]

Very nice Pigworthy.

[Dead_And_Gone]

Well, If you've seen the Zalmar CPU coolers, it isn't all that different in size. Just looks like Pig's cooler is passive rather than a built in fan.


Enough cooling in the case, and it won't be a problem.

Good looking Pig.

[pigworthy]

There is a 120mm fan right down the middle of the cooler. The fan is attached to the the black top.

Wanted great cooling, because I plan to OC this thing, hopefully upto 4.0GHZ.

[Duke{CLR}]

If that coooler wont do it then I guess you would need some H2O option. There is some serious surface area on the bad boy.

[imlittlev]

I'd be scared that it would warp the motherboard with all that weight!

i thought my cooler was huge!

[juneau]

Looking good so far Pigworthy. The height of that cooler looks identical to the width of your case. How much clearance do you have? 1/2"?

[drunken_chef]

that was about 4Xs the AS that you need pig. if you're HSF and CPU make good contact it's squirting out the sides.