[QUOTE="Silencer781"]

I just finished putting this baby together today. And my room is a giant mess. lawl

• Vista 64bit
• Antec 1200 case
• XFX 780i Tri Sli
• Q6600 OC'd to 3.4
• Tuniq Tower 120 heatsink
• 4gb OCZ Reaper DDR2 1066
• XFX GTX 260 (just started to test the waters on GPU OC'ing so this is a minor tweak @ 586/1252/1009)
• Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality
• Tagan BZ Series 800w PSU
• WD Caviar 500gb HDD (had two of these to setup raid but one died on me) :cry:
• Asus 20x DVD burner
• 19" Samsung Syncmaster LCD
• Saitek Eclipse keyboard
• Logitech G5 mouse
• Logitech Z-4 2.1 speaker

Petermannc31

It doesn't matter how dirty your room is cuz the cleanness(new word lol) of your build makes up for it.:) I hate when people leave all the wires and crap hanging, it just show laziness and a lack of passion in my mind.

Hehe. Thanks for the compliment.:oops: I thought I could do a little better myself with the cable management. But I would have to drill a few extra holes by the optical drive cages to get it to my liking. I just don't have the right tools to do that.:(

well i think the airflow in my case is good, there just must be a problem with the heatsink on the cpu. Ive already taken it off like 5 times because when i first built my comp it wasn't on right and was at 100c. then i got it on and it seemed fine but mabye its still not on right.cole_793

Applying the thermal compound is also a big factor in installing the heatsink. If you've taken it off that many times then I'm sure the compound is uneven. You would need to clean it and reapply. Just invest some money into an aftermarket heatsink. It'll be well worth it.

[QUOTE="Silencer781"]Maybe it's just the crappy stock heatsink. I have my q6600 oc'd to 3.4 and my idle temperature is at 38. On high load it will reach 62 max.cole_793

Nope, I have a Tuniq Tower 120 heatsink. But my case has a crapload of airflow too with 5 intake fans and 3 exhaust fans.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835154002

I just finished putting this baby together today. And my room is a giant mess. lawl

• Vista 64bit
• Antec 1200 case
• XFX 780i Tri Sli
• Q6600 OC'd to 3.4
• Tuniq Tower 120 heatsink
• 4gb OCZ Reaper DDR2 1066
• XFX GTX 260
• Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality
• Tagan BZ Series 800w PSU
• 2x WD Caviar 500gb HDD in RAID0
• Asus 20x DVD burner
• 19" Samsung Syncmaster LCD
• Saitek Eclipse keyboard
• Logitech G5 mouse
• Logitech Z-4 2.1 speakers

...and a few games to tide me over while I was bench testing. :D

Benchmarks:

3DMark06: 15320

Update: Put in another GTX 260 for SLI.

3DMark06: 17573

I just finished putting this baby together today. And my room is a giant mess. lawl

• Vista 64bit
• Antec 1200 case
• XFX 780i Tri Sli
• Q6600 OC'd to 3.4
• Tuniq Tower 120 heatsink
• 4gb OCZ Reaper DDR2 1066
• XFX GTX 260
• Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality
• Tagan BZ Series 800w PSU
• WD 500gb HDD (had two of these to setup raid but one died on me) :cry:
• Asus 20x DVD burner
• 19" Samsung Syncmaster LCD
• Saitek Eclipse keyboard
• Logitech G5 mouse
• Logitech Z-4 2.1 speakers

...and a few games to tide me over while I was bench testing. :D

I forgot to mention that but I did install the raid drivers. Anyways, I figured out what was wrong. One of the drives were bad. My bios can't even detect it anymore. And I was able to install Vista on the other one without a hitch. I really want a raid setup so I'm going to RMA the other drive and have to start all over again. :(

Thanks to everyone for trying to help. I appreciate it.