The time has come for a new system build.

There ya go, thats my next cooler. Thanks nibs, I like that one better.
I'll have to use the stock cooler for awhile though.

Side note:
They can shove that rebate where the sun don't shine. Rebates need to be a thing of the past.

I don't like rebates either, all they are is basically a marketing tool and that's it.

Just reduce the price of the product to the rebate's price and go from there. Plus the manufacturers wouldn't have to hire a rebate fulfillment company to screw everything up!

Actually a rebate gives the company money to play with. They can take that, for example $15 along with thousands of other customers money and place it in a high yield fund for 90 days and earn money on it so in the end when they send you a check maybe instead of being out the $15 it really only cost them $14. If they didn't have your money they wouldn't have the excess capital to do that (or perhaps your extra capital added to theirs puts them in for a higher return percentage).

Well, and a large number of people don't even get around to sending in the rebates to begin with...

That looks like a sweet build Cooley! I hope ya enjoy it!

How far were you thinking of overclocking the processor? I think a 3.6GHz OC they used in that review is pretty weak, considering they are testing some of the best coolers out there. SB chips can clock to 4.5 to 5Ghz on air, so I'd make sure the H60 can handle the heat load as well as the H80. And I've not seen anything that can match the Noctua DH-14's acoustics at its performance level, that review they maxed out the fans and didn't factor in noise at all.

c_c
Just as a reference, I'm running stable (and cool with a Zalman http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118059 air cooler) at 4.2Ghz.
I'd love to take it higher but can't keep it stable. Then I know nothing of OC'ing and adjusting voltage and ram timings etc. Better to be stable and folding than di---ng around and breaking something.

Until you get the cooler you should feel good at 3.8 and complete -bigadv without problems. Or just set the AC to max.

I'm up and running

Now to get this thing fine tunned.

Check the CPU-Z link in my sig.

Congratz Clifford.

What are your core temps @ 3.6? Are you going to fold a regular smp-2 unit to see how it goes? Did you get any sleep last night?

Nice One Cliff! Now it's time to change your computer specs in your Avatar box!

Yodap, I'm not sure what kind of homework you did when looking for a CPU cooler. I'm finding the cooler that you purchased hard to beat in price/performance/noise. It's not far behind the Noctua NH-D14 for less than half the price. It would seem that better performance would come at twice the price or noisier fans.

EVGA Superclock CPU Cooler Review

I had seen that page when I was looking but didn't make my decision from it.
On the advice of someone else I ordered the Hyper 212 only to get an email that it was out of stock. I scrambled to find this one at about the same price. Price being the most important factor at the time. It has exceeded my expectations and I'm very happy with it. But it is big and I have 1 fan in the push set up and it blocks my first ram slot. Not a big deal for this rig.