Alright, I'm getting severely po'd at this ASUS EAH4890. When I got it, I could OC to 975/1150 @ 1.45V with no problems and I ran Furmark for 1 hour. NOW I'm at 900/1050 @ 1.35V because about every 2 weeks I lose my OC due to severe artifacting. I don't think I'll EVER purchase a ASUS graphics card again and IMO they are complete garbage. I've had it 3 months and the first 3 weeks were awesome, now I fear that by the end of September all it will be able to run are stock speeds and by the end...

Well I've got the Panaflo installed and I think my top exhaust fans might be "short circuiting" the air flow through my Megahalems somehow. I'm going to pickup some aluminum ducting tape today and try closing off the sides of the heatsink. Then I'm going to take a serious look at fabricating a duct to direct most of the air from the Megahalems toward the rear exhaust.

Oh yeah, while I was at it, I moved my EAH4890 to the bottom most PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot. Talk about a pain...

I took the plunge and got a Panaflo FBA12G12H1BX 120x38mm 104cfm 41dB fan to replace the Scythe Slipstream 110cfm 37dB fan for my Megahalems. I'm just not getting the cooling I was hoping for with the Slipstream, the static pressure isn't even 1mmH2O. Sure it moves lots of air but without any pressure.

I also ordered a 38mm fan clip and a 12" 3-pin extension cable. The first, since I've gotta hold the fan to the heatsink somehow and the second so I can finally make my case...

Wow, I found a review on SilenX fans and found out that my 120x38mm, 90cfm fans only push approximately 34cfm . That sucks hard since they don't even put out a lot of static pressure. Dude, I am madder than a wet hen in the middle of a rain storm . I feel like I flushed nearly $90 down the toilet. The noise doesn't bother me so much as the lack of cfm.

Live and learn, this is my first full on build in nearly 6 or 7 years. The last build I did was because of deceptive...

Well my order from SVC.com arrived yesterday afternoon around 2:30pm. Did the teardown and couldn't believe what I found, nearly 3cm of my cpu was completely uncovered!!! No wonder my temperatures started to take off, still didn't make a difference ultimately. Having reseated my Xiggy 3 previous times (correctly mind you ), I was still getting 41C idle with ambient at ~26C. Now I'm getting around 36-38C (there's some bouncing, meh) and I'm much happier. I'll look into another Scythe...