zlojack

Hmmm....

Decent DDR3 for $250 or so? I was looking at these G.Skill though I am more of a fan of Mushkin and Corsair (from my experience).

I'm pretty sure all my current waterblocks would fit nicely on this board. (EK Mosfet, NB, SB and D-Tek Fuzion).

Arrghh...I hate the temptation...

What are you going to do with Nehalem, Robilar? Skip it?

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Mmansueto

Are you joking? he will have this rig for 1 month, tops. Any one care to make a wager with me?

I have always liked GSkill, and the OCZ's I have now are really nice, but i seemed to always have to RMA OCZ ram. The maximus Extreme has a nasty habit of overvolting the ram by .5v, and i think that fried one set of them.

Here is the pair of OCZ ram i have. $220 after rebate.

Ghostleader

Nice Robilar, I gonna subscribe on this thread

That NB block must be rather new because I can´t find it on Swiftech homepage, do you know where I can find it?

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zlojack

LOL...yeah, it does seem like he upgrades a lot.

Well, Robilar, if you get the itch to get rid of this board, I'm local and I pay cash

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Robilar

I ended up ordering OCZ because the only way to get Gskill is to order from NCIX or Infonec (and infonec takes two weeks to get it in).

I may skip Nehalem or I may upgrade again.

I'm having lots of fun with the E8600 though so it may be a month or two before this board is for sale here

Robilar

I PM'd the guy at XS that has it on his board. Once he posts back, I'll put it in this thread. I'm going to measure the thread holes to see if all other NB blocks will fit as well

Ghostleader

Thanks, can´t wait.

Which OCZ did you put your money on?

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Why is that I keep hearing from a few friends how OCZ memory is generally of a lower quality than other memory brands ?

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Robilar

Not sure. I've had some good sets. No defects yet.


I ordered OCZ Gold Series DDR3 2x2 GB 1600mhz. Should be fine for this setup.

Robilar

This board needs some serious prepping before use.

Cleaning off the nb and sb (two sides for the nb) of whatever mystery crap they used took me over an hour.

attempting to get the backplate on my TRUE to be high enough to miss the chip on the back of the board was a failure. I'd either have to order the Xigmatek backplate (4 days to wait) or hack a hole in the centre of my TRUE backplate.


So I drilled multiple holes in the "steel" backplate, bent metal out with pliers and now I'm in the process of filing a smooth rectangle.

Guess its just as well I don't have the ram until tomorrow...