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I built my last system in Nov 2006 and its been a great rig.
I guess many here remember well the launch of Intel's Conroe CPUs.
Along with many others I bought an E6600 and turned up the volume to 3GHz +
Its run at 3.2GHz or better since day one and retires with honors.
So,time for a new platform,here's what I bought:

Its installed in this case:
... a CM Storm/Scout by Coolermaster and is pretty impressive.
It has a carrying handle on top that is surprising useful and has plenty of features.
Here's a link to the case,fortunately the LEDs have an "off" switch
http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product ... ct_id=2912

Idle temps with the Corsair H50 are around 27C and max out when gaming at 56C.
Its very quiet and installed pretty easily.
At stock CPU frequency I'm getting Super Pi 1M times of...12.2sec or so compared with my Conroe at 3.8Ghz which did low 14s.
It's much much faster running the desktop functions with apps really snapping open fast and seems well worth the upgrade so far.
I gotta say...its bliss having a quiet case at last.

ps This Dominator RAM looks like it was created by the Borg.

You gonna show us some pics of your completed project? What did you turn your E6600 into?

Gratz on the new system, probably feel a pretty big difference.

The E6600 goes to my Dad,his old AMD single core is well past retirement date.
Here's some pics..

What are you using to show CPU temps?

I'm using Real Temp.

Cranked it up yet? Please report back.

Do you have the H50 fan blowing in or out?

And yeah, get some oc'ing going. I'd like to see temps w/ HT enabled, esecially with a vcore increase oc.

Do you have the H50 fan blowing in or out?

There's quite a variety of opinions on the Corsair forum regarding fan placement.
Most agree dual fans,one either side of the radiator in a suck/blow setup is the strongest.
Right now however, I have it drawing in air from outside the case....I'll see how that works out for a while and maybe play around with different setups as it gets into summer here.
The 4 vertically placed USB front ports are a very good idea,it makes USB cables with fat connectors a lot easier to plug in compared with the usual, one on top of another stack which can be tricky with the large plastic fittings some cables use.
Cable management chassis cut outs and tool free snap in drive bays are very nice also.

I'd like to see temps w/ HT enabled, esecially with a vcore increase oc.

Most overclockers disable HT when OCing manually so I probably will too...

Fighterpilot wrote:

Most overclockers disable HT when OCing manually so I probably will too...

So you're buying for peen and not speed?

umm...wut
This rig was built to have a fast computer...I already have a large P

Flying Fox wrote:

Cranked it up yet? Please report back.

First overclocking attempt.


A 10 second Super Pi 1M ....never thought I'd see the day

Idle temps are around 42c now and approx 62C at full load.
*note: Hyperthreading was left [ Enabled ] *

Fighterpilot wrote:

umm...wut
This rig was built to have a fast computer...I already have a large P

Hmm I'm certain I replied to this a day ago...

Anyhow, I would say that buying the i7-860 and turning off HT for anything other than 'what max oc can I get' fun is pointless - might as well have gotten an i5-750 because that's what you get without HT.

Well thank God you did,a post without trying to somehow diminish my satisfaction with the CPU I bought would be out of character to say the least...

My my, touchy. I didn't mean it to hurt your warm feelings about a consumer purchase but it's hard to argue that running 24/7 without HT on the CPU is terribly different from using an i5-750 (not accounting for whatever the stock clockspeed/turboboost speed difference may be...cba looking it up.) You paid for HT, use it!

note: Hyperthreading was left [ Enabled ] *

Reading fail?

It would be except my post was originally (not) made after your 26 June 21:57 post (that was the post I replied to) and before the next one, so the evening of June 30, and at that point the last info was 'Most overclockers disable HT when OCing manually so I probably will too...'

I did indeed miss that you left it enabled, and I stand by my statement that not doing so would be silly