Last update for today. I struggled with the Thermalright 775 bolt through kit for about 2 hours untill I just gave up on it. The skrews just wouldn't reach and it wasn't for the lack of trying. I just pieced back together the push pins and snapped them in np and they were tight as a drum. One observation about the fan included with the Vendetta 2 is that its very quiet indeed but really dosn't push much air at all. I was parusing the bios for an hour and reading the mobo manual and the fan cranked up to about 1450rpm and the air comming out the other side of the Vendetta was barely noticable. I'll be stressing the system more tomorrow once I get an OS on it but I suspect I'll be exchanging the Vendetta's fan for a Noctua NF-P12.
As for the Palit 4850 I think it's possesed. It cranks up full throttle at the strangest times, On boot up, on entering bios, and just about anytime it wants to it just has a hissy and goes full out...and its very loud. Scratch that, it's abnoxiously loud. Heh maybe once I get into Windows and have a driver and better fan control it'll be better but I kid you not the fan can wake the dead at full rpm.
Some boring picts of my bargain parts going together, wish I had better bling to show everyone
Very soft lcd screen cloth and alcohol to wipe CPU and HS down.
Turned out to be a good idea, but now look at my new monitor cloth!
Maybe a tad to much TIM?
Locked down HS and ran for 1 hr. Looks OK to me
Huston we have Bios. It's 28C ambient so temp look ok for 1hr idle. (fireplace on)
What a mess to clean up in the morning. Bleh
Hope my picts don't suck to bad I'm using a cheap'o Kodak Easy share M753 but its way better than my cell phone
