what!? 2T PFFFFFT!:haha:
Wow, was that one of your experiments? what voltage was being run through those poor things?

I have to wonder how much of what we pay for this stuff is the exorbitant return rates. Gary at Micro center here told me that he gets CPU's returned (or at least attempted all the time. The failure rate of CPU's these days is slim to none...and as you say...slim left town.

~ 2.5-2.6v I would expect. Nvidia chipset board so no memory divider- endless tweaking opportunities.
Relax the timings out, and keep the voltage close to normal spec and viola...DDR2-1400 . (board is a Giga P45-UD3)

I haven't personally run across any FC-LGA Intel CPU that arrived DOA, or failed in any stock/"normal" OC setting. I've replaced a couple of X6800's that were run on the ragged edge (4+GHz 24/7 no C1E, no EIST) for around 3 years, and a friend of mine got a suspect Q6xxx (6700 I think) back in the day, but since his board was flaky from the start (MSI go figure) I wouldn't be 100% sure of blaming the CPU. Except for a couple of eBay bent-pin jobs, the AMD CPU's I've had/fitted have been problem free as well.

Final build i went with was

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz
Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler

In the end i scrapped the Sabertooth idea because of the Thermal Shield, it needed a top down cooler and the Thermal Armour gets some bad reviews. Supposedly it traps heat rather than disapate it. Hope i dont lose my side mounted fan on my Antec 900 because i need to acomadate thie AKasa cooler but i can allways mount it on the outside of the case.

nice, did you choose a GPU yet?

You might be able to have your side fan and eat it too, so long as you're willing to pay the price.

The Cooler Master HAF 922: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119197 (Mid tower), is inordinately wide. In fact, it's actually wider than a "HAF X".

Haven't researched how much distance would be between the motherboard, ( when mounted and where the bottom of a side fan(s), would be. Perhaps a more ambitious soul than myself would care to look into that.

I just thought I'd stir this case offering into the mix, to keep the cooler clearance discussion going.

Me? I have an Antec 900 also, but am less disposed of needing such extravagant cooling solutions.

The 922 has just shy of 8.0" inches from MB to side panel. You could get any cooler on the market in 922 height wise
The 932 is an inch less in width and I have a Silver Arrow in there with the 230mm x 30mm fan on the inside panel. ( the 932 is only $150 right now)

Fine...don't come crying when that IGP overheats!:wave:

922 looks like it uses tin instead of steel. Ever notice it does't look coated like the 912 or 932? I like the 912 better, it also doesnt have the power button on the top. I'd end up hitting it or someone would im sure.

i know its steel it just looks kinda cheap compared to the other HAF, wonder why they did that?

Pretty sure you will lose the side fan. I just measured on mine and it looks like you will hit the top corner.

Who knows, The whole HAF9xxx line is sort of an odd animal. I have the 932 and the interior layout and flow are great....but it looks like it can't decide on what it wants to be. Kind of an industrial- military- meets Frank Lloyd wright affair :haha:

See, this is where I don't understand why Newegg calls the people that do reviews their, "experts". It seems pretty ballsey to run an ad campaign around a bunch of imbeciles who find attaching an Intel HSF an insurmountable task.

As far as my personal confessional goes, I've never receives a DOA computer part, period. Anything that's been broken, I've broken it.

Yeah well, in your case, it appears that fairly soon, you may run out of brands not to buy. And then it's back to the abacus. To the upside, they don't require coolers or pictures of balls, so maybe we can all get some relief.

Sadly its true. After the massive 7-8 series failure I'd like to do the same with nVidia but I run Linux and its just not worth it to run AMD. But after chatting here I think I may give Giga a shot again. Going to get the Z68 UD5 and give it a go. I haven't used any but the low end Z68 Gigabyte boards yet.

You mean like, "Frank Lloyd Reich---stag"....? :haha: :rolleyes:

And now for your viewing pleasure...
The Asus DCII GTX 560 Ti.....The Asus marketplace competitor to the Gigabyte offering. Crank up the OC with Smart Doctor !....think "Smart Doctor" is holding you back?, well there's always "GPU Tweak".....still not enough OC! Bring on Afterburner !
Of course, what's a 20+% overclock without benches against a stock clocked competitior (the overpriced stiff being the 2GB 6950 in this case rather than the much cheaper-and similarly performing- 1GB version).
Wow! Max OC Asus card beats stock non-Asus offering and gains the (possibly) coveted [H] Gold Award- I'm shocked and stunned !

At this point in time, I'm expecting Kyle's BD review to look something like this:

FX-8150 + Asus Crossfire V Extreme + Asus HD 6970 DCII (CFX) versus Intel PIII 800 + Intel 815 board w/ integrated graphics