[dsio]

The overclocking tools in BIOS are immense, haven't gotten to figure out what they all do yet, but I've never seen options this detailed.

Board is solid, layout is nice, all solid caps, good clearances, only complaints so far are that there's only one PATA port, and that its in a bad position. I really like Award bios too, never liked the ASUS AMI bioses.

The Corsair power supply, top notch, couldn't be happier.

The 8800GT, well what can I say, its 90% as good as the 8800GTS-512, 40% less price, and at $249 AU, its crazy good value.

The CPU so far has peaked at 3.45Ghz. Not bad for a peace of junk. It completely pwns my Athlon64 3200+.

btw for those of you that are curious as to what its like doing a major hardware upgrade like this (new GPU, new motherboard with new chipset etc) on a linux box, all you do is turn it on, and it works. First boot, everything came back up, including the nvidia drivers.

As for the watercooling... the backplate from the WC kit never stuck very will with the felt pad thermaltake supplied, so we used some... marine epoxy. This was on the Athlon 64 motherboard. So... the backplate is stuck. If I chiseled away the PCB, it would still not come off.

Solution: used a sheet of marine plywood, cut to a square with a couple of washers on the drilled out holes. Perfect fit. And now i get to tell people there's plywood in my computer.

Here's a little screenshot.