Thanks guys!
Well this is hardly my first time building a PC! This is my first attempt at a
water-cooled PC! AND my first attempt at a "showcase" PC. I've never even had a PC with a window before, let alone 100% window!
But I knew I just couldn't cover up all that beautiful water cooling stuff! I started out looking for cases with big windows, and went a little overboard...
This forum is a GREAT resourse for anyone interested in "taking the plunge" into water cooling. Reading your posts gave me the courage to try it myself. But I had to do something, I was getting great overclocks, but I couldn't hear myself think over the fans!
As for overclocking ASUS boards, I'm getting ~700MHz overclock with this 2100+, NO volt mods needed. I'll be putting a Barton in her over the next couple of weeks. I've been using ASUS boards for the last 5 or 6 PC's. I'm used to them, I know their quirks. I considered going with the ABit for this rig, but when the rev 2 A7N8X started getting such rave reviews I stuck with ASUS. Besides my rev 1.04 A7N8X is still running like a top!
I've always put the best parts I could afford in my rigs. With special empasyis on the memory & power supply. I was told by a wise system builder many years ago that there are two things that kill stability in home built PC's; "cheap RAM & weak power supplies". Heeding that sage advice I've had pretty good luck with most of the rigs I've built.
BTW, that 700MHz overclock is at 31C as we speak!
Again thanks for the kind words and your informative posts/articles,
--Pete