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I finished my build also. All I can say is wow. To be honest I don't need to overclock this system yet. My last build was a 2.4ghz P4 on a Asus P4T533 mobo with only 512 rambus ram. The GPU was a Leadtek Ti486 Geforce card. It was a smokin system even with the low amount of ram when I built...

I hope I don't run into this HD transfer problem. I got a lot of gigs I need to transfer from my current IDE HD to the new one I plan to do a fresh OS install on. I also plan to buy two 160GB SATA drives for a RAID 0 array for games only. I can't wait till Thursday to build this beast.

How much of a PITA is taking off the NB heatsink. I was planing to put a NB waterblock on mine. If the NB is easily damaged by heatsink removal, I may have to rethink my cooling strategy.

It sounds like this board would work well with liquid cooling. I got to order a kit. I'm taking everyones advice and doing a fresh OS install. I'll just buy another HD, and a new XP disk. I would feel like a ass telling MS support someone installed my XP on another computer, and changed the...

That's what I figured. Hopefully MS won't tell me to go pound sand if I need a new CD key. I'll probably try to see if it will boot with HD swap. I'll let you guys know what happens. I should have all the parts by next Thursday. Thanx...........

Hi everyone, I'm new around here. I'm doing a new build with this board. My parts are on the Fedex truck as I type this. I have a off topic question. Are most of you guys doing a fresh install of your OS. A friend of mine installed my XP on his computer with out my permission. He went as...