Hey, cool man. Thanks for the pics and all too. I'm getting my memory and CPU tomorrow finally. I have everything else. But I can't do much without those two! Haha. Well, thanks man. I'm hopin' mine will be as smooth as yours. Hey, one question though. Is that static free material that you laid out or something? If it is, where did you pick that up?
the static free material was what the mobo came in, i just laid it down to work on... same with the static free bag for the RAM etc. The 650i installation was great, and I had no problems. I'll make some recommendations for you:
#1: install your RAM in the black slots (I'm assuming your dropping in two sticks). You can put them in the yellow slots, but by putting them in the black slots they will be farther away from the NB heatsink.
#2: Right when you get into the BIOS, set your RAM timings to the factory specs and 2T first. Also, for my RAM, the factory spec voltage was 2.2v. I initially chose the voltage option right below 2.2v, but since then have used the 2.25v (I think) option.
Any more questions during your build I'll answer them here