Hello Hello, thank you for all your help. I have been reading your post and it has helped and encouraged me to build a stable cool and graphics that make a ps3 uneasy! Thanks for answering all my noob and difficult answers too. I have running now...
x64 Vista (yeah its a pain but i love it)
Asus striker extreme (again, but i got it to work rather quickly)
Intel Q6600 G0
2x 8800 GTS 512 Asus... better fps than i expected, but i have only tried on UT3, set to the mac settings and did not touch it
4 gigs of corsair dominators 1066mhz
Western digital HDD
850W thermaltake psu... hopefully that will be enough, works fine so far
took about 8 hours
had some trouble with the case and motherboard.
Questions:
1. My cpu (Q6600 2.4ghz) was running at 81'C on the stock cooler... the cooler from touch did not feel warm, certainly not (183'F). One pin looks darker, somewhat noticably... shoudl i be concerned? It had been running with a new cooler and the correct thermal paste for a while now at 40'C - 50'C. I have a bunch of fans in the case 3x120mm and a big one.
2. I have the Asus striker extreme, trying to put the 2 gpus... which ran fine with the stock cooler, but the cooler that works is very heavy... should I be worried about the board atm? (currently on it's side) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835887002 zhalman BTF90 (works good had to bend the fins to get it in though! ) the motherboard currently only has 4 screws in it... not sure if this is what asus intended or what. only 4 long screws and 4 washers to lift the board up... worried about this presently. Will it be ok on its side i have been checking the temp with Everest and my hand 
3. Random, seen some posts to get a linksys WMP54G 4.1 working on vista... idk too much the card is kinda busted from an accident... anyone gotten these to work tried installing the ralink or whatever RT2500 did not work though. I am not a huge fan of wireless
4. Haven't researched this much but if you see a good site for air cooling and overclocking a GTS 8800 512 lemme know
x64 Vista (yeah its a pain but i love it)
Asus striker extreme (again, but i got it to work rather quickly)
Intel Q6600 G0
2x 8800 GTS 512 Asus... better fps than i expected, but i have only tried on UT3, set to the mac settings and did not touch it
4 gigs of corsair dominators 1066mhz
Western digital HDD
850W thermaltake psu... hopefully that will be enough, works fine so far
took about 8 hours
had some trouble with the case and motherboard.Questions:
1. My cpu (Q6600 2.4ghz) was running at 81'C on the stock cooler... the cooler from touch did not feel warm, certainly not (183'F). One pin looks darker, somewhat noticably... shoudl i be concerned? It had been running with a new cooler and the correct thermal paste for a while now at 40'C - 50'C. I have a bunch of fans in the case 3x120mm and a big one.
2. I have the Asus striker extreme, trying to put the 2 gpus... which ran fine with the stock cooler, but the cooler that works
is very heavy... should I be worried about the board atm? (currently on it's side) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835887002 zhalman BTF90 (works good had to bend the fins to get it in though! ) the motherboard currently only has 4 screws in it... not sure if this is what asus intended or what. only 4 long screws and 4 washers to lift the board up... worried about this presently. Will it be ok on its side i have been checking the temp with Everest and my hand 3. Random, seen some posts to get a linksys WMP54G 4.1 working on vista... idk too much the card is kinda busted from an accident... anyone gotten these to work tried installing the ralink or whatever RT2500 did not work though. I am not a huge fan of wireless
4. Haven't researched this much but if you see a good site for air cooling and overclocking a GTS 8800 512 lemme know
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