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I got it for $140 and it is running perfectly at 3.8GHz with 1.4V Vcore 24/7 no issues. Cost was the whole reason as I was out of money at the point it came for the CPU and I was on a strict budget.

You won't get that with a Quad and the 9700 for sure, but there are quite a few water cooling guys getting over 4Ghz with a good Q6600 and even more with the Q9550/Q9650.

Heavily depends on usage, but I would still prefer a Quad over a dual core for a small bit of future-proofing.

I have to agree that there was something wrong with a statement suggesting to run 3 at a time. Any way you look at it, hackers will hack anything and if you go to bad places online with no A/V then you deserve the pain no matter WHAT OS you are using.

"damage control". I wonder who has no job because of this........

Nothing worse than an apple with a worm in it.........

In my opinion, you won't see enough benefit to go from your current system to i7.

60 CFM or so will be more than sufficient for good cooling and sound. Noctua fans are one of my favorites.

Any 120mm fan that is 25mm thick and is running 110CFM will sound like a hovercraft. They will be overly loud. They will also move a helluva lot of air too so there are tradeoffs that you might be OK with.

That Corsair PSU would chew up and spit out your PC with a single 4870, no problem at all.

You can do it that way as long as all your parts are mounted internally. I just use an old external ODD unit to power the pump while the PC is left unplugged during leak testing. You can get water all over PC parts as long as they are completely dry before you attempt to power them up with no...

and that is why you leak test for 24hours before powering up your PC.

I used the following parts: 1. Swiftech Apogee GT: It's been around the block and back, but it is an excellent midrange block. My overclocked E7200 has yet to see over 50C and I bet I could get the temps down alot more if I remounted the block. 2. Thermochill 120.2 dual 120MM rad: Big and...

I would absolutely NOT run a peltier off the motherboard. You will kill the motherboard. Pelts draw far too much current to do their job. The more you overvolt a pelt over 12V the better it will do as well. You need atleast 200W of power and 15V to really get benefits from them.

Front and side are intakes and the top and rear are exhaust.

I still see little or no reason to upgrade to it unless you are a P4/AND S939 holdout that is finally building an all new system.

If you want to know if they can meet the heat loads of current processors, then why would I test with anything BUT a current processor? You just completely contradicted your own argument. As for other sites, they test their own ways, It is up to you as to who you trust and such. We have a...

I haven't had that one in for testing, but by looking at it I would say it would compare to the OCZ Vendetta cooler. That cooler performed OK at stock speeds in my testing, but it did not hold up well at all when overclocking. I would not recommend that cooler for overclocking, especially a Quad.

Kougar, you are probably the only single person on the internet who cares how well anything cools a P4. There is no comparison. Even if, and I mean if, the P4 was hotter, NOONE that runs a $50+ CPU cooler will ever run it on one. People want to see coolers installed on systems that are...