Barfnargle

I think that everyone has the right to be happy, whether that means to be with a person of the same gender, or eating a cookie :p

Wow, looks really nice :). I like the way the Noctuas' outline shows through the fan grill too for some odd reason

Looks great, and portable! I would really look into doing a water-cooled build in there sometime in the future. It would look epic!

It's starting to look pretty awesome!

Wow, those couple of parts really made your system look much nicer. Great job :)

This is looking soo goood.

Lookin' good!

Nice, looks great! :)

Awesome! :)

Welp it looks like I've dun goofed! Time for an exchange!

I bought it originally because I was $20 short of the 4670k when it came out (it was $249.99), and I couldn't get myself to wait another two weeks for more money. I figured I could use the coupon TigerDirect sent me and get the 4570 for $200 and be happy with it. What I wanted to do is buy myself some nice parts to last me at least 4 years, but I'm worried the 4570 may not allow me to do that well because I have no over clocking potential with it. Should I send it back and get a 4670k or will the 4570 suffice? I mainly want the CPU to keep up with video cards and games in the future without a significant bottleneck. Thanks!

So many awesome giveaways! Thanks! Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/benjachap My retweet: http://i.imgur.com/Ry7Sf78.png

Go Tim! F*ck yeah!

Awesome! Thanks LMG and HTC! Twitter share from @benjachap: https://twitter.com/benjachap/status/340812907455594496

Just some friendly advice: use thermal pads on your MOSFETs in the future. Thermal paste doesn't always prove to be efficient, and clean up afterwords can be quite a mess.

This just completely blows me away. The attention to detail and the fact that you didn't let your hopes down in case of an incident is well respected. Keep it up!

Looks astonishing! Great job!

Did I win?

A matching kit of RAM / a good cooler like an H80 / Windows 8. Whichever you see fit, but I'd start off with Windows. It saves a lot of time in the long run.

Well this project ended a bit short unfortunately. The 9800 Pro Atlantis took it's final breath and has gone to GPU heaven. The rest of the system is functioning perfectly fine, and I'll hopefully continue this on when I get another 9700/9800/X-series. I squeezed in one last benchmark since last night, AquaMark3, and it had a pretty outstanding score :D

Wow, I think I might've gotten the chills :D. It looks excellent, awesome job!

*Update 1*: XP 32-bit fully up and running now, currently running 3DMark01 SE at 1024x768 at High settings, no AA or AF yet; I'll do that next, as well as at 1280x1024. Also on another note, the blue 80mm fan I removed because it was annoying me too much (with noise and how frickin' bright it was). I regret that so much now. A 92mm -3500RPM- fan is in there currently, and I can't change the speed, so I'm gonna have a jet engine at my side for the next several hours. Thank god for noise canceling earbuds, haha! *Update 2*: Got done with 3DMark01 SE, 3DMark03, and NovaBench. I'll move onto a couple of games tomorrow, then XP 64-bit.

Just posted the first teaser :p

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XP 32-bit Results: 3DMark01 SE: 1024x768, 32-bit color, no AA, Frame Buffer: Doubled, Texture Format: Compressed, Z-Buffer Depth: 24 bit, D3D Pure Hardware T&L - 16558 3D marks 1024x768, 32-bit color, 6x AA, Frame Buffer: Triple, Texture Format: Compressed, Z-Buffer Depth: 24 bit, D3D Pure Hardware T&L - 11085 3D marks 1280x1024, 32-bit color, no AA, Frame Buffer: Doubled, Texture Format: Compressed, Z-Buffer Depth: 24 bit, D3D Pure Hardware T&L - 14518 3D marks 1280x1024, 32-bit color, 6x AA, Frame Buffer: Triple, Texture Format: Compressed, Z-Buffer Depth: 24 bit, D3D Pure Hardware T&L - 8261 3D marks 3DMark03 Free Version: 1024x768, Pixel Processing: None, Texture Filtering: Optimal, Max Anisotropy: 4, Vertex Shaders: Optimal, Repeat Tests: Off, Fixed Framerate: Off - 6981 3DMarks NovaBench: RAM: 60pts, CPU: 111pts, GPU: 14pts, Hardware Tests: 4pts (Drive Write Speed was 6 MB/s... hahaha!) - Overall Score: 189pts AquaMark 3: 1024x768x32, no AA, AF: 4x, Details: Very High - AquaMark3 TRISCORE: 45,687 (GFX: 6,288, CPU: 8,354) (45.69fps avg.)