Scored well on the FurMark test, about to where I expected it. Was a little hot at 79c, but fan was only at 30%. In the second picture the V8 is the heatsink on the CPU. Things huge, weighs 1.9 lbs. Was a doozie to put on.
I picked up one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130604 last year. I'm happy with it for the most part (it's no 680), but was debating if I should move for more of an upgrade or just get a second one of those. What do you guys think? Would performance be better with a single slightly upgraded card (GTX 570/580) or two of those SLI?
Wow...really? What is your take on upgrading with another one of the GTX 560's and running SLI? Are two, somewhat lower level cards better than having a single slightly higher level card?
Organized my cables, much better. Ran into some issues while redoing the cables though. I had to remove the MOBO and I accidently put a wire in the wrong jumper and it started to restart on its own.. Had to restart CMOS and then more problems came up.. Took me about 6 hours to fix it. Re-applied thermal compound, which came with my heatsink. Ended up running more hotter than the artic silver that I had so I had to again re-apply with arctic silver.. Ugh. But. It's all running good now, overclocked to 3.4ghz compared to 2.67ghz. Ram is running at 1663. My CPU cores arn't going above 40c on idle which is better than it was with the other thermal compound. Will need to get another fan next to the PSU.
