Congrats on your success.

However, I must differ with your manner of dealing with heat sink compound.
What you want is the thinnest layer possible which still makes full contact between the cpu and heatsink.
Putting a dab in the middle and relying on the heat sink pressure to spread it is not likely to get that.
I always spread it on the heatsink with a credit card, and then if it is a new installation, take it back apart to make sure there is complete coverage, and that the cpu or heatsink are perfectly flat. Then spread it back out and reinstall.

If you are not pushing the cpu particularly hard, you may get by with your method, but you would probably get lower temperatures if you did it properly.

As one who has done a lot of overclocking where this was an important issue, I do know what I am talking about.

Meow!

Understood, I spread the compound with a piece of plastic shaped like a credit card, very thinly, but I had already come to that conclusion when I was tearing the 1st Classified cpu out, in the bios I was seeing idle temps of 31-32C, for 2 whole hours, with the Corsair ram set @ 1866MHz, which is stock for this Corsair Vengeance 1866 ram, the i7 3820 cpu is running at 3.611GHz, which is admittedly a slight overclock, but I was aiming for more bandwidth and that's what I'm getting.

I have overclocked a cpu to 4GHz, but that was just to see if I could do that.

So far on the inside everything, except for dc power is plugged in and typing on this is tough...

Later.

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Ok, I have a problem, win 7 pro x64 says I can't install cause I have an editing bios which requires a gpt partition and not an mbr disk partition, if I go gbt I lose files, like email and paint shop pro 4.12, etc, etc, etc...

Why am I going this route? Cause my win 7 pro Installation blue screens, even in every version of safe mode...

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Ok, I have a problem, win 7 pro x64 says I can't install cause I have an x79 efi bios which requires a gpt partition and not an mbr disk partition from a p55 chipset(system), if I go gbt I lose all of my files, like email and paint shop pro 4.12, etc, etc, etc...

Why am I going this route? Cause my win 7 pro Installation blue screens, even in every version of safe mode...

Updating my last post and making some corrections.

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Return to stock clock - I had the same problem on a slightly over-clocked i7, it would appear that some i7 can't stand any overclocking, but others will go to "stupid" overclocks.

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Ok, I have a problem, win 7 pro x64 says I can't install cause I have an editing bios which requires a gpt partition and not an mbr disk partition, if I go gbt I lose files, like email and paint shop pro 4.12, etc, etc, etc...

Why am I going this route? Cause my win 7 pro Installation blue screens, even in every version of safe mode...

I have had this problem a number of times. The only solution that I have found is to use an external drive to make a backup of my files and then do what the install wants. After that you can bring the files back. If you are using Win7 you can use the WET method, Windows Easy Transfer. That can copy your files and settings and bring them into your new install.

I have spent days getting UFEI to properly see all my drives, both HD and Optical as it will tell me the Optical drive is not UFEI one time, and the next reboot it will be UFEI. I have not figured out what it is, except maybe my MBs are early UFEI and do not offer all the options that are now available.

WET is used on the old running drive first, before anything else is done. The program is found on the OS disk, or installed on your system already.

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The problem here is that Windows does start to boot and then blue screens in all modes, I have only one partition on my 500GB hdd, I don't have an external hdd, the only other hdd that I have is 250GB in size, the 250 is going to be installed in place of the 500, since the 500 is mounted in a hot swap bay, the 250 I can install an OS to without any worry.

My next step should be to strip the old pc of the remaining parts, then work on getting the EVGA P55 FTW to run as my pc, I'd like to upgrade to the ASUS Rampage III Extreme, but I don't know where the old air cooled chipset heatsink is at now, so the ASUS is out, since that pc is setup as a customized water cooled pc, I'd need a 240x60mm coolgate radiator, black tubing (1/2"ID-3/4"OD in size), fittings, clamps, a pump/reservoir, and 8 Noctua 2000rpm 120x25mm fans, plus I would need a water filter to clean out the blocks of any gunk that is inside(like old water dye, and/or foreign obects that could lead to pump failure), some fittings, clamps, a submersible water pump, and some distilled water, for the filter I already have some tubing and a bucket, I just lack the money for that and a 4th gtx590 card that works, the 4th card that I do have is needed for its parts, mainly for the two ram heatsinks that is lacking on one of my 3 working gtx590 cards.

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Vic - how many water coolers, radiators etc do you have "in stock"? - If you need one then use some of that stockpile, do not spend money you do not have. Get one PC running in a stable condition, which should not be hard as you had one until about a week ago:

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It certainly doesn't look as if that one was blue screening when you pulled it from service. It may not have been the fastest on the block, but it was working and did allow you to communicate with the world....

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Vic - how many water coolers, radiators etc do you have "in stock"? - If you need one then use some of that stockpile, do not spend money you do not have. Get one PC running in a stable condition, which should not be hard as you had one until about a week ago:

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It certainly doesn't look as if that one was blue screening when you pulled it from service. It may not have been the fastest on the block, but it was working and did allow you to communicate with the world....

No it was not, the motherboard would boot up with no video, the motherboard power regulators are nearly dead, as in almost not working anymore...

Aka: a Black Screen ... it DIED!!!!!!

I could hear what was going on, but that is all.

I have said that over and over and it seems I may as well be speaking an unknown language.

As to completing a pure water cooled gtx590 pc, at the moment I can't, l don't have all the minor bits, nor a pump/reservoir, nor a way yet to clean out the blocks and the 360x60mm radiator, if I can't flush those pieces pump failure would eventually happen.

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Ok, I partially installed the tx950w psu, installed the ram in the same positions as the ram was in over in the old pc, stilĺ to do: stow and connect the power cables, clean up and install Corsair H70 cpu cooler and fan, install 500GB hdd, I need a sata dvd drive(in case the OS needs repairs, I have a few, but they're not sata dvd drives and I don't have any way to use the non-sata dvd drives and I have searched a lot on that), install the EVGA gtx570 video card after applying some Noctua heatsink compound to the gpu. There is an MSI 6200 in the main pcie slot now(temporary until I'm satisfied about the thermal performance of the gtx570 card, then the gtx570 will be moved to the primary pcie slot).

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I did get 2 power cables connected to the EVGA P55 FTW motherboard today, I'm going to work on a drive swap, then clean the Corsair H70 cpu cooler and then install it.

Then figure out where to store most of the psu cables, since the psu is not modular at all.

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Don't bother about having the system tidy until you have made sure it all works.

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Ok I have cleaned the Corsair H70 cpu water cooling radiator and the block, of course now I find there is a problem with the Corsair H70 and my Cooler Master HAF-X case, the inside of the case has only 4 mounting holes, spaced for either a 240 or a 360 type radiator, not for a 120mm radiator like is on the H70, so that requires a fan grill from Performance PC's in Florida, that's $33.72 via the USPS for a Phobya Radiator Grill Triple Hexx in Silver $20.95 before shipping, but food and some gasoline for the car come first.

Why silver? Black is $21.95 before shopping, Silver is $20.95 and being mounted inside my case, silver is ok.

I also need a dvd drive with a sata interface for a Windows 7 Pro x64 dvd. Amazon has one for about $17.48 or so, delivered.

Pm me if someone has either one for my USPS delivery address, if someone has a part to spare, currently I don't have enough cash for everything.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Cheaper - just use two of the holes to mount the 120mm radiator in the location used by one of the 240 or 360 radiators.

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Cheaper - just use two of the holes to mount the 120mm radiator in the location used by one of the 240 or 360 radiators.

In most cases, like in the HAF-932, that could be done, the 932 has 12 screw holes in the top, in the HAF-942(HAF-X) Cooler Master removed 8 screw holes from the top thinking that no one would ever buy a 120 cooler in the redesign of the HAF-932 into the HSF-942. I am going to have to see about photobucket, I have a good pic that illustrates this going to waste...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

i'm running three 120mm radiators in my haf-x.

i took out the 140mm fan in the back and one of the radiators goes there.

in the top where there is a place for an optional 200mm fan i used two screws to mount a second 120mm radiator.

i didn't buy any fan grills from flo-rida.

i'm running three 120mm radiators in my haf-x.

i took out the 140mm fan in the back and one of the radiators goes there.

in the top where there is a place for an optional 200mm fan i used two screws to mount a second 120mm radiator.

i didn't buy any fan grills from flo-rida.

Ok woo, here's a pic of the inside top of my haf-x case, it's on Facebook, so it's a bit large, sorry.
http://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/t31.0-8/fr/cp0/e15/q65/13041382_1279626515398265_8132638325008326888_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9

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if i look at your pic i can see the crossbar on the right that i put two screws through to hold up my second radiator

Here is the before image of the Corsair H70(top), notice the tan color...

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Now here is the after image of the H70, it's black now.
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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Ok I just installed the 250GB WD Velociraptor in my ASUS RIVE X79 PC, on Saturnday I will open up one side of the AZZA 9000B case and install 2 parts, a sata cable and a molex splitter cable, then go into the efi-bios make a gpt partition, format the hdd, slow the ram from 1600 down to 1333, and then install Win 7 Pro x64 on the 250GB hdd, then I shoulder be able to read my notes and crunch while pivoting at warp speed.

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