So, I finally got this bish runnin

I paid $20 for a professional to troubleshoot it. It turned out that the heatsink was screwed in too tight and it pushed the proc too far into the socket for it to work in a stable manner. I've never heard of anything like that. So, we had to loosen the mounts, and just barely tighten them fingertight. Needless to say, the mounting of this unit is as flimsy, and I'm not very happy with it.

So far, this setup roxors, except for the heatsink. Thermalright's online instructions were written in jap-arab-span-fren-glish and I could barely understand it. They were too cheap to print out a freakin instruction manual and include it with the heatsink. It was also packaged sloppily. When I tried to peel the protective plastic tabs off of the contact surface, the plastic kept ripping, and when I finally got all of the plastic off, there was still sticky adhesive all over the contact surface. I had to use paint thinner to get every single trace of it off, because alcohol wouldn't dissolve the adhesive.

So yea, all in all, thermalright 947U = teh :ghey:. It's a well designed unit, but in the end, it came up short of being satisfactory.

I have yet to try out the tuner function of the vid card, or the graphics function for that matter. The case is awesome. The screwless design made it easy to assemble. My friends tell me it's on the loud side, but it is quieter than my old comps so I can't complain. Most of the noise is from the cpu fan (vantec tornado) anyways. I haven't tried the nec2500 burner, but I've heard it's good stuff. The wd 200gb ide drive works great so far.