I just built a i7 Sandybridge PC and thought i would share my experience for anyone thinking of doing so someone may find the information useful.
I'm using an Antec 900 case with a Akasa Venom CPU Cooler the only problem i found is the side fan on this case is a no no with this cooler unless you have the cooler aligned horizontally even then you will have to shave a corner off the fan to get it to fit, if you want the cooler mounted vertically you will have to cut off the fan holder on the side window as it fouls the cooler.
The Akasa Venom cooler looks great and temperature wise performs really well i used the thermal compound in the box and i have @ idle 26/33/35/28C and with prime95 running for an hour 55/65/66/61C
the motherboard is an Asus P8P67 LE with OCZ Intel Extreme XMP 4GB memory and a i7 2600K processor
The LE board has clocked the 2600k to 4.5Ghz without any problems at all, overclocking on this board is so ridiculously easy i think Intel have brought overclocking to the masses as even at default it was overclocked to 3.8Ghz before i did anything if you want to push it further then the lack of voltage control may be an issue for real hard core over clockers but at 4.5Ghz the 2600k in addition to the SSD is so fast i doubt anything will tax the system for a while.
The EFI BIOS take a bit of getting used to but after half an hour in it i love it.
installing everything was a breeze i have a Corsair force 60Gb SSD as my OS drive and windows 7 took literally ten minutes to install.
the only problem i did have was when you cold boot the PC on it would shut down and restart which was pretty scary the first time i fired it up after building, it seems to be a problem with the asus boards but there is a workaround (setting wake on PCIE power to enabled in the APM part of the bios ) and i think it's working fine now and a bios update will probably fix this.
Final Specs are...
i7 2600k
Asus P8P67 LE
OCZ Intel Extreme XMP 4GB
Akasa Venom CPU Cooler
Antec 900 Case
Force 60Gb SSD (OS)
Sammy F1 750Gb (DATA)
260GTX (216) GPU
X-Fi Fatal1ty
OCZ 600 Watt Modular PSU
DVD-RW
Overall im really pleased so far if i have any future issues i'll update this post
I'm using an Antec 900 case with a Akasa Venom CPU Cooler the only problem i found is the side fan on this case is a no no with this cooler unless you have the cooler aligned horizontally even then you will have to shave a corner off the fan to get it to fit, if you want the cooler mounted vertically you will have to cut off the fan holder on the side window as it fouls the cooler.
The Akasa Venom cooler looks great and temperature wise performs really well i used the thermal compound in the box and i have @ idle 26/33/35/28C and with prime95 running for an hour 55/65/66/61C
the motherboard is an Asus P8P67 LE with OCZ Intel Extreme XMP 4GB memory and a i7 2600K processor
The LE board has clocked the 2600k to 4.5Ghz without any problems at all, overclocking on this board is so ridiculously easy i think Intel have brought overclocking to the masses as even at default it was overclocked to 3.8Ghz before i did anything if you want to push it further then the lack of voltage control may be an issue for real hard core over clockers but at 4.5Ghz the 2600k in addition to the SSD is so fast i doubt anything will tax the system for a while.
The EFI BIOS take a bit of getting used to but after half an hour in it i love it.
installing everything was a breeze i have a Corsair force 60Gb SSD as my OS drive and windows 7 took literally ten minutes to install.
the only problem i did have was when you cold boot the PC on it would shut down and restart which was pretty scary the first time i fired it up after building, it seems to be a problem with the asus boards but there is a workaround (setting wake on PCIE power to enabled in the APM part of the bios ) and i think it's working fine now and a bios update will probably fix this.
Final Specs are...
i7 2600k
Asus P8P67 LE
OCZ Intel Extreme XMP 4GB
Akasa Venom CPU Cooler
Antec 900 Case
Force 60Gb SSD (OS)
Sammy F1 750Gb (DATA)
260GTX (216) GPU
X-Fi Fatal1ty
OCZ 600 Watt Modular PSU
DVD-RW
Overall im really pleased so far if i have any future issues i'll update this post
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