I went to B&Q this afternoon and left the new Q6600 system downloading stuff. When I get back it's sitting at 50c on the desktop and the fans are hardly spinning; it seems to have a very lazy fan controller. Is the CPU currently on fire? No? OK I'll stick to 1100rpm no worries. Downloads also top out at 2.6mbps even though older boards have hit higher on this dongle (and the dongle can do 14mbps on a new machine). I wonder if it is a USB problem.
I therefore changed over the cooling, put a PCI USB2 card in, and also put my other Q6600 in (which never reported temps like that in my old motherboard) and took the opportunity to take some pics.
Proper cooler! And 8GB of DDR800MHz RAM
A mess of black and silver (and a RX 570X) until my 4890 arrives.
The old 80 or 92mm cooler vs the 120mm cooler I tell it not to worry about.