So the graphics card has a ma-hou-sive heat sink on it. Really enormous and heavy. And it goes a bit quicker than the old(!) Radeon 6800 did. The whole machine is zippier, except for being totally disk-bound now. And it's cool. As in doesn't overheat. At all. It really is cool; I've not managed to push the CPU over 36° and that was overclocking by 8% (overclocking by 10% maked the thing hang when I tried it). The graphics card VPU gets to around 46° and I've not actually tried overclocking that yet.
And the hilarious thing about the mobo, is that you can ask it to talk to you at boot time. As in, it'll speak about any POST errors or to say that everything is fine and it's booting the OS now. Cheesey. Turned off now than you very much.
Still, DAoC goes like poop off a scoop now, so I'm happy.
