I guess you will all have to put up with me blogging about my new computer.

Most of the components arrived yesterday - everything but the CPU fan.  But 
I've got spare 120mm fans laying around, so that didn't stop me from putting 
it all together yesterday.  Once everything was installed, I turned it on, 
and surprisingly (for me anyway), it all worked the first time I flipped the 
switch.  It was about 10:30pm at that point (I'm slow), so I was going to 
simply leave it alone until today, but I just couldn't leave it.  I got 
Windows 7 installed and then messed around with some overclocking.

Asus actually ships with a utility that "auto-tunes" the overclock for you. 
It just keeps raising the speeds and voltages, then testing until your 
system crashes.  It was getting pretty late at that point, so I stopped 
messing with it, but it seemed to really start having trouble around 3.6 to 
3.7GHz.  3.5GHz seemed pretty stable, but it's hard to say for certain.

Windows 7 takes about 20 seconds from start to displaying the login prompt, 
then only 2 seconds from there to display the desktop.  Of course, as I load 
more crap onto the machine, that will become slower and slower.

Temps: I was in my basement, where it was perhaps 60F-65F last night.  With 
no overclock, the system was idling at about 24C.  That's crazy cool.  OC'd 
to 3.3GHz, it was idling at 28C and hit 56C under load.  I really didn't 
monitor the temps very much, though, so it's possible that they went a bit 
higher.

Fun!

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