With watercooling,it's been my experience that the manufacturers are going with cheap thin orings.
Therefore i recommend changing them out. Chances are you may have damaged them from over tightening. I just get the " Viton 111" orings part # 9464 from www.mcmastercarr.com, there alot thicker...
Make sure you have the latest bios, next put everthing at stock and see if you still get the same errors.
If you still get the same errors chances are you have a defective cpu. Also check here there's alot of tried & true info here: www. evga.com
look in the forum section "780i"
I also got this case. I bought mine from performance-pcs.com. they have a nice option to do a triple radgrill mod on the top. Worked for me as i don't have the tools to do it myself. I'll be posting some pics soon as get the rest my parts in. Maybe i'll just start a worklog. @ Raxxath, thanks...
If your not gonna use sli i would just go with a x38 intel chipset like a gigabyte ds4 or if you want more overclock control go with a DFI T2R, http://www.ncixus.com/products/27482/LanParty%20LT%20X38-T2R/DFI/
To the hardocp staff, i dub thee "excellent review award" :)
I especially appreciate all the hard work that goes into that time consuming testing.
i really liked the resolution chart you came up with. a nice touch for the review :)
I took a chance buying 2 cards about 3 weeks ago even...
I noticed you are using win xp 64 version, have you tried updating all your drivers?
everything is pointing to one of your drivers being corrupted, so before you spend any more money, do this:
Download all new drivers, chipset, video, the whole nine yards. Upgrade your motherboard to the...
I was in the same boat as you trying to decide between the 27" & 30".
Then i saw this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824009101
I'm very happy with the acer and the money i saved over the dell.