Well I have the basic system installed, good think too, my old Raptor hard drive gave out for good yesterday, managed to grab the data beforehand, which saves a longer download from Carbonite.
So I have it running with the stock intel cooler, and most of the bios at default except for the hard drive mode, which is set to AHCI.
What can I say, Solid state disks rock!! 11 seconds to boot windows from the last hardware screen, 34 seconds from scratch!
The system is instantly usable, so much so the windows startup sound doesn't even finish playing before I can use it LOL
Water cooling parts just arrived today, but I'll need to leave that till I have a day free to set it all up again. For now Windows 7 and Office 2010 bliss hehe. Going to go and pop steam on and see how fast my load times are now.
Just a note for your system Spider, I'm sure Scan will do it already, but if not, make sure your hard drive is in AHCI mode and download the latest Intel Rapid Storage Driver, that'll give you the best speeds by far.