newegg youve out done yourselves

[raistnox]

so i just ordered a thermal take duorb cpu cooler and some arctic silver 5 thermal compound and just got in in the mail today and this is what i see in the bottom of the box

is that not amazing or what all that bubble wrap for the thermal compound lol

[chaksq]

There is a reason we rave about this site so much.

[d_stilgar]

So, the CPU is shipping separately, and will come in a crate delivered on a flat-bed?

[raistnox]

incidentaly this is the system the duorb is going into once i get it up and running I'll post some temps

not a bad machine for $700

by the by for those of you who noticed the lack of ram thats because its sitting in my main rig at the moment putting me up to 8 gigs (at least until I get an os for this one)

[x88x]

Hahaha, nice. I remember once when I ordered an OEM HDD from them and it came by itself in a box about 2' square, right in the middle and surrounded by a ridiculous number of packing peanuts.

[mtekk]

Hahaha, nice. I remember once when I ordered an OEM HDD from them and it came by itself in a box about 2' square, right in the middle and surrounded by a ridiculous number of packing peanuts.

Its to bad they don't do that anymore . Now you get them wrapped in maybe 2 layers of bubble wrap and then the rest of the box is "flatpac" which is little more than heavy paper. For that reason I don't use UPS/free saver shipping for hard drives.

[raistnox]

nope they still do the peanuts thing this box was ridiculously filled with em and the cooler itself was wrapped in so much bubble wrap that i am no longer worried about moving my fine china to my new house next week by the by its a service for 24 so thats one hell of a lot of bubble wrap

[Drum Thumper]

nope they still do the peanuts thing this box was ridiculously filled with em and the cooler itself was wrapped in so much bubble wrap that i am no longer worried about moving my fine china to my new house next week by the by its a service for 24 so thats one hell of a lot of bubble wrap

+1 to that. I recently bought a 2.5" sata hard drive from newegg. I swear the packing peanuts weighed more than the drive!

[StyleCore]

Nice PC. I just wanted to say I have the same fan cover. Even though my PC is more than 3 years old.

[raistnox]

lol its my wifes we didnt even know about the fan covers until we unboxed it

as for the temps on the duorb i dropped my hdd into the new tower to test it out se if there are any problems with the hardware and what-not and so far my idles temps on a phenom 9750 quad core are 29.27c
and under load from benchmarking it peaked at 32.3c so overall id say the duorb is a good buy little on the large side as you can tell so find yourself a slim fan for the back if you get one