scary sounds when installing a q6600

Never had that sound when I built my pc.

It's probably as you speculated; the locking mechanism is the culprit.

As long as your pc runs fine, I wouldn't worry too much.

Intel's socket always makes me scared. Seems like I have to put way too much force into it to close it.. but there is never a problem.

As rabid said, you're fine.

Whew! Thanks for setting my mind at ease. I won't worry about it...at least until I get my GPU (tomorrow, I hope) and get the thing up and running.

Specs will be:

Cooler Master 690 Case
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (with Rosewill Cooler)
Gigabyte P35-DS4 rev. 2 motherboard
2 GB (2 x 1 GB) Crucial Ballistix 8500 RAM @ 1066 Mhz
BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512 MB (with stock cooling--should I upgrade in violation of the warranty?)
Corsair HX520 PSU
LG 20X DVD +/- RW w/ Lightscribe (transferred from existing rig and IDE, so will be on an IDE-> PCI card)
Seagate 500 GB SATA HDD perpendicular (though this may have to wait for a sale or I might buy s/t else)
2 X WD 250 GB IDE HDDs (transferred from existing rig)
Pair of JBL speakers which I like the sound of, but aren't shielded
Old 19" Samsung SyncMaster 763MB monitor that works fine. Keeping it until I can afford some nice LCD that works well for gaming (Any thoughts on these inexpensive 2ms Chimea LCDs that I've seen lately at Bensbargains.net???)

Updating from P4 2.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ASRock P4I45D Mobo, BFG GeForce 7800 GT OC (AGP and running only X4)

What do you think of the build?

OH YEAH?

My old build:
Athlon XP +3000 @ 2.1, OC to 2.1 [haha]
MSI KT880 Delta (freaking thing won't overclock 5MHz without crashing)
2x1GB DDR400 @ 2-3-2-5
7800GS

New build to be built monday: (waiting for GFX cards to arrive)
AC Freezer 7 Pro
Q6600 @ 2.4 OC to 3.6
Abit IX38 @ 1066 OC to 2000
4x1GB DDR2-800 OC to 1000 (OCZ ATI Certified)
2x2900Pro @ 600/1600 OC to 850/1900 (Aiming for 1000/2000 if i can lol)
ABS Tagan ITZ800w (20A on 6 rails each, 750w)(2x6pin, 2x6+2pin)
1TB drive space
XClio A380-PLUS case (250mm front intake fan, 250mm blowhole exhaust fan, 360mm side intake fan)
20" Widescreen Viewsonic LCD (looks real nice, but not high enough resolution to replace my 21" CRT)

Big monster it is.
Big monster it's gonna be when i'm done with it.

1,237 for everything but the GFX cards and ram (also bought a 500GB HD so that's included in the price, as well as a lightscribe DVDRW drive)
~385 for the two GFX cards
~140 for the 4GB of ram.

56$ rebate for the two sets of ram
40$ rebate for the PSU
20$ rebate for the monitor, SO:

1750 for everything before rebate
1640 for everything after rebate. Not too bad i think.
Woulda cost me 1450 but my wife didn't like my old monitor, so i bought her the LCD.

EDIT: This pc is gonna last me a while so that's why i got it all.
My old build would've lasted longer but a single core makes me want to choke myself because i'm a megatasker, so i really really need the quad. I don't really mind playing stuff on low, but i can't stand when my pc mucks up when i'm trying to unzip archives, xfer them, do a disk defrag on one drive, and run a avg scan on another. (while listening to music and surfing the net and playing a light game)

My older rig is going to my wife because all she does is use it for music, net, and runescape. No heavy gaming. All she has is a laptop so i told her i'd give her my old desktop if she wanted it and she did.

Lol.. same thing I do.

I have 3 systems sitting around while I redo them and sell them to friends of mine or give them to family.

Cool.
I'm hoping to get my parents to give me back my dell so I can hook it up to my new LCD tv and use it as a media center. Would be a great use of it for me considering it is from early 2003 and fitted with maximum ram, a decent graphics card, and a new psu. Plus, then I might get to build them a new pc! WOOT!@

I also do editing of my home videos and some other stuff that chews up CPU--ever do a TuneUp shred of 12 GB? I think the quad core will do nicely for these applications, plus multitasking.

Plus, I should be able to run lots of intense software (read: CRYSIS) at respectable framerates for the next few years.

p.s. Hey! I just move from 'stranger' to 'newbie'!!!!!

Just curious gary, but how much did you pay for that P4 7 years ago?

wow...seven years ago it was at least $300...so now you're paying less than that for your q6600!

It seems to me that the overall price of computer parts has decreased within the past two years. Now, you can build something equal to my system for about $1200 compared to what I paid for my whole setup $1700! and taht was a year ago!

Nice. I have the same setup except Asus mobo, 2GB ram and only one 2900Pro. But you got the 512MB GDDR3 version. I have the 1GB version that uses GDDR4 and you might have wanted to opt for that one in order to OC the card since it comes at a faster memory speed stock(900MHz) and I know you can pump the memory to 1100MHz(2200MHz effective) at least.

And for Crysis, you should get a nice 30+ FPS as I set mine to very high(in Vista too) at 1280x1024 and it was smooth the whole way. Even when I used the TAC launcher. Man that nuke never looked so beautiful except when it wes incenerating those darn Korean soldiers.