Not technically today (although it did extend past midnight) but spent yesterday afternoon and evening "upgrading" my computer, reinstalling windows (to fix the issues with leftover drivers) and downloading all my programs and any updates (surprisingly few...).
Although today I did test out two games that were giving me trouble due to my rather terrible prior CPU, and well, not so much anymore (went from a slow motion crawl @ about 40 FPS minimum in the yard section of Resident Evil 7 to a buttery smooth rock-steady 60 FPS). Not sure if I'm even gonna bother to overclock really, as I'm using the stock cooler and I don't want to ruin this mobo (although this time the VRM's <i>are</i> fully heatsinked.
I also looked over my old motherboard and realized that yes, one of the VRM mosfets was not covered by the heatsink, and yes, it did indeed blow.