Where are the full board blocks for Z97 m/boards?

irh1

irh1

irh1

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Hi,

Are there none because they are new? or is it because they just don't really need them?

Current motherboard and/or chip died, so looking to replace them both (thinking i7-4790K plus Z97 board). Use watercooling to keep pc silent (passively if Graphics card is idle - have a very big external radiator) but also because PC is hidden from sight so gets poor airflow. Had been looking at a Maximus VII Formula ('cos I'm a bit lazy) but SB only has a heat sink, and hence wider search and question.
 
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SB puts out less than 10w of heat, and it complicates loops so much. I had the EK kit on the M6F and know first hand how useless that was.
 
I got a set of full MB blocks for my Rampage IV Extreme, looking back I wouldn't have bothered.. It's made the loop far more complex than it needs to be.

I notice on EK's site it does actually say:

Please note this water block cools exactly as much heat generating components as ASUS factory cooling solution.
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BattFink said:
I got a set of full MB blocks for my Rampage IV Extreme, looking back I wouldn't have bothered.. It's made the loop far more complex than it needs to be.

I notice on EK's site it does actually say:
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This post is a slight tangent so I will keep it short. I think that EK's notice just means that it cools all of the same components that the stock solution cools, not that it cools with the same efficiency.

I have also water cooled by Rampage IV extreme. In my case, due to my cooling design, I had very little / no airflow over the VRMs and they were overheating when I overclocked the CPU - throttling performance. The waterblock solved this problem immediately - my point being that in some cases there can be a good reason to water cool a MB
 
BluSky said:
This post is a slight tangent so I will keep it short. I think that EK's notice just means that it cools all of the same components that the stock solution cools, not that it cools with the same efficiency.

I have also water cooled by Rampage IV extreme. In my case, due to my cooling design, I had very little / no airflow over the VRMs and they were overheating when I overclocked the CPU - throttling performance. The waterblock solved this problem immediately - my point being that in some cases there can be a good reason to water cool a MB
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Very badly worded by EK.
Its nothing a fan ontop of the NB couldnt fix though ;)
 
true - but I didn't want another fan... the point of full watercooling (for me) is quiet lol. That and it would have looked rubbish through the window :P
 
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