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Ek monoboock on order mate to complete your bundle.
Just ordered my delid kit, so I could have a expensive paper weight shortly.
I can't say I am very impressed by OCUK with the way they handle ASUS support problems.
Edit: It seems the board needs to go back to Asus HQ in Taiwan..... This only gets better!
I'm not sure a Noctua will be able to cool the CPU running anything other than completely stock, as I believe they recommend running the minimum of a 360 rad for over clocking these CPU's.
Also without a de-lid, you are at the mercy of the stock Intel Toothpaste TIM, which really limits the OC Potental of these CPU's.
I'm pretty sure this board will not fit, as I had a Evolv ATX before getting my Caselabs case. As I was going to get the R5E10 board before this one and I know that one doesn't fit. However, you can get it to fit but you'll need to heavily mod the case.
Imo, the EK alcatel was the better option visually and more importantly functionally (it could be nice to see if there are air/corrosion issues with acrylic). Although no personal experience - Acrylic blocks seem to have so many issues with cracking/leaking it does appear to be a problematic material.
It doesn't fit in anyway, not without cutting the entire slanted part of the MB tray.
The D15S should be fine for now, I haven't decided whether to use a CLC or custom liquid cooler yet.
There are decent CLC setups coming from Lian Li also.
I thought they recently had some special doodab set up with ASUS meaning support was all really good. Maybe it was just GPU's or something.
Imo, the EK alcatel was the better option visually and more importantly functionally (it could be nice to see if there are air/corrosion issues with acrylic). Although no personal experience - Acrylic blocks seem to have so many issues with cracking/leaking it does appear to be a problematic material.
They are supposed to be the same block/plate right? Does the acrylic version cover the 10Gbe chip.I agree with the Alcatel solution, my only worry which someone on the ROG forums has commented on was the 10Gb NIC requires a additional heat sink which seems to be a stick on solution as its not covered by the block and the block its self doesn't connect into the Asus port to monitor these.
Just ordered my delid kit, so I could have a expensive paper weight shortly.
I can't say I am very impressed by OCUK with the way they handle ASUS support problems.
Edit: It seems the board needs to go back to Asus HQ in Taiwan..... This only gets better!
Acetal should be standard, sorry to say Acrylic cracks plus your screwing metal fittings into it (which is stupid imo, it cant take any stress whatsoever).
Ive never heard of Acetal corroding or cracking in any way, plus it handles rapid temperature changes and huge deltas also.
Let us know how you get on. Just take it steady mate and make sure you pull the IHS off with the correct procedure after breaking the seal.
I'd recommend watching gamers nexus guide on how to do it as it helped me quite a lot before I started on mine. Nail polish the caps with a few coats too if you can.
Delidded mine with ease so you should be fine. Was suprised how easy it breaks the seal to be fair. Very rewarding process.
I will do, oddly enough I have been watching their videos on it and also reading a lot of stuff from Overclock.net its and that's the reason i've gone with the Rockit 99 delid tool which is on the way over from the US at the moment.
Rather than use nail polish, I have some high temperature take to use to cover the SDM's etc...
Everyone seems to clean up the IHS which is a given but a lot of people i've not seen clean up the sub straight part of the CPU, so wondering ifs that's worth doing? I assume rubbing alcohol is fine to use.
As a few of them have cleaned them up like this (Pics from OCN):
De-Lid kit has arrived from the US, I only ordered it on Wednesday
Here comes a expensive paperweight.
Wow that was quick, what did they ship it in an F-15?
Good luck! I'm sure all will be good.