Rampage III Gene fullcover waterblock?

[Little Man]

Did EK ever end up re-releasing another block?

Which other brands have a full cover block (including SB would be nice) for this R3G board?

cheers

[bundymania]

afaik...nope

i only know the mentioned solution from little german manufacturer liquidextasy.de

[zeropluszero]

Did EK ever end up re-releasing another block?

Which other brands have a full cover block (including SB would be nice) for this R3G board?

cheers

Nope. I just got a refund. Besides Phil, as if you'd buy an EK block at the moment.

You buying a Gene?

[Little Man]

Nope. I just got a refund. Besides Phil, as if you'd buy an EK block at the moment.

You buying a Gene?

Nickel issue yeah?

Just wondering what else is out there because if i buy another brand chipset block, i have to buy the same brand the cpu and 2 gpu blocks and ram block. Being the brand:banana::banana::banana: that i am.

I've said too much.

[zeropluszero]

Nickel issue yeah?

Just wondering what else is out there because if i buy another brand chipset block, i have to buy the same brand the cpu and 2 gpu blocks and ram block. Being the brand:banana::banana::banana: that i am.

I've said too much.

unless you really have to have mATX, order yourself up a P6T6 like me and Jay (maybe jay wants to sell his?) ing awesome boards, and you can get Koolance, Bitspower and MIPS chipset blocks, should you want to.

if you have to go mATX, im not sure id recommend the gene for watercooling, the gene is a great board, but it does run warm, and my EK chipset block fried my board, as you can read in this thread.
unless you want to order yourself a set of MIPS for it *shrug*

[R37ribution]

unless you really have to have mATX, order yourself up a P6T6 like me and Jay (maybe jay wants to sell his?) ing awesome boards, and you can get Koolance, Bitspower and MIPS chipset blocks, should you want to.

if you have to go mATX, im not sure id recommend the gene for watercooling, the gene is a great board, but it does run warm, and my EK chipset block fried my board, as you can read in this thread.
unless you want to order yourself a set of MIPS for it *shrug*

I'm not really sure why you would need to water cool the north bridge or south bridge on the gene unless you just want to be able to say everything is under water... I own one and just put a spot cool on the NB which keeps it well under 60 C with 1.25v going to it. The SB also stays under 60 without assistance from any fans

[zeropluszero]

I'm not really sure why you would need to water cool the north bridge or south bridge on the gene unless you just want to be able to say everything is under water... I own one and just put a spot cool on the NB which keeps it well under 60 C with 1.25v going to it. The SB also stays under 60 without assistance from any fans

for people that have zero airflow in their cases. like in my Lian Li V352 at the time.

[Vetalar]

@R37ribution
nothing REALY needs to be watercooled in todays PCs rigs anyway. but it's still here

[Little Man]

unless you really have to have mATX, order yourself up a P6T6 like me and Jay (maybe jay wants to sell his?) ing awesome boards, and you can get Koolance, Bitspower and MIPS chipset blocks, should you want to.

if you have to go mATX, im not sure id recommend the gene for watercooling, the gene is a great board, but it does run warm, and my EK chipset block fried my board, as you can read in this thread.
unless you want to order yourself a set of MIPS for it *shrug*

Nah can't justify $400 just for the board. Not worth it imo.

Didn't your block not make contact with the VRM's or something? Also the mips blocks appear to be in 3 pieces worried south bridge block will block either the 1st or 2nd pci-e, do you know if it will?

Also when can i find a Lian Li PC-A05N?

[Farmerbrown]

I am able to get hold of an EK Rampage Gene III waterblock for a very good price, do you think its worth me trying to see if it would work???

[zeropluszero]

I am able to get hold of an EK Rampage Gene III waterblock for a very good price, do you think its worth me trying to see if it would work???

not a chance.

[zeropluszero]

Nah can't justify $400 just for the board. Not worth it imo.

Didn't your block not make contact with the VRM's or something? Also the mips blocks appear to be in 3 pieces worried south bridge block will block either the 1st or 2nd pci-e, do you know if it will?

Also when can i find a Lian Li PC-A05N?

skip the SB. you dont need it. my block made contact at the vrm and shorted something so it wouldnt boot. i tightened it, and somehow it fried my X58.

[Little Man]

skip the SB. you dont need it. my block made contact at the vrm and shorted something so it wouldnt boot. i tightened it, and somehow it fried my X58.

I see.

Yeah i'll probably just skip watercooling the board all together, too much hassle.

And i don't want your HF.

[zeropluszero]

I see.

Yeah i'll probably just skip watercooling the board all together, too much hassle.

And i don't want your HF.

keep your EK then :P

[Little Man]

keep your EK then :P

What EK?

XT here i come.

[Farmerbrown]

not a chance.

Well I didn’t take your advice lol instead I spoke to EK myself and had them send me a waterblock and with careful steps and insulating certain parts of the motherboard the waterblock works like a charm

[paulbagz]

Wasn't user error to begin with?

What were the steps they explained Farmer?

-PB

[zeropluszero]

I wouldn't touch an EK block at the moment, But hey, best of luck with it. It was hard to say. The blocks worked on some boards and fried others.

[Farmerbrown]

Wasn't user error to begin with?

What were the steps they explained Farmer?

-PB

Well I insulated all the parts of the motherboard which arnt going to be cooled by the waterblock, mainly all the parts around the NB just used insulation tape for now just wanted to test it and it works might change out all the tape for something else, maybe what people use when using dry ice. Also the screws arent to tight.

The tape was placed on the waterblock itself but this again is only a temp solution just to see if it works. I will be over the next week replacing the tape and i will take some photos of what i did.

Maybe i just got lucky with my MB i mean its one of the first once that came out had it on pre-order, or maybe i just took more care.

All i know is that it worked for me

[Waterlogged]

You did a lot of extra work that shouldn't have been needed and you got lucky.

[Farmerbrown]

You did a lot of extra work that shouldn't have been needed and you got lucky.

Ya thats true but in the end it worked, i mean these people cant always get it right, and from now on i think i will be still insulating parts of the motherboard that dont need to be cooled, its much better and it works

[FaYt]

sorry for not talking about the waterblock for this awesome motherboard... but since a lot of people use this motherboard i have a question, i have disabeld the intel speedstep but it still keeps ing up my core speed... (I7 930) it is standard 2.8 Ghz but it clocks back to 1600 mhz until i start doing something and then it goes up... normally u just disable speedstep and problem solved... but i want to disable it because i wanna overclock it :P and need 100% speed for stress testing...

[mm67]

sorry for not talking about the waterblock for this awesome motherboard... but since a lot of people use this motherboard i have a question, i have disabeld the intel speedstep but it still keeps ing up my core speed... (I7 930) it is standard 2.8 Ghz but it clocks back to 1600 mhz until i start doing something and then it goes up... normally u just disable speedstep and problem solved... but i want to disable it because i wanna overclock it :P and need 100% speed for stress testing...

You need to disable C1E , SpeedStep and C-State Tech options to always run at full speed. I run my my board with an i7-950 at 4 GHz and I keep those options enabled

[FaYt]

ok so enabling them has no effect in creating a stable overclock.. i always thought they did... do you have anny suggestions to oc on this nice mobo.. i have it for a week or 2 now and i'm used to DFI bios so this is a bit different and i always had AMD before this I7 so i'm not that into ocing with I7 its a little different then a AMD :P

thanks for the quick help

[c22]

I just bought mips r3gene set for the board and fullcover for 560ti, going to install it soon (when enzotech compression fittings arrive) and make a worklog