Quote Originally Posted by Lestat
we are talking asus here and YES under every possible assumption that can be made YES without a doubt i wouldn't put it past a manufacturer to do something that stupid.
i mean lets be real here there are plenty of mobo makers who put the video card right on top of the ram latches or right beside it. and you are forced to remove the video card to remove the ram.
and the placement of the atx plug is a fairly solid spot. meaning it can not easily be moved.
right now as it stands the plug receptacle is in a rather unwelcome location.

i doubt the heatpipe will be hot enough to melt anything but the possibility is definitely there. and its a VERY dangerous possibility.

also knowing how mobo makers do things, and that they either make something very tight, or very easy.. i have a sneaky feeling that you going to have to bend the wires over at a 45-75deg angle to fit it under the heatpipe.

and that many heatpipes truly dont help much. its a novelty that they think we want. use a good copper heatsink with a good low dB fan and it will work better.

i also think this picture is fake. or just a design mach-up.

look at the PWM area. there are no caps or anything but there are solder spots for them.
now look at the NB heasink.
who, and how would they mount a 2nd heatsink radiator on top of that for the heatpipe.
you can clearly see that the heatpipe sink fins are sitting right on top of the exsisting NB heatsink.
the southbridge also looks fake. even though its a black sticker, with what looks like the Gigabyte 'G' emblem, it looks liek the sticker was photochopped on there.
I'm sure Asus has some nice designers and good beta testers (us!). Now their engineers, I have my doubts.