ASUS RAMPAGE II GENE (Retail) : ROG. X58 m-ATX preview

[aln688]

Nice aln688, looks good . Maybe I'll post some pics of mine when it's completely done. I'm waiting on my backplate mod and few other details then I'll come back here and post . Thanks again for all your help in this thread.

Thanks, and glad to help. It'd be great to see some pictures of your final PC build, I'm always interested to see different builds using this board.

That´s a really nice modd of the NB . To bad i cant find a place that sell the Noctua U6 cooler so i ordered a Thermalright HR-05 IFX instead, hope that thing will work and lower my 60+ degrees NB

As someone else stated, the HR-05 IFX will not fit. The pipe coming out the base is too elongated before it bends upwards, it'll hit the side of the stock heat-sink, the part where the ROG logo is. You're only choice would be the SLI version of the HR-05 IFX, Xigmatek Porter or a copper chipset heat-sink which I don't have the name of, but should be available in Europe. I'll post back when I get the name of it.

I Just want to show my pc here it just got completed when i added my 5870. I will repost my pics when i got a camera, now i made them with my phone.



Stats:
Core i7 D0 (Running on 4,2Ghz Max 76c)
Rampage II Gene (NU-U6 on NB)
Corsair 1600Mhz
Asus HD5870 (Still running on stock :P)

WC setup:
HK 3.0 + Backplate
Swiftech 240 rad
Laing DDC-1 MCP350 (Modded)

Hope you like it.

That looks great! When I built my system I had a 4870 X2 from a previous build, so I used that. Is the 5870 significantly faster? It's amazing how water cooling removes the "bulk" from inside the PC, no CPU heat-sink, fan, etc., the Noctua U6 looks lonely! Nice system.

That's a nice packed rig you have there! Any reason you decided to put the vid card in the bottom slot?

I'm sure rickxbox will tell you, but my guess would be to separate the heat from the video card from the heat on the U6, so there's an air gap in-between them. That's just speculation though.