Originally Posted by CryptiK
I'm a bit late to the party, but I joined the ranks of you R3E owners today. It replaced my R2E which has been going strong for over a year.
Installed the EK-FC R3E and leak tested, looks good so far. The block is quite a restriction it seems (either that or its dumping a bit of heat into the loop) as my idle temps have increased from what they were with just the CPU and VGA in the loop in the previous setup. Load temps aren't too different though.
I'm running 0901 BIOS as that's what it shipped with, will have to read up on what's going on with them at this stage. Also have some things to discover and play around with like PMW freq, currently set it to 500KHz, but even at that level its allowing my CPU to run stable at lower vcore than the R2E. First impressions are I like it.
Some pics of getting it ready:
Prepping the board:
This kind of shocked me. There appeared to be grass and debris on the stock thermal pad! It's also a hack job in terms of pad cutting precision. Nice QC asus.
Block on the board
Now I'm ready to do the loop
Yes there is a lot of extra heat load, but it is also true the block is very restrictive. Just the nature of this large W.B.Mosfets make lots of heat! You now have that heat load as well as your NB + SB heat in your loop!
It is perfectly normal. If you increase the PWM Freq from 500 to 1000, you will notice even more heat.
Do you have any clearance issue with the EK-FB-RE3 and your first PCIE x16 slot lock? Mine is very tight.
I had a NB block only and after installing the full coverage EK block I could see the water was now very slow when entering the res.
But hey it works great and my over all temps are great.
No clearance issues with first slot what so ever.
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