ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[Talonman]

Just placed my order for one of these and it should be here tomorrow ,

Welcome into the Maximus SE Club!!

Are you going water or air?

[hornet]

CPU 3600Mhz
DDR2 1200Mhz
1.3840Vcore

[andyr(uk)]

Welcome into the Maximus SE Club!!

Are you going water or air?

I will use water , it is the will be strange not pulling off all the stock cooling for a change, usually thats my first job is to remove all the heatsinks

[Talonman]

I am going water too (First build). I noticed this board has a 4 pin CPU fan headder in the board. I currently only have 3 pin fans. If you are going water, do you need a fan connected there, for the board to boot? I heard some boards actually require a CPU fan to be connected when booting?

If so, what do water guys usually do with that fan, and what type to get?

Do we need to be shopping for a fan that connects to a 4 pin headder, or can we just leave him be?

[andyr(uk)]

I am going water too (First build). I noticed this board has a 4 pin CPU fan headder in the board. I currently only have 3 pin fans. If you are going water, do you need a fan connected there, for the board to boot? I heard some boards actually require a CPU fan to be connected when booting?

If so, what do water guys usually do with that fan, and what type to get?

Do we need to be shopping for a fan that connects to a 4 pin headder, or can we just leave him be?

I think it will just give fan fail on first boot and then set to ignore in hardware , if its the same as the p5k premium that is

[Talonman]

Sounds like fan fail dosen't stop it from booting up, just gives you an error.

I can live with that. I thought it might have been game over, like as in not booting at all until you plugged one in.