ASUS Maximus Formula SE

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Thanks for the reply andyr. Good to know the temps run lower. Mabey the ROG got the stock cooling solution correct, for what this board will actually require?

I will start out on the stock Maximus SE cooling. I figure it will give me a chance to check the board out to see if I am having any heat issues, before I buy 4 more blocks and backplates.
Better to return too, if it was defective in any way.

What is kicking our butt's is this abomination statement in our Maximus manual:

"Install the optional fan only if you are using a passive cooler or a water cooler. Installing the optional fan with an active CPU cooler will interfere with the airflow and destabilize the system".

Due to me not having a passive water cooler, and having an active water cooler, I didn't want to destabilize the system......

They include in the box a small clear fan that just snapps in, blowing toward the CPU.

So actually we now have 2 questions.

1) Do we install the fan if using active water cooling.

2) Can a fan blowing toward the CPU destabilize the system, when using active water cooling?

Hi, Asus have always worded it this way with the optional fan that is supplied with any of their motherboards. What do you mean by active and passive wc? If it's the case that you mean your WC has a fan attached to the CPU water heatsink then it could be assumed that the additional fan would intefere with the airflow. If you mean that your WC is active by means that it is part of a wc system, ie water flows around through other components, then you would still require the additional fan. As Asus clearly make the distinction between passive, ie heatsink no fan or water, and water cooling I'd have thought it was quite clear.
You could try raising a technical query with Asus...

ChrisC