Water cooling the Asus Maximus SE X38

[Talonman]

Thanks for the links, and the info Scooby!!

Way to be a team player...

[dude_500]

Do my MOSFET's need more cooling than stock? I saw some other people putting more cooling on them.

I currently have a Q6600 G0 at 3.45GHZ with 1.39Vcore, and once I get another radiator hope to go as high as 4GHZ. My MOSFET stock heatsink gets pretty hot right now. Should I pull the thermal tape off of them and use some arctic ceramique? Would that even help? Should I get some better heatsinks or even blocks for them? Thanks

[Talonman]

I think you will find that most is unknow data at this time. I upgraded the MOSFET sink due to me just having more faith in the Thermalright sink, over the stock one. Not sure if I really needed to or not.

I considered arctic ceramique, but didn't think that I could insure all chips would make contact with the sink. The thermal tape gave me more slush room. It dosen't take much to bow your mobo, and if your sink isn't 100% flush with all chips, one will be getting no help at all.

I have no doubt that arctic ceramique would transfer heat better than thermal tape, but to me the risk was too high.

In the end I felt like thermal tape, and the Thermalright sinks would probably keep me in the safe zone, what ever that is...

I am officially considering it to be an upgrade over the stock sink, so it will have to do!

I ended up using the Thermalright tape. They used real copper in their sink, and look pritty cool for a heat sink too.
I can only hope they didn't cheep out on their tape?

I still will probably add another fan for them? Not sure until I remount everything.