Water cooling the Asus Maximus SE X38

[NoobCake]

hey guys, i was wondering how the hell did u guys take the stock heatpipes off the board? lol all i see is the black springy stuff and i have no idea how to remove it. And if i remove it, could i place it back on again for warranty purposes?

[Darkatom]

For me taking off the stock heatpipe was easy, now removing the paste fromt the nb/sb was a PITA . I finally got my system up and running, i'll go ahead and post some pics when I install some cc tubes. On a side note, the mcw30 chipset block was a very tight fit as the block was just a hair shorter compared to the mounting holes. Oh and I had no idea this board had an led light for hdd activity, my 8800ultra was covering it up this whole time.