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I still haven't had anything cold on this motherboard yet and this memory has been the only kit to grace the DIMM slots of the Maximus Extreme so there are no photos or results from any phase or dry ice work. I will certainly add those when I do go cold with this board and these modules. I have also bypassed the Dominator fan in favor of 120mm fans in order to help with the cooling of that huge heat-pipe mess of a chipset/PWM heat sink. During testing, as we can see, I had a couple different fan setups but at all times there was a 120mm fan over top of the Dominator memory.
The motherboard obviously isn't volt modded as it likely won't be necessary for this ROG board. I also haven't changed the chipset cooling so this motherboard is literally straight out of the box. So far, it has performed admirably but as mentioned, it still hasn't been cold so I will wait until I get some benching down and the board sees sub-zero before I praise it like my monster Asus P5K3-Dlx.Code:Hardware used: MB: Asus Maximus Extreme (BIOS 0803) CPU: Intel C2D E6850 (L724A479) CPU Cooling: Thermalright Ultra-120 GPU: Biostar 8600GTS 512MB DDR3 NB Cooling: Stock SB Cooling: Stock PWM Cooling: Stock PSU: Silverstone Zeus 560W HD: Seagate SATAII 80GB 8MB NCQ OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 Ambient Temperature: 22-23C
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