Water cooling the Asus Maximus SE X38

[Talonman]

Nice job on your removal of the stock cooling BTW.

I was wondering about cutting up the pads too.
I just left mine 1 big strip, but I am sure as long as they all stayed in place, you will be fine.

What did you think about our stock SB heat sink?

I felt like the mark wasen't too high to realize a performance increase, on whatever parts we opted to replace it with. I thought the sink was too small, and even heard some people say that the heat pipe might actually be raising the SB temp, by adding some NB heat to it via the pipe? The sink is aluminum and too anorexic I think...

I am glad now that my stock cooling is gone.

Let me know if you see some lower NB temps after the EK block was installed.
I think your NB block will shine with it's new temps under load, more so than at idle. It is when chips really start to heat up, that will test your cooling method!

I did get my fan wire in strapped down too: