Water cooling the Asus Maximus SE X38

[systemviper]

Gasp!

Less than optimum for heat transfer?
I do still believe the stock cooling is fine for mild over-clocking....
I do however think you can't have too much thermal play room either, and cool chips add to system stability.
Aftermarket blocks, and a quality mount and TIM are going to do better here for sure.

I also think that the fusion block is the Corner Stone of that whole heatpipe setup, so the better you get Xfer the better it will effect the whole heatpipe solution.

Do you think there is any gain in just switching that fusion block once it's removed and putting a MCW30 in it's place, even if it's epoxy mounted, or is that just overkill?
I am also speaking from the point of a Maximus Extreme owner, the bigger Blue heatsink (covering 2 chips) is more problematic to replace with all Aftermarket solutions.