Quote Originally Posted by bigslappy View Post
anyone who has this board check you stock cooling assy ! as i was removing one from one of R/F mobo's removed the screws & cut off the push pins ends (suckers are b*tch to out ) & the whole * Cooler Fell Off * in my hands both s/b n/b & memory controller only had a dime size TIM paste on each & s/b,n/b had also a small very thin thermal tape that was in peices . that was crap paste Too ! as it scraped off with my finger nail !!


I was doing all this in prep to put water blocks on everything . the mosfits had a thick thermal tape but contact was not great .... i'll be doing the other MoBo also soon
Yeah the stock board cooling looks nice from the outside, but under the hood it's a load of junk.

The mosfet cooler does not make good contact with the mosfets in the middle, the NB cooler uses extremely crappy TIM, it's like CA based superglue, and the SB cooler has almost zero surface area, and it's thermally coupled to the heat monster x48 NB via a heatpipe to boot.

I have HR-09s on my mosfets (make perfect contact), a DD MPC-Universal on the NB and an Enzotech CNB-S1L on the SB. I purchased a DD MPC-X38 to go on the NB, and I have it here, but it looks like its top may interfere with the pro mount on the d-tek fuzion unfortunately. It might fit, I'll just have to find out.