Quote Originally Posted by Justintoxicated View Post
DeadGuy, I just got off the phone with Jeremy at DangerDen. He told me that the x48 with brass top will not fit and that the acrylic hold down only has 4 holes not 8 like in your picture. he does no know where the top you got came from, thinking you must have or someone else must have drilled those extra holes in it.

It sounds like my best bet is to buy the MCP universal with a brass top, although it won't cover the entire IHS The other option is to buy the x48 brass top and drill my own holes in the acrylic mounting piece, which requires a special acrylic drill bit. Since I need to get this show on the road it looks like I'll settle for the universal MPC.

I'm still not sure what to do with the southbridge. I don't really want to watercool it if it is not necessary since it would add restriction to my loop and make the posibilities of adding a second video card impossible. If someone can verify if the Ek block is low profile enough to clear the video card that would be amazing. For now I think my best bet is the Passive zalaman (this is the one I have on hand) http://www.svc.com/zm-nb32k.html. I have to admit that its tempting to just order 2 Universal MPC and forget about Crossfire (I have an Nvidia card right now anyways)...


pics? Does it cover the entire heat spreader?
Do you have the LT or the UT?

If you have the LT, just leave the stock heatsync on the SB! I just got my DFI X48 LT-T2R and on air cooling for everything temps are barely warm to the touch. If you bought the UT and had to remove the whole heat pipe assembly get the enzo low profile block everyone keeps talking about, it should clear your cards just fine. With the current state of cheap video cards, you would be shooting yourself in the foot by blocking those PCI-E x16 ports!