Quote Originally Posted by REVHEAD View Post
Thanks for your help guys really appreciate it, unfortunantly my rig refused to boot no matter what, I guess it was DOA and this is a first for me.

I finally got my old rig backtogether, I dont have the luxuary of owning a second pc, I think I need to get a laptop for things like this and I am back online, what a drama with all the water cooling changeovers I have had. I guess I will have to do a RMA? never done one before antything I should know before hand?

once again thanks guys.
Damn unlucky dude.. just make sure you phone them up and tell them what happened, and make sure you pack the motherboard properly!


Quote Originally Posted by rob2k View Post
Toying with replacing the heatpipe assembly completely so looking to fit those also but I'll be on air so will also utilise Thermalright HR-05/IFX North bridge cooler but still need some ideas for South bridge and the small chips to the left of the NB. Looking at EF's pictures for ideas.

Hmmm - slight flaw......serious space issues with TRUE120 so back to Arctic Silver 5 on stock heat pipe assembly.
On the southbridge any odd heatsink, mine was taken from an old P5B Deluxe will be more then enough to cool the southbridge.. even if you stick 4 of THESE, it will be great. I'm guessing the TRUE is in conflict with the MOSFET sink? you can try THESE, they should be low enough to avoid the TRUE, and look amazing. As long as you orient the TRUE to blow the air upwards, there shouldn't be any conflict with the NB, and if blowing the air to the back you may need to play around... I used THESE for the northbridge MOSFETs, and have ordered THIS from the states and will get rid of the hideous Zalman aluminum ramsinks.

Have a play around.. the improvement in temperature will be very much worth the investment.

BTW, I guess you replaced the stock cooling paste with AS5? Hows the temp now? Any improvement?