Heya guys, first post here - and thanks to Jody if he got my approval pushed through (took about a week).
Picked up my RE last week and the first thing I did was remove the Fusion block to do some custom cooling with it. I was very careful taking this off because I've been through the process before with my Maximus Extreme - was a pretty trying endeavor. My particular board appears to have had some QC issues as one of the inductors above the northbridge ended up staying attached to the Fusion block when I removed it. Really didn't notice that much resistance, but upon inspection it appears the legs of all 3 inductors on the 'south' side of the board were cold joints so this would explain it. I ended up just removing all 3 and ordering the largest current rated 1uh inductors I could find from digikey in the same package dimensions so in the end this will probably be an upgrade from the existing ones.
Also, plan on doing something slightly different with cooling for the northbridge regulation area...this plate:
can be removed from the Fusion system with (quite) a bit of effort. Yes, it needs to be cleaned up a bit with a grinder.
Here's the general idea:
All held together with generous amounts of AS Alumina epoxy. Could have just used a 40mm heatsink/fan - but all of the other fets are h2o so why not.
You can get a general idea of what I'm looking to do in my sig. Hopefully, I'll have no further setbacks with the system moving forward.
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