**Official ASUS Striker II Formula Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread**

[Garrett]

I'm afraid you're gonna be disappointed.

First of all, you will have GREAT difficulty fitting the Aquacomputer waterblock without cutting off the first latch keeping the videocard in place, see first photo.

Second of all, you will have to remove the L-shaped piece of the videocard, which is kept in place by that latch, it has no copper traces so the videocard would probably still work 100% but you can forget any RMA... you simply can't fit a videocard in the first PCIE 16x slot because the card will "stand" on the waterblock... see second photo.

I ordered this block as well but ended up NOT installing it because of that.
I had 2 options, replace the stock TIM and live with higher SB temps than with water, or buying 2 EK blocks or something like that... I chose to replace the TIM on the stock cooling which gave me 3c better NB temps and 10c better SB temps (even though the guy who owned the board first already applied Ceramique on the blocks)
I must say I have watercooling and there's an 80mm fan hangin on the bottom 2 threads of the cpu waterblock, so right in front of the NB and I guess that is quite helpful