Quote Originally Posted by rob2k View Post
@ aln688 - Good to see you are well on the way, stick with the RE it will be worth it in the end. The Enzotech MOS-C1 worked well for me and saved any cutting. Here is my board 'naked' but with new passive cooling before adding the water blocks :-

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Your board looks great, but what about cooling the MOSFETs around the CPU? Or is your water cooling device have that covered? I think for me, I'm changing from the Thermalright HR-09's, I'm going with an Enzotech MST-81 MOSFET cooler, it's actually listed on Enzotech's site as compatible with the Rampage Extreme.



I think the toughest part is waving goodbye to a large part of the board, taking into considering the cost of this board, and also the cost of buying new copper heatsinks to replace the missing HPA. I was seriously considering trying to make the stock HPA work, but after seeing the posts/pillars/legs of the HPA all different lengths, and a forum post that suggested the copper that sits on the three chokes/resistors near the NB is too low, therefore lifting the HPA up off the NB, I gave up trying.

I wonder if the Rampage Extreme II (X58) is the same under the HPA as this board? Who cares, once I've got this up and running, I'm not touching it for years, I'll take a look at Rampage Extreme V if there is one.

Thanks for the advice, both yourself and 3oh6, extremely useful and gives new comers hope with this badly engineered heatpipe assembly.