Live MB OC Report :: ASUS Rampage Extreme

[aln688]

Happy New Year to you too .... thought you had an extended Christmas hols

Guess they must have removed the hooks for cost saving !, the thermal tape should work well but as the SB chip is smaller than the CNS-S1L it might be worth leaving the legs on at first to test the tape or future use on another board. Your build is looking good

I wish! Christmas goes too quick!

Thanks on the board, I'll post a few photographs after I have everything installed, which should be next Tuesday or Wednesday. I also have to shorten the Panaflo cables, that means getting out my soldering iron and some female pins for the 3-pin plug, then sleeving the cable once done.

I could leave the legs on the Enzotech for now. I read in another forum someone left them on so he could attach a 40mm fan, but I'm aiming for less fans in my system. As a result of using the Noctua NC-U6 Northbridge heatsink, which will be fanless, I upgraded to 86 CFM medium-speed Panaflos front and rear (120x120x38mm) to have more air flowing through the system.

I really like that Noctua U9B CPU heatsink, small and compact, and with the medium-speed Panaflo attached to it (48 CFM), it should perform well. I'm selling the Noctua 92mm fan that came with it.

Just waiting on the Enzotech CNB-S1L, I've already got the Noctua U6. Once the Enzotech arrives I can may file it down, attach the 3M 8815 thermal tape, get the U6 installed and the U9B then the board is ready to be installed in the case.

For case fans, do you use rubber anti-vibration grommets, nylon screws, plastic push-pins, regular steel screws, what exactly? The other item I need to know, is if this board will accept 8GB successfully? Or does my overclock determine how much RAM I can use?

Thanks.