I have read on the DFI forum that removing the heatpipe system is a bad idea. I would like to either:

1.Remove the entire heatpipe and put waterblocks on nb and pwm and a heatsink on sb

2. Just remove the nb cooler and put a waterblock on it instead

Has anyone removed the heatpipe system, without breaking the board?

Watercooling the cpu was easy but removing the heatpipe system might be a totally different thing and don't wanna break my board.