Quote Originally Posted by Tobit View Post
There were simply removed to show which chips are under them. This is common practice when displaying brand new gear.
No, if you look at the benching picture, you can see that the NB, SB, and NF200 chips have a low-profile heatsink covering them, much like the large SB heatsink on the P6T7 or RIIE. This board is really meant to be put under water anyways, so I doubt that it will matter.

(By the way, is there any way that this topic could be merged with the other one? It's getting a little confusing trying to follow two active threads.)