Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
wow... i had not realized the waterblock was not touching the heatsink array directly!
AGAIN???? epic fail... thats really embarrassing... gigabyte made the same mistake before, i cant believe they did it AGAIN!
the waterblock is only touching .01mm thin alu fins that then touch the chipset base plate? who the h3ll comes up with ret4rded designs like this???

might actually still work "OK" to cool the board with water, but thats a really stupid design there hahah...
i doubt it matters much, but... they should rather have left the waterblock off to begin with and cut the cost by 10-15$ instead of adding a waterblock that pretty much cools the AIR flowing over the board
Yes, agree with you Sascha...UD9 waterblock design should be better than this, or just forget the waterblock and save the money. Hybrid Silentpipe design is better and i think good cooling solution already.