I'm a bit late to the party, but I joined the ranks of you R3E owners today. It replaced my R2E which has been going strong for over a year.
Installed the EK-FC R3E and leak tested, looks good so far. The block is quite a restriction it seems (either that or its dumping a bit of heat into the loop) as my idle temps have increased from what they were with just the CPU and VGA in the loop in the previous setup. Load temps aren't too different though.
I'm running 0901 BIOS as that's what it shipped with, will have to read up on what's going on with them at this stage. Also have some things to discover and play around with like PMW freq, currently set it to 500KHz, but even at that level its allowing my CPU to run stable at lower vcore than the R2E. First impressions are I like it.
Some pics of getting it ready:
Prepping the board:
This kind of shocked me. There appeared to be grass and debris on the stock thermal pad! It's also a hack job in terms of pad cutting precision. Nice QC asus.
Block on the board
Now I'm ready to do the loop
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