Computex 2011 - X79 motherboards

[HKPolice]

I'm surprised no one has complained about airflow issues with this design. The mosfets delivering power to the CPU will roast because airflow is blocked by TWO towers of dimms. Same with using twin towered high end heatsinks like the Noctua D14 or Thermalright Silver arrow, how the hell do you expect to mount the fans while using high heatsink dimms???

This could all be solved if they turned the whole socket and design counter clockwise by 90 degrees. The mosfets will get plenty of exhaust air from the heatsink and there won't be any clearance issues with the dimms.

I realize that Intel probably designed the pin out of the socket this way with all the PCIe pins clustered at the bottom for shorter traces. But I really hope someone breaks away from this stupid "reference" design.