Quote Originally Posted by K404 View Post
Interesting set of comments regarding PWM cooling.

Has anyone ever seen a statement on a mobo box (ANY vendor) that says extra airflow IS needed? If the cooling is a must-have, why is it not included? Top-end GPUs don't come with passive heatsinks, expecting the user to add their own fan because it's so obvious.

I hope i'm coming across as devils advocate.

Not on a Mobo box, but I remember I had ASUS P5NT Deluxe socket 775, it came with an additional clip on fan for the VRM heatsink, it had a warning that the fan needs to be installed if water cooling is used.

But another point is Mobo makers don't need to say that, it says in the stress testing tools that excess stress will be applied and components can be damaged, a warning like that should make you research what it's about and how to stress test safely.