Tuesday, May 19th 2009
Enthusiast Designs Custom Water-Block for Rampage II Extreme
A certain enthusiast by the name (or alias) Mo Lan at Expreview.com has come up with a custom unified chipset water-block for the ASUS Rampage II Extreme motherboard. The block draws inspiration from the industrial design of the board, and features an etched, see-through ROG logo. The block uses a full-coverage design, that covers the X58 northbridge and ICH10R southbridge, while also cooling a small portion of the board's VRM under the memory slots (perhaps the vDIMM) along the way. Expreview plans to thoroughly evaluate this water-block soon.
Update (05/19): One of our readers has pointed out that the cooler design is based on the Koolance MB-ASR2E coupled with Koolance MB-ASR2E DRAM attachment, with a custom top designed by the enthusiast.
Source:
Expreview
Update (05/19): One of our readers has pointed out that the cooler design is based on the Koolance MB-ASR2E coupled with Koolance MB-ASR2E DRAM attachment, with a custom top designed by the enthusiast.
19 Comments on Enthusiast Designs Custom Water-Block for Rampage II Extreme
the guy made a custom top for it, and its not difficult.
But the block is by koolance with the DRAM cooler option.
www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=772
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www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=796
so it looks like this:
If he is trying to sell it off as his own brand, that is so not cool expecially since im friends with people who work at koolance.
:cool:
This should give you an idea..
All he did was change that steel top and nickle plate it. The block was NOT DESIGNED by him. And credit should be given to Koolance.
it does look good, though!
The block you see is a 2 part block. The main nb/sb full board block + the DRAM Cooler.
The performance is all dependant on how you use the blocks. Sure if your water system is already tax'd and you put more heat, then you wont get better temps then air.
However if your system can support the extra load and you can afford the price tag, then its in your best interest to fullboard block it.
My classified has a fullboard block on it right now, and so does my P6T-Dlx.
Well the P6T-Dlx i have would have real customized blocks.