You should pay attention to the last picture more closely. This rig has 2 separate water cooling systems but the tubing is very well managed. It will even look better with the LEDs off.
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The only concern I have with this sort of setup is that it makes water cooling required; which means if I suffer a hardware failure I can't just yank the block off and slap my spare 212 heatsink on to keep my system running until I can get and assemble a replacement loop because if I did so the naked VRMs would cook themselves.
That also means it wouldn't have any future past being my main machine, because for secondary/hand me down boxes I absolutely don't want to be screwing around with a custom loop.
Unless they completely cheap out or screw up on the VRM (which generally MB manufacturers are very good at designing these days), you'll be fine without active cooling on them for a while. At most you'd have to turn down the OC or reset it to stock (actual Intel guidelines stock, not whatever MB BIOS sets to as stock with MCE or whatever) until you replace it.
Agreed, but I think it's a step in the right direction for product differentiation that actually adds some sort of value without blowing out the budget.
Not a bad price considering. But I wish it had standard heatsinks for vrm's. That way if you decide not to water cool the mb, it would still be useable.
My question is if you are not going to cool the MB with water why would you buy this in the first place? Seems like putting a automatic gearbox alongside a manual incase the driver doesnt want to use the clutch.
If you dont want to water cool the mobo, or are on the fence, why not buy the standard carbon instead?
You really have to hand it to Intel despite having an inferior product they are throwing money at suppliers and marketing budget to keep their product up front and centre AMD would do well to take note and do some of the same
I'd recommend a solid bonk of your head against an arbitrary choice of ATX case. Do you really think a product of this complexity was planned and designed while the details and performance characteristics of Zen 2 were known?
Zen 2's expected performance characteristics were already known about 18 months ago. By then it was also clear that Intel would not be responding with anything comparable.
Please do tell us more about how a custom waterblock and blinkenlights constitute a product of such complexity that it required more than 18 months to develop, though. I'm all ears - practically made of the damned things.
complexity? what a water block? dude these are 2 a penny make the first out of a known material say 2-4 Days tops in a workshop test then mass produce its not that difficult, what is difficult is convincing a producer that its financially going to be viable and they wont lose money, its a Halo product for the masses and no I wont bonk my head AMD is missing a trick here and should take a long hard look at the lack of marketing, ok they dont need to but still it would be good to get more online exposure for the platform
I was wondering when we will get a mid range board with a built n waterblock. Not many are willing to spend 1K to get that feature set. For those looking to watercool a gaming rig this would be a great choice especially since a monoblock alone from EK is around 200.
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sonny73n - Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - link
This water cooling setup looks really nice and neat.close - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
Sure, LEDs right? I mean if you love Christmas trees you can't not love this...sonny73n - Saturday, June 6, 2020 - link
You should pay attention to the last picture more closely. This rig has 2 separate water cooling systems but the tubing is very well managed. It will even look better with the LEDs off.hopearhodes30 - Thursday, June 11, 2020 - link
I was without work for 6 months when my former Co-worker finally recommended me to start freelancing from home… It was only after I earned $5000 in my first month when I actually believed I could do this for a living! Now I am happier than ever… I work from home and I am my own boss now like I always wanted…Everytime I see someone like that I say START FREELANCING MAN! This is where I started. WWW. iⅭash68.ⅭＯⅯDanNeely - Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - link
The only concern I have with this sort of setup is that it makes water cooling required; which means if I suffer a hardware failure I can't just yank the block off and slap my spare 212 heatsink on to keep my system running until I can get and assemble a replacement loop because if I did so the naked VRMs would cook themselves.That also means it wouldn't have any future past being my main machine, because for secondary/hand me down boxes I absolutely don't want to be screwing around with a custom loop.
GokieKS - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
Unless they completely cheap out or screw up on the VRM (which generally MB manufacturers are very good at designing these days), you'll be fine without active cooling on them for a while. At most you'd have to turn down the OC or reset it to stock (actual Intel guidelines stock, not whatever MB BIOS sets to as stock with MCE or whatever) until you replace it.Spunjji - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
Agreed, but I think it's a step in the right direction for product differentiation that actually adds some sort of value without blowing out the budget.Dug - Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - link
Not a bad price considering. But I wish it had standard heatsinks for vrm's. That way if you decide not to water cool the mb, it would still be useable.TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
My question is if you are not going to cool the MB with water why would you buy this in the first place? Seems like putting a automatic gearbox alongside a manual incase the driver doesnt want to use the clutch.If you dont want to water cool the mobo, or are on the fence, why not buy the standard carbon instead?
back2future - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
like they named this technology "CARBON", seems a suitable usage for that elementalufan - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
You really have to hand it to Intel despite having an inferior product they are throwing money at suppliers and marketing budget to keep their product up front and centre AMD would do well to take note and do some of the samelmcd - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
I'd recommend a solid bonk of your head against an arbitrary choice of ATX case. Do you really think a product of this complexity was planned and designed while the details and performance characteristics of Zen 2 were known?If you actually think this, please, bonk again.
Spunjji - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
Zen 2's expected performance characteristics were already known about 18 months ago. By then it was also clear that Intel would not be responding with anything comparable.Please do tell us more about how a custom waterblock and blinkenlights constitute a product of such complexity that it required more than 18 months to develop, though. I'm all ears - practically made of the damned things.
alufan - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
complexity? what a water block? dude these are 2 a penny make the first out of a known material say 2-4 Days tops in a workshop test then mass produce its not that difficult, what is difficult is convincing a producer that its financially going to be viable and they wont lose money, its a Halo product for the masses and no I wont bonk my head AMD is missing a trick here and should take a long hard look at the lack of marketing, ok they dont need to but still it would be good to get more online exposure for the platformPeachNCream - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
I guess someone will buy one of these. Whatever.Hxx - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
It will sell pretty well considering that a high end board is almost just as much but without the monoblock.Hxx - Thursday, June 4, 2020 - link
I was wondering when we will get a mid range board with a built n waterblock. Not many are willing to spend 1K to get that feature set. For those looking to watercool a gaming rig this would be a great choice especially since a monoblock alone from EK is around 200.