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crazyguy_60   07-09-2009 at 11:40:36 PM

I noticed that the cooler on the Asus Maximus Extreme X38 motherboard (for LGA775) has a waterblock on the chipset. But does the motherboard NEED water cooling to operate?

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boulard83   07-09-2009 at 11:46:36 PM
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no. but it can help

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japps2   07-10-2009 at 12:13:40 AM
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no, it will be fine up to about 400MHz FSB speeds. I started to get failures at anything over 400MHz. I ran my Maximus Extreme at 400MHz on air for about 1 year. I did switch over about 9 months ago to watercooling for my NB, SB chipsets along with my CPU. The motherboard is much more stable and BSOD issues have disappeard since.

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crazyguy_60   07-10-2009 at 08:56:30 AM
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Thanks for the help!
Also, as a final question, what's the difference between the X38 chipset and the X48?

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mcnuggetofdeath   07-10-2009 at 07:34:17 PM
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crazyguy_60 wrote :

Thanks for the help!
Also, as a final question, what's the difference between the X38 chipset and the X48?



Forgive me if im wrong, and you might want to double check. But to my knowledge, the only difference was the manufacturing process. obviously allowing for higher clocks, lowers temps, etc.

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