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Already posted this in another thread, but it seems more appropriate here. Where is airflow going to end up going here? There's already been significant heatsink compatibility issues with the current RoG Strix boards if I'm not mistaken due to massive RoG heatsinks. F'ing awful design here ASUS (you bunch of logo whores).

Putting this thing in a < 10L SFF case, the I/O is pretty much going block any reasonable airflow in two directions. In the case of a downdraft cooler you're going to get a massive pocket of hot air around your cooler which will likely kill the Delta-T in your fin stack. Even putting a smaller tower cooler on this board (ie. NH-D9L) is going to be like cutting the legs off a racehorse as you'll likely be blocking the airflow from the bottom part of your impeller considerably. Guess it's time to buy a 150 dollar AIO cooler from ASUS.

All behold the Great Wall of Taiwan, the only I/O shield and daughterboard combo visible from space!

<blockquote data-quote="Kmpkt" data-source="post: 149077" data-attributes="member: 206">Already posted this in another thread, but it seems more appropriate here. Where is airflow going to end up going here? There's already been significant heatsink compatibility issues with the current RoG Strix boards if I'm not mistaken due to massive RoG heatsinks. F'ing awful design here ASUS (you bunch of logo whores).Putting this thing in a &lt; 10L SFF case, the I/O&nbsp; is pretty much going block any reasonable airflow in two directions. In the case of a downdraft cooler you're going to get a massive pocket of hot air around your cooler which will likely kill the Delta-T in your fin stack. Even putting a smaller tower cooler on this board (ie. NH-D9L) is going to be like cutting the legs off a racehorse as you'll likely be blocking the airflow from the bottom part of your impeller considerably. Guess it's time to buy a 150 dollar AIO cooler from ASUS.All behold the Great Wall of Taiwan, the only I/O shield and daughterboard combo visible from space!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kmpkt, post: 149077, member: 206"] Already posted this in another thread, but it seems more appropriate here. Where is airflow going to end up going here? There's already been significant heatsink compatibility issues with the current RoG Strix boards if I'm not mistaken due to massive RoG heatsinks. F'ing awful design here ASUS (you bunch of logo whores). Putting this thing in a < 10L SFF case, the I/O is pretty much going block any reasonable airflow in two directions. In the case of a downdraft cooler you're going to get a massive pocket of hot air around your cooler which will likely kill the Delta-T in your fin stack. Even putting a smaller tower cooler on this board (ie. NH-D9L) is going to be like cutting the legs off a racehorse as you'll likely be blocking the airflow from the bottom part of your impeller considerably. Guess it's time to buy a 150 dollar AIO cooler from ASUS. All behold the Great Wall of Taiwan, the only I/O shield and daughterboard combo visible from space! [/QUOTE]

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