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Originally Posted by JamesAvery22

The VRMs, caps, inductors all have acceptable temperature tolerances. Do more than just the "finger test" and find out how hot the board and components actually are. If your PC is stable and the temps arent bad then why worry?

The CPU waterblock not providing air flow over the surrounding components is hardly a flaw in water cooling. Many boards need next to 0 air flow around the VRMs. If your motherboard requires airflow on the VRM then it sounds like a personal problem Replacing a heatsink/fan combo with a waterblock means you'll have reduced air turbulence around the surrounding components. Less fans = less air flow. Thats sort of common sense, don't know what else to tell you.

Thermalright makes after market VRM heatsinks that allow you to mount fans on them. Heck you could probably mount some 40mm fans on the heatsinks you have now. As I said above though, if the temps aren't too high and you're system is stable, why bother?

Ummm actually newer motherboards need air flow near the VRM's as they employ far more of them cramped up closely together.

Asus have developed a heat pipe design to cool their's. When using watercooling Asus have bundled (with more of their boards) a fan that mounts ontop of the heatpipe cooler.