Great! Now let's discuss the design of the unit and keep the spirits up
The overclocker will probably not be very satisfied with this unit, due to the lack of forced airflow. The mosfets on my board (nf7-s 2.0) stays at approx 1-2 degrees above room temperature when running the CPU at default voltage (but how often does that occur?
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My mosfets maxed out at about 120 degrees when using 2.1V, and that was with fans running in the case. However, will this be a problem in this case?
At 2.1V the temperature of the side panels will be ridiculous, if the heatpipes manages to transfer that amount of heat. The southbridge, clockchip and graphic RAM will most likely become very hot if you overclock the system, and won't have a forced airflow to aid in cooling.
However, maybe the natural airflow will be enough to keep the heat from these components away during normal operation and slight overclocking?
The multiple "thermal breaks" may or may not be a problem, we all know that you loose some cooling capacity when having a thermal joint, no matter how good your TIM is. The question is how much. It will be very interesting to see some real performance data on the final unit.
Oops, got to go! I'll check back later!