Dat coverage !!!
Stilt... you madman !! Doing the proper engineering companies should have done !
Took a look at the cooler you reference.. Zero gaps on the heatpipes exiting off the contact plate :
So, the whole contact plate has transfer heat capability. This is very much unlike the Noctua that seem to have expanded the contact plate and done nothing to ensure the heatpipes contacted the expanded surface. The sheer number of pipes on that thing !!!
BTW, there seems to be a clearance issues w/ the Asus board and Noctua :
@4:51. Noctua's fin stack covers a whole PCIE lane. This issue is likely not present on :
I recall AMD giving these guys a nogo zone. I'm not sure how Asus managed to design a board with the 1st PCIE slot so ass close to the socket on
an E-atx board where they have more room than everyone else. So yeah, Taichi looks more official by the day