Thanks for the insight. I'm not going to pretend I know all about everything on a motherboard, but it's good to hear a reasonable explanation for something I don't understand... as opposed to... well, you know.

Heh, I'm a software engineer and pretty good at my job. Swing and a miss.

That doesn't sound like an aspergers kind of thing to say at all. RAAARGH I'mma beat you up mysterious stranger on the Internet who I've never seen! You sound like a twelve year old.

Says the guy named fuckmeimnaked and trying to make a serious case for overpriced functionless crap. Go take your aspergers meds.

Smart enough not to devolve into impotent rage when someone tells me something I don't want to hear.

Except that it's really all just for show. You might as well put a spoiler on your case... it'll have just as much real effect.

Yeaaaaah, sorry, I don't care for funneling water through things strictly for the sake of funneling water through things. See, I spend my money on parts that actually matter.

Which needs water cooling (or anything more than passive cooling for that matter) why?

Not all of it.

"thats not where the gpus are located nowadays"

What I'm wondering is why you would ever need to water cool a motherboard in the first place. With an on-mobo IGP, I could at least conceive of an insane reason someone could find a use for it. Otherwise, I've got nothing.

In which case you ironically are obscuring the guts of your computer by doing so.

I guess that's useful if like... you are overclocking your integrated graphics processor (wait... they usually put those on the processor now don't they...) or something.

Both. It's the Mystique of Motherboards.

Heh, well, I'm sure parts of it are... like the various metal fasteners that make things look like the Bat Mobile. Some of what you see there are actually just elaborate looking heatsyncs, which while the flourishes probably serve no purpose, having them there in general does.

Hey, I'm guilty too. I bought my processor and motherboard in a combo and saw the savings of $100 and completely ignored the fact that the motherboard was listed as worth $100 more than some other motherboards with similar features simply because it looked cool.

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You are a few years late on noticing this Plunkett. Mobo makers have been adding random bits of metal to motherboards in an attempt to make them look more like... well, the way the internals of cars look today with all the covers and such over parts under the hood for a while now. It's mostly functionless. But some…

I wish I could find that one shirt Kotaku posted with tanooki Mario sitting on top of a knocked over trash can with a couple normal tanooki in the picture as well. That one was tops.

Romancing SaGa wasn't released in the west unless you count the PS2 remake unfortunately. And yeah, you are right, it was way more traditional fantasy.