This is actually pretty nice to read. For someone who has never water cooled (me), and thinks a kit like the Aquabox is absolutely hideous (don't be offended. I don't mind if you think my taste sucks ), it looks promising.
I do have a question though. I'm thinking about an A8N32-SLI for the future, while an A8N-SLI is arriving on my doorstep on Thursday. Well, silly me wanted a Lian-freaking-enormous-mount-my-motherboard-upsidedown-Li case (PC-V2000 plus), and that kinda destroys the whole heatpipe idea. Needless to say they're coming off. But, that kinda limits me in the chipset cooling department due to to the second evga 7800gtx ko acs3.
Would it be wise to attempt to use a unit like this to cool the A8N-SLI chipset as well, or, dare I even think, the Northbridge AND MCP of the A8N32-SLI? It would be rediculous to run two of these just for the chipset (not to mention, WON'T happen). But I worry about a stand alone HS between those two GTXs...