Compatibility of the EK-FB ASUS Z270I Strix RGB Monoblock with Z370-I

GrumpyBear17, you are our savior!
Thank you very much for those tests and info!
p.s. You tested with stock termalpads or more thick?

Hey @izlomdoc, I used the pads that came with the z370i, which are 1mm thick. I have some Thermal Grizzly 8w/mK pads on the way which are 1mm thick. 0.5mm won't work, and 2mm looks like it will sacrifice block/IHS contact. 1mm is just right!

Now to figure out how to get a proper RGB strip modded in

Just buy a roll of adressable led) cut to length and solder 3 wires) it wil probbably cost $15-20 at max, led specs are included in the manual for z370i
The rest of adressable rgb strip can be used to light up the rest of the case. The rgb header on Z370i can support up to 60 led's and it is a meter of rgb led)

Great stuff mate, thanks. So we do not need anything extra to fit the monoblock on the Z370I?
What was EK was posting about the inductors coverage then?

EK confirmed cooling the inductors won't affect performance and I agree with this statement. They generate very little (if any) heat on their own. There is no need to provide any sort of cooling to them. I will have access to a thermal camera in about a week, but I'm not sure if I could get a good shot of them due to the monoblock consuming the entire board.. I'd need to run it outside of the system with no GPU connected.

is it only me that wishes they did a acetal version ?

Thanks for the info sir.
So the monoblock's RGB doesn't connect to the motherboard? You connected that tot the Project7 hub as well?

Hey dejoris guy, no problem!

It won't connect to the z370i's 3-pin ADD_HEADER, but it will connect to any 4-pin +GRB header.

Let me tell you something though - you can actually get this block to work with the addressable header. There is an LED strip at the bottom of the block, and you can remove it and replace it with a 5v WS2812B addressable strip (as long as the strip isn't wider than 10mm and taller than 4mm, it will fit in the old spot). From there, you can wire that strip to the ADD_HEADER and it will come up as the ADD STRIP in the ASUS Aura software. The strip you'll have to buy will need to be 60 LED/m, which is the density of the RGB strip that comes with the block. If you want the block to be brighter, you can get a 144led/m one.

I am about to do this shortly, and I'm also converting my EK D5 X-Res into an addressable strip (it's very easy to remove the RGB strip in the D5 X-Res and replace it. Here is a crappy photo I took. The only downside is that all of this needs to be chained and soldered together, so I have a lot of sleeving to do. Doing this means you can do away with a standalone controller, and isn't very difficult to do if you're good with a soldering iron. Let me know if you need more information.

Grumpy

is it the new rgb x-res pump or it is the old one moded?