[NAME]    . . . and noticed that there are some missing components on the motherboard.  I'm pretty sure your mobo is not missing any parts my friend. From what I have seen, there is nothing to cool above the CPU, and the "wrap around" style VRM heatsink is just to get added heat dissipation with more fin stack area. The portion of the VRM heatsink above the CPU is connected to the main section of the VRM heatsink with a copper heatpipe, which will transfer heat away from things that actually need to be cooled. That copper heatpipe appears to sit just above the mobo when mounted . . . so not touching any solder contacts (or anything else). EDIT: You used a bad word, plpe, in the body of your post. Please clean up the body before posting.           what a clown show [IMAGE]
I opened up the case of my R11 to see if there were any VRM heatsinks before installing a liquid cooler for the CPU and noticed that there are some missing components on the motherboard.  The L shaped heatsink would cover this area, but there's nothing to cool.  In the R11 manual, the motherboard is shown to be missing these components too, but I've seen other pictures of opened R11's with the VRM heatsinks that clearly has components under there. Could anyone shine some light as to why some boards have some and some don't, and if I'd damage anything by installing the L-shaped heatsink over the empty part?  I can see some solder contacts, I'm worried that placing the heatsink over it would possibly short them out. [IMAGE]
Aurora R11, VRM heatsinks covering missing component?