Does not seem like a reference design card. Most blocks are made for reference design cards as making a block for every custom card design is not economically viable.
Some manufacturers partner up with waterblock makers for custom blocks but you need to buy it as a unit usually like the gigabyte waterforce range of cards
Yea no. Connectors are the same but the wires are shielded better with cat 6.
This allows you to get higher speeds.
Something to do with capacitance between the twisted pairs of wires.
If you dont store user data in any way (not even cookies) i would not bother with the privacy and disclamer. Do display any credit stuff for code you used from others and ofcourse credit yourself id say
the problem with x58 isnt that they cant overclock. its meant for the higher end cpus of that era
the problem is that good boards are still pricy. the cheap boards(sub $100) i dont really thrust when overclocking.
i personally run an asus p6t se wich is decent but still $170 on ebay
i assume your fans are still running. in that case listen if your pump(on the block) is still running.
if this is not the case contact coolermaster for a replacement part, if it is working if got no clue why the drop in performance is so big