You'll have to reseat the heatsinks on the Maximus SE because waterblock has horrible contact on the heatsink. Why don't you get the non SE and just get chipset waterblocks? I love the EK plexi waterblock. Grab them while you can because those sticks were out of stock for awhile. They ran out of high binned D9's but are coming back soon. Once I get things up and running I'll show how high they can go. 1275mhz 5-5-5-15 on 2.2v all day. A guy from TPU had them running 1400mhz on 2.3v