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I don't have experience with AM5, but I wonder if the U12A would fit. It's like a D15 that is built around 120mm fans instead of 140mm. Another option might be the C14S. It is a solid downdraft cooler that also has an offset, iirc.
Turns out even U12A hangs over! There is no usable air cooler that I would put on a 600$ motherboard with a 600$ CPU. Even nh-d15s hangs over! What the fuck?!
Ended up buying Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 for considerably cheaper than nh-d15. Get this: it has the offset ability as well.
Turns out even U12A hangs over!
Bro, are you building ITX? ๐
Glad you found a cooler that works. I have an ITX build, so I know first hand the difficulty of finding parts that fit.
Asus x670e gene is an M-ATX board but it is geared towards overclocking. They probably didnt take air coolers into account. It only has one x16 reeally close to the CPU. Also the ONLY PCIE-5 M-ATX board in europe.
I didnt expect this at all.
That's good that the x16 is so close to the CPU, even though it's been a headache. Physical distance does affect its performance (though by how much, I can't say).
Good point of view, I missed that being upset all night. :D
I think the board is pretty well thought out when it comes to that. It has a ginormous SSD expansion card/heatsink, only 2 RAM slots as 4 is not really useful, reportedly very terrific VRMs. Though it had its price.
An mATX with two RAM slots? It really is sounding like an ITX board, lol. Is the primary SSD slot PCIe5 also?
Maybe. But on the other hand:
- Current zen4 CPUs have issues with 4 sticks.
- 4 sticks do not mean a substantial performance difference as it will use same amount of channels(maybe even worse as the clocks are lower?).
- Every singular RAM stick is already technically dual channel so 2 slots are already quad.
- 96GB maximal memory is supported now. Probably even more in the future.
- Also this board can overclock to and use 8000Mhz sticks without batting an eye. Although not that useful yet.
There are 2 PCIe5 SSD slots and 1 PCIe4.
Noctua has a pretty decent compatibility list. You can plug in your motherboard and get compatible coolers
Yeah I ended up taking a peek. Literally NOTHING was compatible that I would put on a 7950x3d. It has such a miniscule headroom, not even the nh-d15s, or even some of their smaller coolers would go on it. Ended up with Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420.
Been looking at matx boards recently, and the MSI boards seem to have their first pcie slot a bit lower than the others
Not really an option to swap at this point anymore. Well whatever, Im more satisfied with the cooling abilities of the AIO anyway.
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