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I'm building some computers for a customer across the country.
Because I have to ship them so far, I really want to get heatsinks that are bolt-on, to minimize the possibility of the heatsink rocking and cracking the CPU core.
The motherboard I will be using is the A7N8X Deluxe. The socket is right at the top of the board and there isn't much clearance between it and the bottom of the power supply.
The bolt-on heatsinks that I have seen from Thermalright (my favorite heatsink manufacturer), all orient the heatsink in such a way that the fins would be pointing up, not sideways like the clip-on versions. This would interefere with the bottom of the PSU.
Has anyone had this issue and discovered a bolt-on heatsink, usable on this board, that will not clear the top of the motherboard, when mounted?
The heatsink must be relatively cheap ($30 or less) and quiet. I like Thermalright's heatsinks because I can run a single Panaflo L1A on them and they cool great, with very little noise.
Here's a pic on Asus' website:
Because I have to ship them so far, I really want to get heatsinks that are bolt-on, to minimize the possibility of the heatsink rocking and cracking the CPU core.
The motherboard I will be using is the A7N8X Deluxe. The socket is right at the top of the board and there isn't much clearance between it and the bottom of the power supply.
The bolt-on heatsinks that I have seen from Thermalright (my favorite heatsink manufacturer), all orient the heatsink in such a way that the fins would be pointing up, not sideways like the clip-on versions. This would interefere with the bottom of the PSU.
Has anyone had this issue and discovered a bolt-on heatsink, usable on this board, that will not clear the top of the motherboard, when mounted?
The heatsink must be relatively cheap ($30 or less) and quiet. I like Thermalright's heatsinks because I can run a single Panaflo L1A on them and they cool great, with very little noise.
Here's a pic on Asus' website: