SIN, he wants the other side.
Niku, its 8" from the tray to the inner lip. I've got almost 2" to spare with my D14.
ok cool thanks for the info it helps. i'm still questioning if i'm going to have enough room
http://www.corsair.com/en-ca/carbide-series-air-540-high-airflow-atx-cube-case
Product information tech specs page says max CPU cooler height is 170mm. The PDF manual (downloads section) says 180mm.
Either way, plenty of room for tall CPU coolers.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185143
If that's your cooler, it will definitely fit.
the cooler fits no problem but when I put the fan on it, which I mean i'ma gonna need a fan, it sticks up higher than the heatsink by anther 1/2-ish inch. its not normal for it but that's what has to happen because I cant mount it like they intend because the MOSFET heatsinks are in the way, the area around the cpu in my set up is very....busy... any way with how the fan is mounted all the fins still have air flow all my overlap is just on top of the heatsink instead of evenly spaced like how it was intended
that coupled with a lot of places saying 180mm max height for a heatsink, more often that not I notice they forget to include the mobo being on stand offs and the thickness of the cpu in the socket. an AMD cpu is generally thicker than an intel cpu, partly because of the retention system for the processor. AMD uses legs on the processor intel has legs in the socket that lay pretty flat when you put the processor in and clamp it down.
so that 180mm might have shrank to 160mm which gives me 1mm of clearance for the heatsink. i'm not jumping any ones case about it but I wanted a straight from a owners perspective.
I know the 750D is wide enough because its about 9 1/4" thick, the 540's a different situation so that's why I asked
side note, fedex tried to deliver my 3rd attempt at the deep silence 6 less than 5 minutes after I left for work. my hopes are pretty low that this survived. my thinking is, the more time it spends on the truck, the more jacked up its going to be. my prime 2 day got held up an extra day so that was 3 days in transit, then the attempted delivery today so that was an extra unload and load into the truck, and then when it got back to their base station thing theres another extra unload and will probably be loaded up in the morning to be unloaded again. plus all that time in the back of the delivery truck.
i'm thinkin I am going to be opening a box of dust....but who knows