will a Noctua NH-D14 fit on a MSI x99s Gaming 9 AC Motherboard

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johnplow

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Hey Guys,

I was looking to upgrade my current rig with the new Haswell-e CPU set up. I have picked out most of my parts except the CPU Cooler itself. I was originally going to go with a corsair H110i AIO water cooler but I do not think my case will hold it. I have an Antec P193 and while the fans up top are 140mm i dont think i will have the 3 inches of clearance that the radiator will need.

So i was looking at the Noctua NH-D14. I think i can fit it inside my case (the cooler I have in there now is about 6 inches off of the mother board) but What i dont know is if it will fit on the mother board. Is this cooler set up to be used on a larger board or will it fit on the new LGA 2011-3 boards?

I am mostly a software guy so I dont know much about hardware, especially CPU coolers. I just know not to stick with the stock intel coolers =P.

Any help you guys could give would be great.

Thanks in advance!
 
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I just built a pc with the Noctua DH-D14. My mobo was ASUS x99-deluxe. My memory didn't have a heat spreader, so it fit fine. However, with a heatspreader it might not have.

The problems: Setting the d14 so it blew out the back, I had to remove the front fan and remount it backwards on the back. No big deal, just fiddly with those clips as the fan itself had to be flipped to keep the airflow direction proper.

The ASUS number 1 pcie slot was just under the edge of the dh14 heatsink. No problem for me as I'm only running a single video card, but if you were doing an sli, you may wish you could use that slot. Again, I have no idea if the layout of the MSI and the ASUS are similar enough to matter.

I found out that the product comes without the 2011-3 bracket. another 8 bucks, luckily a little pc company near me was a noctua reseller as the one thing I didn't want to do was wait another week, once I was ready to build.

Bob
 
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