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Can heavy CPU coolers (such as the noctua nh-d15) damage a motherboard in the long?

Does a large tower heat-sink will put such a stress on the motherboard that will effect its longevity?

I want my motherboard to least basically for 5-7 years and I wonder if the benefit of horizontal motherboard case like the HAF XB EVO is worth giving up on many benefits of that a PC case like the R5 have over him , just for the horizontal motherboard layout..


Can you share me some of your personal experience with heavy heat-sinks in the long run ?

 
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I've used some pretty heavy tower coolers and haven't had issues with standard ATX cases. Generally I replace my system board every 3 years or so though. But all of my previous builds are still around in one form or another.

Massive Dynatron Genius cooler on my Athlon X2 still chugging along. Tuniq Tower Extreme 120 on my old i7-950 also still up and running (Though it does have ram issues, seems to be related to general motherboard issues)

I've heard a lot of stories on here about over-tightening / over-compression bending LGA socket pins or causing ram to not work (board warping). But those are usually extreme cases and occasionally when people put parts (retention brackets) on upside down.

I would probably do custom water cooling...
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In my experience ive never had a large heatsink that was just sitting there do damage, tho take precautions if u have to transport the computer somewhere. also theres nothing really preventing you from running a normal case horizontal i have my Haf-x lying horizontal
 
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I've used some pretty heavy tower coolers and haven't had issues with standard ATX cases. Generally I replace my system board every 3 years or so though. But all of my previous builds are still around in one form or another.

Massive Dynatron Genius cooler on my Athlon X2 still chugging along. Tuniq Tower Extreme 120 on my old i7-950 also still up and running (Though it does have ram issues, seems to be related to general motherboard issues)

I've heard a lot of stories on here about over-tightening / over-compression bending LGA socket pins or causing ram to not work (board warping). But those are usually extreme cases and occasionally when people put parts (retention brackets) on upside down.

I would probably do custom water cooling before using a Noctua NH-D15/D14 or Phanteks TC14PE myself. I'm not much into extreme overclocking. I prefer stability.

 
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The short answers are yes and yes, but not enough to matter unless you move the machine around a lot.

I've moved apartments twice and dragged my current machine to a few Lan parties over the last 2 years with a Scythe Mugen 3 hanging off the board and it runs like a champ (ATX mid-tower).

Having said that, I'd prefer a water-cooled or smaller air cooler on a PC I plan on lugging around.
 
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Thank you all for sharing this information with my , i got the noctua nh-u14s , but even with this guy I would prefer an horizontal layout something about horizontal layout feels really "natural" to me ( one that is not going to buy a new mobo in 3 years and even 5)

Do you think I should go with the HAF XB EVO , or should I just buy an ATX case the FD R5 with better features and lay it horizontally ? ( there won't be any problem with using an ATX case in a way he is not meant to be used, like pressure on the motherboard from other places for so other weird problem like squeezeing PSU cables too hard lol ?
 
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