Greetings everyone,
I'm looking for a replacement cooler with a baseplate that will fit properly onto a Gigabyte DS3 rev 3.3 board's CPU socket. I just went 10 rounds with a Tuniq Tower and it was just too large. The problem lies in the fact that I have these 9 wonderful capacitors which border two sides of the CPU socket. If the heatsink's baseplate is too big (i.e. Tuniq Tower), then these capacitors end up getting mashed beneath it.
The CPU being used with this board is an E6420 and the case is an Antec 900. I'd like to be able to run around 3 to 3.2ghz, have enough room for a northbridge cooler such as the Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II (or other if something works better in cooperation with a specific cooler), and possibly the side case fan if I'd even need it at that point. I'm also running an 8800GTS in this build if that comes into play anywhere with the heat equation.
So far some of the coolers I've been researching are the Zalman 9700, Big Typhoon VX, and Arctic Freezer Pro 7. While finding the dimensions of the cooler itself aren't too difficult, finding the size of the cooler's baseplate has been another story for me.
I've attached an image of where these capacitors stand in relation to the CPU socket for further examination.
Thanks in advance,
WH
I'm looking for a replacement cooler with a baseplate that will fit properly onto a Gigabyte DS3 rev 3.3 board's CPU socket. I just went 10 rounds with a Tuniq Tower and it was just too large. The problem lies in the fact that I have these 9 wonderful capacitors which border two sides of the CPU socket. If the heatsink's baseplate is too big (i.e. Tuniq Tower), then these capacitors end up getting mashed beneath it.
The CPU being used with this board is an E6420 and the case is an Antec 900. I'd like to be able to run around 3 to 3.2ghz, have enough room for a northbridge cooler such as the Thermaltake Extreme Spirit II (or other if something works better in cooperation with a specific cooler), and possibly the side case fan if I'd even need it at that point. I'm also running an 8800GTS in this build if that comes into play anywhere with the heat equation.
So far some of the coolers I've been researching are the Zalman 9700, Big Typhoon VX, and Arctic Freezer Pro 7. While finding the dimensions of the cooler itself aren't too difficult, finding the size of the cooler's baseplate has been another story for me.
I've attached an image of where these capacitors stand in relation to the CPU socket for further examination.
Thanks in advance,
WH