My build includes:
Corsair iCUE 5000x case (~175mm clearance from CPU)
Intel i7-12700k CPU
ASUS TUF Gaming H670-Pro w/wifi D4 (min. base clearance ~25mm? to avoid the MB's edge heatsinks, max. width ~100mm? to avoid the heatsinks and slot)
Patriot Viper Steel 2x32GB UDIMMs
M.2 SSD in the slot by the CPU
XFX Speedster Swift 319 16 GB PCIe 4.0 Radeon RX 6800 XT, model RX-68XTAQ (will probably be in the slot by the CPU)
I'm looking for a cooler that is compatible with my setup, but the options are hard to determine. The cooler would need to be able to fit in my MB without interfering with the heatsinks, RAM, 1 x M.2 22110 PCIe 4.0 x4 mode slot and the 1 x PCIe 5.0 x16 (CPU) - ASUS SafeSlot. It seems that I'd either need a cooler with very tall clearance above the landscape before it gets big, which is fine as long as it doesn't prevent access to whatever is below (removing and replacing the cooler every time I need to go "under the hood" is something I'd like to avoid), or I'd have to be constrained to an area of about L 100mm x W 100 mm x H 175 mm x 25mm base clearance.
I need a cooler that will not prevent the use/access of any slots. I only saw one from Be Quiet! that appeared to match (Pure Rock Slim 2) and the Gammaxx C40 from Deep Cool. I'd have to wade through a lot of pages to figure out which might be good from Noctua, which presented a LONG list without specs. I have no idea which would actually keep my system cool enough. I'm not planning on overclocking.
Thanks for any help!
Note: I emailed the 3 companies today to ask for their recommendations, but I'm willing to consider other brands, so here I am.
Corsair iCUE 5000x case (~175mm clearance from CPU)
Intel i7-12700k CPU
ASUS TUF Gaming H670-Pro w/wifi D4 (min. base clearance ~25mm? to avoid the MB's edge heatsinks, max. width ~100mm? to avoid the heatsinks and slot)
Patriot Viper Steel 2x32GB UDIMMs
M.2 SSD in the slot by the CPU
XFX Speedster Swift 319 16 GB PCIe 4.0 Radeon RX 6800 XT, model RX-68XTAQ (will probably be in the slot by the CPU)
I'm looking for a cooler that is compatible with my setup, but the options are hard to determine. The cooler would need to be able to fit in my MB without interfering with the heatsinks, RAM, 1 x M.2 22110 PCIe 4.0 x4 mode slot and the 1 x PCIe 5.0 x16 (CPU) - ASUS SafeSlot. It seems that I'd either need a cooler with very tall clearance above the landscape before it gets big, which is fine as long as it doesn't prevent access to whatever is below (removing and replacing the cooler every time I need to go "under the hood" is something I'd like to avoid), or I'd have to be constrained to an area of about L 100mm x W 100 mm x H 175 mm x 25mm base clearance.
I need a cooler that will not prevent the use/access of any slots. I only saw one from Be Quiet! that appeared to match (Pure Rock Slim 2) and the Gammaxx C40 from Deep Cool. I'd have to wade through a lot of pages to figure out which might be good from Noctua, which presented a LONG list without specs. I have no idea which would actually keep my system cool enough. I'm not planning on overclocking.
Thanks for any help!
Note: I emailed the 3 companies today to ask for their recommendations, but I'm willing to consider other brands, so here I am.
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