cooler for a 3930k? under £50?

Finally, I have an Asus P9X79 motherboard, with 8 RAM slots. Do you think the K2 will fit in without blocking all of these slots? I also plan on running HD6950's in crossfire, or GTX 670s in a few months. In the third PCI-E slot, I'll be running an Asus Xonar D2 sound card. Do you think 2 GPU's, that Soundcard (which is around the same size as a GPU, but is further down the board) will fit with a K2? I'm tempted to just get the i30 cooler, or something smaller, due to this worry. Also due to the budget I have. But if the k2 will fit effectively 3 cards and 8 ram sticks in, I'll get it.
 
K2 on ASUS board with RipJawZ modules:

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More pics:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18415514
 
thanks for that helios, but in the pics, it seems theres only 4 ram slots. my board has 4 on one side, 4 on the other of the cpu socket. if you take a look at this link, http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_2011/P9X79/ do you think I could run 2 GPU's (in the slots closest to each other) and 1 xonar d2 (in the slot nearest where the cpu cooler is) and have all 8 slots filled? with something like the k2 in? I'm not sure, I may have to get a small cooler if not.
ive emailed you for some help mate :)
 
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My Rampage has 8 slots as well, 4 on each side if you look carefully.

And yes, you'll be able to run a card in the top PCIe slot just fine. If anything, the top PCIe slot on your motherboard is further away from the CPU socket than on my motherboard. So if it's ok on mine, you'll be fine.

Oh btw, for SLI/XFire, it will be best to put the gcards in the blue slots. The you can use your soundcard in the small PCIe x1 slots. I wouldn't recommend running a gcard in the bottom slot if that's what you were planning. It's far too close to the connectors at the bottom plus the colour may indicate that it won't operate at full x16 in a dual card setup.
 
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squarehead94 said:
Ah its the pci version, can it run in the pcie slot or not? Will there bw the room to run it in the pci slot? I cant think wjere the slot for pci is lol
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It won't work in a PCIe slot. You would have to use the PCI slot but that's below the second blue PCIe slot which would mean you can't use it for a second card. There are two solutions, the first being that you install the D2 and then put the second gcard in the lowermost white PCIe slot but the problem there is that the card might then be limited to 8x (not a massive problem). The second solution is to swap the D2 for a D2X (Member's market?).
 
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