Can somebody please advise me on what Air cooler will fit on my X399 Aorus Xtreme MB. I brought a CM Wraith Ripper for my Ryzen 2950x, but now I have found out the WR is so big that it blocks off the 1st PCIe slot where my GPU is supposed to go. Which means I have to move my GPU down to the 3rd PCIex16 slot. Which air cooler do people recommend to use on the X399 board for the Threadripper and will NOT cover the 1st PCIe slot. I do not want to install a watercooler, as I prefer air cooled.
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Cheers buddy for the advise. I have looked into this further and Deepcool fryzen or the Noctua NH-U12S TR4 SP3 (120mm fan) or the Noctua NH-U9 TR4 SP3 (92mm fan) seem to be compatible with the X399 Aorus Xtreme MB. Or I stick with the Wraith Ripper and hope I manage to slot in the Daughter board of the Creative labs ZxR underneath the WR where the GPU would have been as this does not require the PCIe slot. Then slot in the Main creative lab board underneath the daughter board in the PCIe 1x1. I also wanted to slot in my PCI USB hub 3.0 from my old desktop to the new one. The reason I do not want a AIO water cooler is because, if for what ever reason the water cooler developed a leak, it could potentially render my PC as useless. Also what is the lifespan of a water cooler. How long do the water blocks last that sit on the CPU. Do the AIO water coolers come with coolant already in them, or do I have to put coolant in it? I have never built a PC which is water cooled.
Ok to clear things up further. I have brought all my components apart from my GPU, which will be 2080 TI as to which one i will go with, it will probably be Asus. Just waiting for issues to be cleared as I know a lot of them were failing. If you look on the Overclockers website there are none in stock. I think they must have pulled them due to the issues people are having. I also will be buying a new sound card, as I mentioned before I will be going with Creative labs ZxR.
So what I have brought is:
Be quiet Dark Base pro 900 Rev 2
Corsair RM1000i
16x2 3200 corsair ddr4 lpx vengeance
1tb ssd
8tb Seagate hdd
Ryzen threadripper 2950x
Gigabyte Aorus X399 Xtreme
CM Wraith Ripper CPU Cooler
So that will be the rig I am building. When I brought the cooler I assumed it would fit. it was only today when I was watching a build on Youtube, using the Wraith ripper it mentioned the fact that it partially covers the top PCIe slot.
As Pastymuncher mentioned earlier, allThreadripper fans are quiet big and are likely to block the PCIe slot. The best way to go would be AIO water cooler for CPU. Going the water cooled way means RAM slots aren't covered, No worries about PCIe slots being covered. What I was thinking is if I can make do with what I already have brought, as Pastymunchers says see how it goes. I will look into Be QuietAIO cpu cooler, unless you can recommend me a good one. If I manage to fit everything in,and my temperatures are ok I will stick with the Wraith Ripper until I Upgrade to a 2990x. Which won't be for a good while. If I do have issues fitting everything in to the PCIe slots then I will have to go with a very good water cooled AIO cpu cooler.
Thanks guys for your help. much appreciated.
So what I have brought is:
Be quiet Dark Base pro 900 Rev 2
Corsair RM1000i
16x2 3200 corsair ddr4 lpx vengeance
1tb ssd
8tb Seagate hdd
Ryzen threadripper 2950x
Gigabyte Aorus X399 Xtreme
CM Wraith Ripper CPU Cooler
So that will be the rig I am building. When I brought the cooler I assumed it would fit. it was only today when I was watching a build on Youtube, using the Wraith ripper it mentioned the fact that it partially covers the top PCIe slot.
As Pastymuncher mentioned earlier, allThreadripper fans are quiet big and are likely to block the PCIe slot. The best way to go would be AIO water cooler for CPU. Going the water cooled way means RAM slots aren't covered, No worries about PCIe slots being covered. What I was thinking is if I can make do with what I already have brought, as Pastymunchers says see how it goes. I will look into Be QuietAIO cpu cooler, unless you can recommend me a good one. If I manage to fit everything in,and my temperatures are ok I will stick with the Wraith Ripper until I Upgrade to a 2990x. Which won't be for a good while. If I do have issues fitting everything in to the PCIe slots then I will have to go with a very good water cooled AIO cpu cooler.
Thanks guys for your help. much appreciated.
Thankyou Doyll for the advise. I don't think I will be overclocking my system. I just use optimized settings in the bios. I think of it as it just reducing the lifespan of the components you over clock, just to make it a little faster, and also producing excessive heat. I have looked at some pictures with X399 boards with threadripper fans, even the ones that clear the PCIe slot, it still seems very tight when it has a GPU in it. I am starting to think that, they designed the board like this, as they expected the CPU to be water cooled rather than air cooled. They must know how thick the new GPU cards are, and how close and tight it would have been to cooling fans, and in some cases, as I have now seen, not been able to fit a GPU in the first slot, because the fans are to big. But how ever water cooled, nothing is covered.
I could but I have other stuff I need to fit in, like a creative labs ZxR sound card which has 2 boards, and My USB 3.0 Hub from my old PC. I will only properly know when I start fitting stuff in. I am hoping that the daughter board of the sound card, although it doesn't actually need a PCIe slot it will still screw in under the Wraith ripper. I am just a little concerned that being the GPU is so low to the base of the tower and near the PSU, although the PSU has a cover on it heat still raises up and may affect the running temperature of the GPU.
I don't really want to stick anything under the GPU as it will be so close to the base and PSU.I'd prefer GPU cooling fans get as much air as possible without being hamperdd I am pretty confident I should be ok. I just need to purchase my GPU once their in stock.