High end air on mITX

gropingmantis

gropingmantis

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Is it possible? Assuming the case will accept it.

Thinking about a future project, will things like Megahalems or D14 fit a mITX board. I've been looking at dimensions all afternoon but can never find out the crucial distance of PCI-e to CPU center.

Can anyone help/advise?
 
Yeah the Foxconn seems to have decent placement but thats not what I'm intending to use and the Intel and Gigabyte boards are all really close to the PCI lane as you said.

I get the feeling that you could mount a Mega on there as long as the orientation is correct and you only used one fan.
 
Excuse me whilst I hijack my own thread couldn't really see the need for a whole new thread though I may put one in cooling.

Does anyone have an opinion on THE best top down cooler at the moment?
I'm guessing the shootout will be between the NH-C14, NH-C12P, AXP-140 and the Shuriken.
But which one is the best?
 
Well here comes the thread from the dead.

My Q06 is on its way to me as we speak. This means I can fit whatever cooler I damn well please...almost. Because nobody has seen a P67 ITX board and the likely contenders for one are Gigabyte, who love to put their socket as close to the PCI-e lane as possible (nice one Gigabyte), we have to assume that whatever cooler I choose has to fit on a board with that kind of socket placement.

So I've narrowed it down to 2 coolers:

Thermalright HR-02, like gatecrasherlok above, This will sit like a hulk on top of the board looking massive and cooling the CPU very well...but nothing else.

OR

Thermalright AXP-140, which will blow top down, not as good CPU cooling but it will be cooling the other components which people have hinted at being important if you want to OC on an ITX board.

Any thoughts on these two or suggestions for other coolers that will fit silly socket placement?
 
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