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Lga 1700 coolers

Majek

Majek

Majek

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Hi everyone,

I have seen discussions regarding lga 1700 compatible coolers in various Alder Lake threads but I thought it would be useful to have one place where we could post information about coolers only. I am really surprised that all/most manufacturers don't have anything on the market yet. Various shops don't even have lga 1700 socket filtering options for coolers at the moment.

So what cooling can I get off the shelf right now - air, aio, custom - anything goes? Which manufacturers offer free/paid upgrade kits etc.?

If mods believe this is in the wrong place, please move - I thought it would have more exposure in the CPU section.

Thank you!
 
Just picked up the Noctua NH-U12A chromax and it comes with 1700 fittings. Noctua offer a free 1700 kit for its noctua coolers with proof of purchase of cooler and a 1700 compatible mobo.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Dumb ass Asus, Z690 ROG STRIX Z690-A GAMING was my choice but it's not compatible with nearly all coolers due to VRM heatsink height.
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youll need to go AIO with that. You may get it to work using a small air cooler and just a 12400f or 12600k but if you want a higher model CPU you need D15 cooling or better and that's not going to fit in many z690 ASUS boards. Could always just not buy an ASUS board, that's probably the cheapest option is to just switch to a different brand
 
Unfortunately ASUS screwed up with their board designs and they caused the unwritten rules to break.

a Cooler being able to claim "LGA1700" compatible doesn't mean it's compatible with your motherboard. In the past there wasn't too much to worry about it but that's out the window
 
Grim5 said:
youll need to go AIO with that. You may get it to work using a small air cooler and just a 12400f or 12600k but if you want a higher model CPU you need D15 cooling or better and that's not going to fit in many z690 ASUS boards. Could always just not buy an ASUS board, that's probably the cheapest option is to just switch to a different brand
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Noctua compatibility center states that their NH-U12A cooler does work with the I7 12700k AMD i9-12900k with good over clocking headroom.
 
Grim5 said:
Unfortunately ASUS screwed up with their board designs and they caused the unwritten rules to break.

a Cooler being able to claim "LGA1700" compatible doesn't mean it's compatible with your motherboard. In the past there wasn't too much to worry about it but that's out the window
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Just this, I am so tempted to cancel this board and get something else completely avoiding Asus i the process, I don't know what other boards support the big Noctua coolers, Asus have **** on Noctua right here with this release of their boards.
 
V F said:
Check out the depth for the Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Xtreme. https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z690-AORUS-XTREME-rev-10#kf
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Yep, not many air coolers gonna fit on that surely.

Makes me wonder why the M2 heatsinks on z690 are massive and why RAM needs active cooling.

Does this men pcie5 SSD's are expected to run even hotter than gen 4 and same for DDR5?

The only saving grace for this particular board that 99% of people who buy the Gigabyte Extreme would not even consider air cooling, most would be water cooling.

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