Small cooler recommendations

[chrismox]

I recently bought some fresh parts to upgrade a PC and have run into an issue with cooler clearance, so am looking for some suggestions.

Full spec here - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/new-pc-spec-check.19007675/

The motherboard (Sapphire Nitro+ B850M WiFi) and cooler (Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE CPU Cooler) appear to be incompatible in that the cooler interferes with the PCI-E slot that I need to use for my graphics card, see below.

https://i.~ibb.co~/ymVMm7Jc/IMG-3326.jpg

There doesn't appear to be an option to rotate the cooler by 90 degrees, so the clearance can't be changed other than by replacing the Peerless Assassin with a smaller cooler.

The graphics card (Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9070 XT) needs about 6mm clearance above the PCI-E slot, so I'd be looking for a cooler that is 100mm wide at the most.

I'm cooling a 9800X3D, any suggestions would be welcome.

 

[chrismox]

Cancel all that! I hadn't appreciated that the Peerless Assassin is asymmetric. I rotated it by 180 degrees and now have plenty of clearance.

It might've been helpful for the installation instructions to point this out.

 

[mark 11:11]

Cancel all that! I hadn't appreciated that the Peerless Assassin is asymmetric. I rotated it by 180 degrees and now have plenty of clearance.

It might've been helpful for the installation instructions to point this out.

im about to have a similar issue with the noctua ndh15 and the sapphire purer b850 board
my plan is to rotate the gpu 90 degrees and go verticle or jsut use a riser and move the gpu down a slot or two [and probably move the problem further across the board lol]
so im going to have to take drastic measures as i say lol