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Maximus VII Hero with Hyper 212 Evo
Good day.
I plan on getting an Asus Hero VII board, and use air cooling on the CPU. That board has all I need, but I am worried about the heatsinks that are over the voltage regulators around the CPU. They /look/ huge, and I am afraid they will get in the way of air coolers, specifically the Hyper 212 Evo that I have (and I suspect many other coolers). The 212 is 37mm high before the fins appear and it becomes wider, so if the heat sinks are less than ~40mm high, I think we're all good. But I downloaded Asus's User Manual and it doesn't say how high the sinks are. I looked on the AsusTek forums and in Google, but haven't found a good answer for this question. Someone asked this on TomsHardware, but the answer he got makes no sense :-( Can anyone help? Thank you much. Best Regards, -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Member-+-David-Suzuki-Foundation/EFF/Planetary-Society-+- oO-( )-Oo Three stages of sex: Tri-weekly, Try weekly, Try weakly. |
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Maximus VII Hero with Hyper 212 Evo
B00ze/Empire wrote:
Good day. I plan on getting an Asus Hero VII board, and use air cooling on the CPU. That board has all I need, but I am worried about the heatsinks that are over the voltage regulators around the CPU. They /look/ huge, and I am afraid they will get in the way of air coolers, specifically the Hyper 212 Evo that I have (and I suspect many other coolers). The 212 is 37mm high before the fins appear and it becomes wider, so if the heat sinks are less than ~40mm high, I think we're all good. But I downloaded Asus's User Manual and it doesn't say how high the sinks are. I looked on the AsusTek forums and in Google, but haven't found a good answer for this question. Someone asked this on TomsHardware, but the answer he got makes no sense :-( Can anyone help? Thank you much. Best Regards, The pictures on Newegg are a little too fuzzy for an estimate. But this one is pretty clear. http://wccftech.com/asus-z97-motherb...ries-detailed/ http://cdn4.wccftech.com/wp-content/...r1-635x423.jpg It looks to me, like someone is trying to bring the top of that two-piece heatsink, to the same height as an installed (regular) DIMM PCB. The way they make and "dress" these now, they're not content to use the simplest geometric shapes (flat top), so you cannot be absolutely certain of the dimensions. If I use an engineering drawing of a DIMM socket, the clearance there suggests 26mm to the latch (rotational clearance zone). It's 22.8mm in the closed position. These come in all sizes though, with standard, low profile, very low profile, and I assume I got a standard one in the following document. It seems to line up roughly with my Asus board from August of this year (24mm by measurement). (It's hard to see in there, and I couldn't really see the plastic scale all that well.) http://www.molex.com/pdm_docs/sd/782940001_sd.pdf So my guess as to the height of the plastic dressing on top of the two-piece VCore heatsink, is 30mm. And my DDR3 DIMM sockets were the "single latch" design, which means ejection doesn't really work all that well. Yours might be the same. Some people seem to like those, but they get a "meh" from me. I know the single latch design, was used so DIMM slots could be butted up against the back of a video card, but I still don't like it. Now they use them, even when the design doesn't call for them. Paul |
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Maximus VII Hero with Hyper 212 Evo
On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 03:51:33 -0500, Paul wrote:
And my DDR3 DIMM sockets were the "single latch" design, which means ejection doesn't really work all that well. Yours might be the same. Some people seem to like those, but they get a "meh" from me. I know the single latch design, was used so DIMM slots could be butted up against the back of a video card, but I still don't like it. Now they use them, even when the design doesn't call for them. I guess they are cheaper to make. |
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Maximus VII Hero with Hyper 212 Evo
On 2015-01-31 03:51, Paul wrote:
B00ze/Empire wrote: Good day. I plan on getting an Asus Hero VII board, and use air cooling on the CPU. That board has all I need, but I am worried about the heatsinks that are over the voltage regulators around the CPU. They /look/ huge, and I am afraid they will get in the way of air coolers, specifically the Hyper 212 Evo that I have (and I suspect many other coolers). The 212 is 37mm high before the fins appear and it becomes wider, so if the heat sinks are less than ~40mm high, I think we're all good. But I downloaded Asus's User Manual and it doesn't say how high the sinks are. I looked on the AsusTek forums and in Google, but haven't found a good answer for this question. Someone asked this on TomsHardware, but the answer he got makes no sense :-( Can anyone help? Thank you much. Best Regards, The pictures on Newegg are a little too fuzzy for an estimate. But this one is pretty clear. http://wccftech.com/asus-z97-motherb...ries-detailed/ http://cdn4.wccftech.com/wp-content/...r1-635x423.jpg Wow, that article comparing all the Asus boards is great for its pictures, especially the angled Hero picture. You are right, below, it does look like the heatsinks on all of the ASUS boards are about as high as the DIMM sockets (or a tiny tiny bit higher). It looks to me, like someone is trying to bring the top of that two-piece heatsink, to the same height as an installed (regular) DIMM PCB. It looks about the same height as the DIMM sockets to my eyes... The way they make and "dress" these now, they're not content to use the simplest geometric shapes (flat top), so you cannot be absolutely certain of the dimensions. Lol, ya, like it makes a difference... If I use an engineering drawing of a DIMM socket, the clearance there suggests 26mm to the latch (rotational clearance zone). It's 22.8mm in the closed position. These come in all sizes though, with standard, low profile, very low profile, and I assume I got a standard one in the following document. It seems to line up roughly with my Asus board from August of this year (24mm by measurement). (It's hard to see in there, and I couldn't really see the plastic scale all that well.) http://www.molex.com/pdm_docs/sd/782940001_sd.pdf So my guess as to the height of the plastic dressing on top of the two-piece VCore heatsink, is 30mm. Good, good! Plenty of room! They just look so big on pictures... Thanks, I feel fine now :-) That board isn't perfect (Intel doesn't have enough PCI express lanes in the Southbridge; use something on a board, like the M2 slot, and you loose something else) but then all the boards are the same for that... And my DDR3 DIMM sockets were the "single latch" design, which means ejection doesn't really work all that well. Yours might be the same. Some people seem to like those, but they get a "meh" from me. I know the single latch design, was used so DIMM slots could be butted up against the back of a video card, but I still don't like it. Now they use them, even when the design doesn't call for them. Ya, same here, not a big fan of single latch. Thanks a lot! Best Regards, -- ! _\|/_ Sylvain / ! (o o) Member-+-David-Suzuki-Foundation/EFF/Planetary-Society-+- oO-( )-Oo Gravity is a myth The earth sucks. |
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