Dew itt right
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Just incase anybody is trying to figure out whether or not it can be done – it can! I searched around before ordering and found several places that said it couldn’t be done. Even a Thermalright rep said it couldn’t!! It really depends on your CPU HSF. Here’s my board and HSF’s…
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-T1 680i SLI Motherboard
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler
Thermalright HR-05 Copper Heatsink (on NB)
Thermalright HR-05-SLI Copper Heatsink (on SB)
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…you’ll see the NB HSF is pretty close to the CPU HSF. These Thermalright HR-05 and HR-05-SLI HSF are basically able to rotate in any which direction and still be mounted securely. From the position in the picture, I rotated my NB HSF about 45-degrees clockwise and put a fan on it to blow the hot air to the rear of the case. I can do this only because the Ultra-120 Extreme on my CPU is significantly narrow in this orientation. If your CPU HSF is wider this way you may be forced to install the HR-05 parallel with the video card. This sucks because if you put a fan on the NB HSF, you’ll either have to have the hot blowing up into the CPU or down into the video card!
One other downside to this setup is I could not mount a fan to the bottom of the CPU HSF to push air through the HSF towards the top of the case. The NB HSF is too close the the CPU HSF to mount a fan here. So I had to mount the fan to the top of the HSF and PULL the air through it and up towards the top of the case. Fans do not pull air through a HSF nearly as well as they push air through one. I still was able to get decent cooling though even with a fairly weak fan.
The next two pics show the video card clearance (top PCIe slot)…
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The GPU shown is an EVGA 8800GTS 640Mb Superclocked so it is one of the longer ones. You’ll see it’s got a little clearance from the NB HSF but it’s fairly close (almost touching) to the SB HSF. No big deal because the point of contact here on the video card is the plastic housing over the GPU’s HSF. However, it’s a whole different story if you have a video card in the lower PCIe x16 slot…
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You'll see here with the 8800GTS in the bottom PCIe slot the SB HSF is touching the exposed PCB components. You'd definitely need to find a way to keep this from shorting the video card. Physically, it's do-able though. You can see my FSB OC results HERE...
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-T1 680i SLI Motherboard
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler
Thermalright HR-05 Copper Heatsink (on NB)
Thermalright HR-05-SLI Copper Heatsink (on SB)
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…you’ll see the NB HSF is pretty close to the CPU HSF. These Thermalright HR-05 and HR-05-SLI HSF are basically able to rotate in any which direction and still be mounted securely. From the position in the picture, I rotated my NB HSF about 45-degrees clockwise and put a fan on it to blow the hot air to the rear of the case. I can do this only because the Ultra-120 Extreme on my CPU is significantly narrow in this orientation. If your CPU HSF is wider this way you may be forced to install the HR-05 parallel with the video card. This sucks because if you put a fan on the NB HSF, you’ll either have to have the hot blowing up into the CPU or down into the video card!
One other downside to this setup is I could not mount a fan to the bottom of the CPU HSF to push air through the HSF towards the top of the case. The NB HSF is too close the the CPU HSF to mount a fan here. So I had to mount the fan to the top of the HSF and PULL the air through it and up towards the top of the case. Fans do not pull air through a HSF nearly as well as they push air through one. I still was able to get decent cooling though even with a fairly weak fan.
The next two pics show the video card clearance (top PCIe slot)…
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The GPU shown is an EVGA 8800GTS 640Mb Superclocked so it is one of the longer ones. You’ll see it’s got a little clearance from the NB HSF but it’s fairly close (almost touching) to the SB HSF. No big deal because the point of contact here on the video card is the plastic housing over the GPU’s HSF. However, it’s a whole different story if you have a video card in the lower PCIe x16 slot…
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You'll see here with the 8800GTS in the bottom PCIe slot the SB HSF is touching the exposed PCB components. You'd definitely need to find a way to keep this from shorting the video card. Physically, it's do-able though. You can see my FSB OC results HERE...
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