mr_knowitall15
05-19-2005, 05:00 PM
simple enough, as the title says, im helping my friend build a new computer for himself, and we ordered the MSI intel NF4 SLI mobo, a 550 cpu. 2x1GB of ddr2 667 (geil i think), a silverstone 650W PSU, an MSI 6800GT, and the zalman 7700. We havent yet started putting it together, (it came in today, but he had work early in the afternoon). however, in the short time i had to look at the components, we already ran into one small problem, the cooler wont fit unless we remove the little fan from the northbridge heatsink. that doesnt seem to be a problem since the big @$$ cooler will blow air over it anyway, but then i was reading the installation instructions, and on zalmans website it was saying how much room it needed around it to fit properly on a mobo, and something it mentioned was the PSU. His case is the thermaltake Soprano mid tower, so basically, i need to know if there will be enough clearence from where the giant heatsink ends, to the power supply above it. BTW, i put this in teh xtreme OC section, because once we get it up and running, and he lets me install my watercooling stuff on it, ill edit this post and hopefully put up some nice numbers. :toast: