Quote Originally Posted by K404 View Post
Ive never used an air cooler on an Intel chip...would the retention clips still work ok, despite the extra mm or so added to the CPU height?

It looks like a dumb idea, but DFI will have seriously THOUGHT about this, so it either works or... something bad got into the aircon system and no-one was thinking straight for a few days.
the manual states not to use retention clip style heatsinks.