X58 BloodRage Heatsink/Waterblock/Extreme Cooling Compatibility List

[saaya]

Will the Vigor Monsoon III LT CPU Cooler on the Blood Rage cause any issues, you think? I guess the second problem would be my G.skill Pi Black Ram that's installed. It seems as though the heatspeader would interfere with this cooler especially since the fans can't be raised like on a Thermalright. Saaya said that even with the Thermalright, the fan had to be raised a bit if using the Corsair memory, but I'm not sure how tall his modules are. Seems that cooling solutions are a pain, at the moment, especially when you are looking at having it all in a case and not water cooling.


Product Page:
http://www.vigorgaming.com/component...ite_intel.html

Additional Photos:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowIm...201366%20Ready

G.Skill Pi Ram:
http://newgskill.web-bi.net/bbs/data...L8T_PI_B_1.jpg

Hmmm im sorry, i dont think the monsoon will fit with both fans installed.
If you remove the one on the side of the mem then it might fit... or if you mount it elevated slightly higher above the ram... that heatsink is a tight fit on the P6T already, any board with the mem slots closer to the cpu socket for shorter memory traces and hence better ocing like the intel smackover, BR or gigiabyte boards will probabaly not fit...

Im sure you CAN fit it, but itll need some DIY

From the pictures I saw on Newegg, the Monsoon's backplate won't fit because it is an X shape and will be blocked by the 1366 socket plate on the back of the mobo, same problem I had with my Swiftech GTX 775 backplate. You need a backplate that is setup like the one in the picture which is for 1366. As for the RAM and the cooler, it will be a tight fit and the only way to really tell is to give it a try. Hope that helps.

it depends on the length of the screws actually, if they are long enough than thats not a problem... the 1366 socket backplate will just elevate the backplate a bit... and if the screws are too short, you could def fit it with longer screws, again DIY is king

Thanks, I thought it'd be a tight fit, but didn't think about the backplate. Will the Thermalright one work fine for the TRUE?

http://www.thermalright.com/new_a_pa...er_1366rt.html

yepp, we are using TRUEs here

Should work fine according to Thermalright as it is a 1366 backplate. Saaya, can you confirm this?

yepp!

What about the d-tek fuzion v1 or v2?

This is V1 i suppose?
http://www.dtekcustoms.com/index.asp...ROD&ProdID=182

it looks like its beeing mounted with some sort of custom pushpin and without a backplate... depending on the pushpins itll either work or not... if they are adjustable enough to make up for the extra hight of the 1366 cpu socket then it should fit...

V2 is this one:
http://www.dtekcustoms.com/index.asp...ROD&ProdID=210

looks like the thermalright spring screws with a tuniq tower style backplate.
should work provided the springs arent too tight, but i think they are too tight... the 1366 cpu socket is only 1mm higher, but the backplate of the 1366 cpu socket is 2mm thick, so together itll be an extra thickness of 3mm... it might work or not... if it doesnt, replacing the springs on the screws or using different screws should work. and again DIY is king

Id recommend to ask them about a 1366 kit though, im sure a V2 1366 kit is already in the makes and should work without any mods or fiddling

Oh come on, no word on compatibility with one of the best i7 coolers? (better design for i7 then GTZ and EK)

didnt ignore your post :P
ive been pretty sick for a few weeks and didnt post much here, and until today there were 2 week chinese new year holidays here, sorry i didnt reply sooner

That bloodrage is compatable with me, i can tell you that, I just toook the board out of the box for hte first time, it's a thing of beauty, WOW. It is so sweet, nice heatpipes, all screwed down, no pushpins, all have backplates, I think this has to be one of the best boards I have ever held. I have the EK Supreme, black Derlin for it....

glad you like it!!!

EK supreme is with 775 or 1366 mounting holes?
can i add it to the list?

I concur that the Bloodrage is one of the nicest boards ever! I have been loving mine, especially at the 4.2Ghz I have it with temps of 60C at 100% load on my Swiftech GTX!

wow, you got your 920 to 4.2? :o 21x200? :o what vcore?

Here's something - I tried to use the new Thermalright fan retention bracket with my Bloodrage and it's a no-go. The RAM slots are too close to the CPU / HS to fit it on there. The wire clips *might* work, but they basically suck. Anyone else run into this / have some good workarounds?

the wire clips work cause you can hook the lower one in an inch higher than normal and then have the fan slightly elevated
if the memory has large heatspreaders thats necessary, but for normal heatspreaders things should work fine?

The fan holder can interfere with the RAM as I have a TRUE along with both clips and holders. Clips work best as they hold the fan closer and can be modified (bent just right so the tension holds still) to not interfere with nearby objects if that is a problem. Also, I got a slimmer fan (120mm x 20mm Yate Loon) and that helps out too, but that doesn't help out with the holder, just the clips. Also, when installing, you can move the heatsink around a tad before tightening it completely as there's more than enough surface area on the base to cover the i7, so you can move it back a tad if you need more room on the front end. If you're using 2 fans, then the one on the backside has more room and no RAM heatsink fins, etc. in the way there so it doesn't cause any problems.

cool, thanks for the details!

I would like to mount a noctua NH-U12P SE1366 on bloodrage, but i'm perplexed on the area between the noctua's fan and the first ram slot, because some rams have the heatsink fins (such as carsair dominator or csx diablo 2000).
So do you know incompatibility about that?
It would be interesting to know the distance between the socket and the first slot of ram in order to calculate the height useful

Thank you..and sorry for my tremendous english...

Distance of the edge of the first memory slot to the edge of the 1366 cpu socket is 26mm

Obviously the RAM slots were placed way too close to the socket - guess they figured everyone was going to use the stock Intel HS.

no, we figured with i7 not tolerating high vdimm and all chip makers focussing on 1.35-1.8v vdimm for their new chips memory sticks with huge heatsinks would not be as popular anymore, AND, most importantly, we figured having lots of space for heatsinks on the memory is less important than achieving high memory overclocks thanks to shorters and optimized memory traces
actually gigabyte boards and intels own smackover board have less space between the edge of the cpu socket and the first memory slot

@ilsant0: Below is an interim solution, until I can find a permanent one. Not the best solution I know, but will have to do for now.



Spent the whole day trying to figure out why it wont boot on x64 with 6GB of ram. Darn G15/16 bios'es...

yeah, thats how i mounted the fan as well, worked fine for me, the sligthly lower airflow didnt seem to change the temperatures at all, it doesnt look that pretty tho, true

so is the mem fine or not?
could it be that it was damaged in another way?
i cant imagine how the mem died if the fan barely touched it... hmmm too bad...

Regarding G15/G16.. sorry

I am considering in moving into water now...

i7 loves water!

You won't regret it, trust me!

oh yes! ive seen a 965 at 4.6 on water, thats where some chips max out on ln2! dont know what it is with i7 and low temps, but it barely scales below zero...

Just to confirm, Fuzion v1 working fine here - it's just got the bolt through threads so it doesn't interfere with the i7 backplate at all

nice! so they have enough flexibility to make up for the slightly higher cpu socket on 1366, cool!

Two reasons:

1. That makes for a shorter path between the CPU and the RAM. Hell, they even removed the second RAM bank for that reason.

2. I think their idea was for people to use mainly watercooling.
Why you ask? Well, take a look at the design of the new NB block compared to the BlackOps block, its a difference of night and day.

yes, the main concern is to make something technically possible and not to build a solution for best compatibility at the cost of oc performance.
it was evident from day1 that i7 runs very hot when oced and while large tower heatsinks CAN cool it, they need a lot of space and airflow and in the high end segment watercooling is already very popular and fits very well. the main idea of the 775 mounting holes was for ln2 pots, dry ice pots, compressor cooling and water cooling. That a lot of heatsinks fit as well is a bonus

I know its annoying that some heatsinks dont fit perfectly, but think about it, whats the point of having a lot of space between all components for huge heatsinks, to cool your overclocked cpu and memory etc... when you cant overclock your memory and cpu that well cause the traces are that long?

imo cooling has to meet the hardware requirements and the hardware requirements dont have to meet the cooling.
cpus used to not even require a heatsink or only passive heatsinks, now do you think it was the right decision to work on a faster cpu that needed a heatsink even though it meant new cooling requirements, or should intel and amd have designed their cpus for exisiting cooling? :P\

TRUE does fit, although the fan on the memory slot side needs to be mounted slightly elevated or needs to be replaced with an 80mm or 92mm fan. and if your memory is using normal or no heatsinks the heatsink can be mounted north/south wise as well, in which case it blocks the first 2 memory sticks from getting removed, but you can mount 2 fans for perfect push pull, pull hot air from the vgas and push it to the psu exhaust fan