Hey!
I had to try another motherboard out for my build and the only one with the Z97 chipset I could get a hold of was the Asus Z97i-Plus. It ended up solving my issues, but it's got a huge heatsink that blocks my Noctua NH-L9i from being able to exhaust in one direction.
As you can see, "above" the CPU socket is a large heatsink. It's got screws on the bottom side of the board, so it looks like it could be removed. This heatsink is blocking basically the only place my CPU cooler can dissapate heat, since the RAM is on one side, the I/O is on the opposite side, and my GPU is opposite of that big heatsink.
I've seen folks attach extruded heatsinks on components (including even motherboard VRMs) before, is it possible I could do something like that and achieve okay results?
I had to try another motherboard out for my build and the only one with the Z97 chipset I could get a hold of was the Asus Z97i-Plus. It ended up solving my issues, but it's got a huge heatsink that blocks my Noctua NH-L9i from being able to exhaust in one direction.
As you can see, "above" the CPU socket is a large heatsink. It's got screws on the bottom side of the board, so it looks like it could be removed. This heatsink is blocking basically the only place my CPU cooler can dissapate heat, since the RAM is on one side, the I/O is on the opposite side, and my GPU is opposite of that big heatsink.
I've seen folks attach extruded heatsinks on components (including even motherboard VRMs) before, is it possible I could do something like that and achieve okay results?