Thanks. Although I've been reading Anandtech for at least five years+, I have somehow never posted here.
It's funny you should ask for pics, as I just came back to the thread after taking pics, thinking it would be hard to recommend anything without visual help.
Here are a couple of pics:
General View
and:
Top View
As you can see, I think it's a pretty standard LGA775 layout, but I am not sure of that. First off, the caps make things extremely difficult. The second shot tries to illustrate the overhang. Sorry for the flash washout, but it was taken exactly overhead to show just how unfortunately parallel things are. Basically the heatsink on the card is exactly above the screwholes. Given how most heatsinks go beyond those holes, you can imagine my difficulties.
PS: In case you are curious, the card is the
dual-GPU (3870) ASUS card with four DVI connectors on the plate. The black aluminum heatsink case was removed for less overlap.
PPS: Yes, I could chuck case and motherboard out, but first I thought I'd check for a heatsink swap before going for a whole new system. If I can find one, it'd be much cheaper. And, the challenge satisfies my inner masochist. :laugh:
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