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motherboard for Silent Pipe II video cards

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bullfrawg

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I'm thinking about getting a Gigabyte 7600GT Silent-Pipe II passively cooled video card. There are two heat sinks: one takes up the next PCI slot for cool air intake, and the other is on the top of the card, to get airflow from the CPU fan. Here's a picture:

Gigabyte Silent Pipe II 7600GT video card

I'm worried that the heat sink on the back side of the video card might get crunched against the CPU fan or the memory on some motherboards, like these:

MSI K9N Platinum nForce 570 Ultra
Epox EP-MF570SLI
DFI Infinity nForce4 ultra
Biostar TFORCE 550

Has anyone tried similar combinations? Thanks!
 
I'ved used that card before and I don't think you'll have issues with very many or any boards at all. Of those boards there I would go with the MSI.
 
I have that card on an Asus P5B (vanilla) with a Scythe Ninja (which is fairly large) and lots of clearance. The heatsink on top isn't enormously large.

You might have some trouble with access to the tabs for the memory slots on the DFI, or the ATX connector on the Biostar. Not enough to make it unworkable, just a touch inconvenient. The other two look like they would have no real problems.
 
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