Tuniq Tower 120 and GA-P35C-DS3R

[asdftt123]

I'm planning to purchase a new gaming system in September with GA-P35C-DS3R and Tuniq Tower 120 for Q6600, 8800GTX, and 4GB DDR2 800. I've been doing lots of research to finalize this build and to make sure everything will work properly. I encountered a post on Tom's Hardware about the Tuniq being an extremely tight fit.

Link:
http://www.tomshardware.com/fo...ly-tight-advice-needed

Pic:
http://tinyurl.com/2m7me3

As you can see, the copper base of the tower pushes against the capacitors, which could potentially destroy the board. Did anyone else have this problem? From what I hear the Tuniq is the best cooling solution for the Quad as I will be eventually be OCing. Is there another board such as the normal P35-DS3R I should go with to remedy this problem?

On another note, do you think it would be worth waiting to get the x38 mobo when it comes out? It has PCI-e 2.0 support for the new graphics cards but I'm rather turned off by the fact that it only supports DDR3. I think Gigabyte is making a strictly DDR2 model, that I'll consider purchasing. Any ideas?

 

[mrfatboy]

Originally posted by: asdftt123
I'm planning to purchase a new gaming system in September with GA-P35C-DS3R and Tuniq Tower 120 for Q6600, 8800GTX, and 4GB DDR2 800. I've been doing lots of research to finalize this build and to make sure everything will work properly. I encountered a post on Tom's Hardware about the Tuniq being an extremely tight fit.

Link:
http://www.tomshardware.com/fo...ly-tight-advice-needed

Pic:
http://tinyurl.com/2m7me3

As you can see, the copper base of the tower pushes against the capacitors, which could potentially destroy the board. Did anyone else have this problem? From what I hear the Tuniq is the best cooling solution for the Quad as I will be eventually be OCing. Is there another board such as the normal P35-DS3R I should go with to remedy this problem?

On another note, do you think it would be worth waiting to get the x38 mobo when it comes out? It has PCI-e 2.0 support for the new graphics cards but I'm rather turned off by the fact that it only supports DDR3. I think Gigabyte is making a strictly DDR2 model, that I'll consider purchasing. Any ideas?

It just fit in my case and had plenting of space on the board.

 

[asdftt123]

You quoted my post and yet, you have no response?

 

[mrfatboy]

Originally posted by: asdftt123
You quoted my post and yet, you have no response?

it's there. I was to quick on the mouse button

 

[asdftt123]

Hmmm, okay, that's strange. It seems like there are other people having problems yet other people are not. Is there a special way to mount the cooler? I have to admit the thing looks like a beast and I've heard a total pain to install. Am I right? I'm also worried that the few pounds that's leaning over the motherboard when it's upright could break the motherboard?

 

[mrfatboy]

Originally posted by: asdftt123
Hmmm, okay, that's strange. It seems like there are other people having problems yet other people are not. Is there a special way to mount the cooler? I have to admit the thing looks like a beast and I've heard a total pain to install. Am I right? I'm also worried that the few pounds that's leaning over the motherboard when it's upright could break the motherboard?

It is huge. It was easy to install only if you install it on the mobo out of the case. There was no way I could do it while the mobo was mounted. I was able to mount it any direction I wanted to (fan blow to rear, or fan blow up). The back plate that comes with it was very secure and I have no worries about mobo damage. It was rock solid.