cyclone3d wrote on 2026-06-14, 03:27:And this is exactly the reason I am going to make mounts for using newer coolers on older systems.
Godspeed. That is an effort with one big hurdle: The design of the socket. The die of the CPU does not align with the highest point of the socket. That means you most likely can't use a completely flat cooler, like for example a 939 boxed cooler.
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You can clearly see the "issue". Apart from that the sockets are often directly surrounded by SMD parts, which are all differently aligned on different boards. The same mounting bracket i have build for my water cooling works without any collisions on an K7S8X Rev. 1.02, collides a little on a K7S8X Rev 3.0 and same for the A7N8X - not that it makes it impossible to use in my case, but larger coolers are really a space problem from my experience.
That's why I opted for the AIO route, which turned out to work just fine:
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If there's interest, I can share the 3d printing files soon, this is still the first rev and I have some ideas for improvements. It works with the https://marsgaming.eu/en/liquid-cooling/ml-one120 and https://marsgaming.eu/en/liquid-cooling/ml-one240.
I have the more robust ABS variant laying around as well, but could not be bothered to switch.. that little bending doesn't matter to me right now.
A bit more on the overclockin topic: I've had some time yesterday. The A7N8X works with 220MHz, even had 224 going for a quick test. Slowly getting there. The ASUS will get a poly mod + vmods next week, as I'm not happy with the VCore limitation at all. The Vmod for the K7S8X memory will come next week as well.
With some luck some new score this evening from me.
