Playing silly buggers with the LGA1156

[wendell]

On an ATX board, you can mount a sizeable cooler atop the processor without crowding the neighborhood.

I'm just now looking at an Intel DH57JG, though. I think this Mini ITX is pretty typical in having various objects planted within the space demarcated for the LGA1156. Some of them poke above the top of the socket, so it doesn't look like a 85x85mm plate could be fitted atop the processor. Can it? How would you approach this?

[quest_for_silence]

How would you approach this?

Personally, unless you have less than 60mm clearance for the CPU heatsink (but such a case is incompatible with a really quiet system, when it's not a heatsink-case), using a more regular cooler and not a 1U one.
Above all, a 70mm ball bearing 5000rpm fan is a taking-off jet engine, not a cooler.

[MikeC]

Intel is very clear about the "keep out area" for the heatsink -- you can see white lines drawn in the perimeter of that space, right on the DH57JG board. It's that 85x85mm plate which is not staying within Intel guidelines... which as the last poster pointed out, is going to be a noisy inefficient beast anyway. You need to use a heatsink with a base that does not extend so much beyond the CPU socket.

See pic of the DH55TC -- same socket, same white lines, different board.

[nutball]

I have this board (DH57JG). One thing you need to be wary of is what's on the back of the board near the processor socket - there are surface-mount chips there. If you're wanting to use a heatsink that uses a backplate there's a good chance that these components will interfere with it. Better to use a heatsink that has individual bolts on the back, or uses the standard push-pin fittings.