Does Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV fit an X399M board?

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   I have an X399M Taichi TR4 board with a GTX 1080 using the top PCIE slot and I'd like to buy a 3rd party cooler for my graphics card: [URL=https://www.arctic.ac/eu_en/ax4.html]Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV[/URL]

The board has a large housing for the IO ports and there's a big heat sink on the VRM, and I'm afraid the back plate of the Accelero Xtreme would not fit.

I can move the card to another PCIE slot if needed, but then the cooling efficiency would somewhat drop I think.

Did anyone install that particular cooler with this mobo?

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romeozor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 11 Apr 2019 Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote romeozor Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Does Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV fit an X399M board? Posted: 11 Apr 2019 at 4:50pm
	I have an X399M Taichi TR4 board with a GTX 1080 using the top PCIE slot and I'd like to buy a 3rd party cooler for my graphics card: [URL=https://www.arctic.ac/eu_en/ax4.html]Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV[/URL] The board has a large housing for the IO ports and there's a big heat sink on the VRM, and I'm afraid the back plate of the Accelero Xtreme would not fit. I can move the card to another PCIE slot if needed, but then the cooling efficiency would somewhat drop I think. Did anyone install that particular cooler with this mobo?

wardog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 15 Jul 2015 Status: Offline Points: 6447	Post Options Post Reply Quote wardog Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Apr 2019 at 3:30pm
	I have not your MB nor card. You'll definitely need to use another PCIe slot. The cooler itself is 54mm/2 1/8" in height. MB specs/layouts are industry defined, so it should fit, excepting that top slot. I can't imagine it fitting there even with a watercooler installed on the cpu. 54mm on that X399M board is a lot. Review, with it installed on a 1080: https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/henry-butt/arctic-accelero-xtreme-iv-gpu-cooler-review/

romeozor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 11 Apr 2019 Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote romeozor Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Jul 2019 at 11:35pm
	Guess I?�ll update this. I bought the cooler and as expected, it doesn?�t fit in the top pcie slot. Sadly the card didn?�t fit in the microATX case after moving it to the second slot, so I had to buy a bit bigger case too.