Fatal1ty 970 Performance nb/SB/vrm cooler dimensio

OK so long story short the board has stock ALU coolers on the chips etc. I'm on the hunt for some copper coolers but not sure how to take the dimensions if its just from center pin to center pin. The ALU coolers are useless and the heat paste I use eats ALU for breakfast so nothing but copper would do. I really would hate to have to remove them 2ce so if anyone has at hand I would be grateful (All 3 board heatsink dimensions or a nudge in right direction)

Specs are NZXT phantom full case
Amd fx 9370 8core
H100i
Asrock fatal1ty 970 Performance 3.1
Nvivida 750ti 4gb DDR 5
12 gbs DDR 3 1800mhz
850w psu


Edited by mgrandy@hotmail.co.u - 08 Mar 2017 at 2:42pm

OK thanks I'll check ERM out honestly I used to just stick an extra fan or two there normally but seen as how good the Coollaboratory Liquid Pro is on CPU and how hot the fx 9370 gets. I thought be great for the likes of them too. Fingers crossed my case fans cut the mustard on keeping board temps down etc

From first looks there's a mofset cooler there on sidewinder that looks good. http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/thhrty2moco.html but can't find out if its copper plated nickel, but a bigger step forward from the sites I've been looking on least that thing adjusts lol, I was half tempted to get the hacksaw and drill out and start chopping up my own.

The paste I had issues with was rated 0.8w/mk it was CPU stable with this at 70 degrees c(ik bad all i had)but the board tmpin1 kept climbing too well above 43 deg, fingers crossed it stays cool with 32.6w/mk paste when I get it built back up later this week and the 2 extra 80mm fans and the 120mm I've not long since wired up along with the 2 on rad and the 80mm exhaust.

it does say you need like 34 cfm or so pointed at your vrm

Edited by mgrandy@hotmail.co.u - 08 Mar 2017 at 3:54pm

Sorry re edited above post to include my fan setup etc and the temp issues etc but I see what you mean about the fan pointed at vrm. I have a 120mm direct on the mb and 2 smaller 40mm fans on route to put on the chips(in the post) along with the 2x 80mm at the HDD section (not far from mb).

Also extremely happy considering the cost compared to the extreme9 my previous build was fm2a55-dgs along with the a10 6800k oc to 6.3ghz. May be went a bit over kill on fans but hey ho lol and Yep I thought it better to ask.

Yes I did have random shut down but assumed it was heat issues as temp was rising bad thought ide solve that first well not so much random but anyway. I've heard the horror story's about the vrm burning assumed it was bad cooling on user part. I play safe run it for hour on idle and it shut down let it cool, then booted up to watch temps.

I remember my old 3.4ghz duel core socket 775 had the exact same shut downs think it was p5n32-sli I had issues with but the sli- duluxe had extra big heat sink and extra fans mounted on nb/SB and not 1 random shut down like the sli version. Stupidity amazes me sometimes and the ALU heat sinks with no fans don't help these things really should be water cooled. my socket 775 Asus board had that and it was donkeys years old. if you compare the extreme 9 heat sink yet again far superior to that of the fatal1ty 970 by miles. I doubt 90% of of random shutdowns are random but will soon see.

Any way will update when post man arrives.




Edited by mgrandy@hotmail.co.u - 08 Mar 2017 at 5:01pm

wardog wrote: Knowing you won't set a World Record with a 9370 on this board, Then I'm assuming you'll OC the dickens out of it considering the H100.

Honestly I was happy with my a10 6800k at 6.3ghz x4 oc or (normal 4.4ghz x 4) till my cheap dust filled PSU took it out along with itself and left some hideous burn marks. 8x 4.4ghz is almost 10ghz more and I struggled to keep less than that cool so its understandable.

Was also thinking of under clocking rather than over clock worst come to worst and can't keep them down, soon see