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Gawd
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Just looked at my motherboard and I hope I’m wrong but I’m really not seeing how it would work with the dark rock. Space between the ram and a heat sink is a bit tight but the real problem seems to be how low the cpu is mounted on the board. It’s right above the pci express slot. <50mm from the centre of the cpu socket to the pci express slot. Even the u9s seems like it would just barely fit. I’m having trouble visualising things based on BeQuiet’s measurements but I’m not seeing how the Dark Rock won’t interfere with the GPU. If anyone can correct me I’d appreciate it, but I may have just answered my own question.
I believe your motherboard is the Asrock Z77E-ITX. A mini-ITX motherboard is 170 mm x 170 mm. Counting pixels on the large image of this model at the Asrock website, I calculate that the distance from the center of the PCI-E slot to the center of the CPU socket is 54 mm. The thickness of a graphics card will reduce the distance to the center of the CPU by several millimeters.
On the be quiet! website their Motherboard Check tool indicates that the PCI-E slot will be blocked by the Dark Rock TF. The website for the cooler lists its dimensions as 162.6 mm x 140 mm x 130.8 mm (L x W x H). on the Technical data tab. So it's 70 mm from the center of the heatsink to the outside edge of the fins, confirming the compatibility result. There's a technical drawing if you want to check more of the dimensions.
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