Will the NH-D15 fit?

[Jonathan Lemmens]

For my new PC I'd like to know whether a NH-D15 will fit in the footprint of a mITX motherboard. I intend to build this PC using an army surplus ammunition box as a custom PC case, it is 175mm wide just 5mm larger than an ITX mobo.

In the picture below it seems like the heatsink overhangs the edge of the mobo on the left side by a tiny bit. Can anyone confirm or perhaps measure this?

 

If this really won't fit, I may choose the NH-D15S because the coldplate has been offset from the centre and I would mount it the 'other way around' to overhang the PCIe slot instead, I'll use a PCIe riser cable to mount the GPU either above the cooler or below the mobo anyway.

Can I expect other problems to arise by doing this, maybe it will overhang too much and still go past the edge of the mobo on the other side?

 

If anyone could post measurements or pictures of a NH-D15(S) on an ITX mobo, preferrably from the top down, that would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

[ChackoM]

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/9C6scf

 

This build has a Noctua NH-D15 SE-AM4 fan on an ITX mobo

[rn8686]

The product page specifies the width is 150mm, so I would think so. 

 

http://noctua.at/en/nh-d15/specification

[Billy_Mays]

The socket moves a little bit board to board so someone would need to test that and it would be tons of money to be used

[Jonathan Lemmens]

5 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

The product page specifies the width is 150mm, so I would think so. 

 

http://noctua.at/en/nh-d15/specification

But the socket is never exactly in the middle of the motherboard, also Noctua assumes I put a GPU in the top PCI slot, so they have to leave room for that as well.

 

7 minutes ago, ChackoM said:

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/9C6scf

 

This build has a Noctua NH-D15 SE-AM4 fan on an ITX mobo

Thanks, it's still difficult to see though. Also many cases have at least 1cm spacing between the edge of the mobo and the wall of the case, I do not have that luxury.  

[Jonathan Lemmens]

2 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

The socket moves a little bit board to board so someone would need to test that and it would be tons of money to be used

Just by comparing pictures, all the mounting holes for Z270 ITX boards are the same distance from the top edge, only the distance to the I/O ports may differ, which does not matter in my case. Most AM4 sockets look like they are in a very similar place to Z270, except for the Gigabyte ITX board with the weird layout.

 

I intend to go with a Z270 ITX mobo (possibly the Asus Strix) and a 7700K, I would assume i'm not the first who paired this with an NH-D15.