Looking for a decent extended ATX motherboard with the largest cooler mounting holes possible... anyone know of any?

[Icarus1138]

I know that enlarging these holes is nuts BUT... I am wondering how much room the circuitry might make around these holes and if it's feasible at all -  maybe even by contacting the motherboard maker as well to see how much they might be enlarged.

 

I am thinking about making a custom CPU cooler and it would be beneficial to have the largest diameter mounting holes possible.

[BasicallyAMod]

dude this is a bad idea. im not going to tell you not to but.......

 

the LTT team tried this and they had a bad time.

 

having big holes wont help you and the holes are standard sizes.

 

sorry for the letdown

 

 

 

[Icarus1138]

2 hours ago, BasicallyAMod said:

the LTT team tried this and they had a bad time.

 

having big holes wont help you and the holes are standard sizes.

 

sorry for the letdown

 

 

 

Why did they try to enlarge the holes? What project was it?

 

I saw one that looked like it had larger holes but I can't find it again. I also saw one that had 2 sets of 4 holes and the holes were kind of merged together. Even that would help me. 

 

Also, why won't big holes help me? For the cooler I want to make they would help a lot.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Genwyn said:

Unless you're bolting a cubic meter worth of heatsink onto one, the standard size for mounting hardware is more than adequate for the material strength needed to hold even the largest of air coolers to the board. If you're putting something so heavy on the motherboard that you actually need different bolts you'd likely rip the socket out of the motherboards PCB.

^^^ I've put my NH-D15S on a bunch of boards and that's a bulky CPU cooler, the stock mounting holes are fine. X99 is the most solid mounting setup I've used so far, but I've never seen a mobo where you can very safely (let alone cleanly) enlarge the mounting holes. PC components are built to certain specs for good reason, it's usually best to cater to that instead of trying to mod your hardware destructively to force it to cater to a standard you made up randomly. 

 

[BasicallyAMod]

1 hour ago, Icarus1138 said:

Why did they try to enlarge the holes? What project was it?

 

i was saying that they made their own heatsink

 

1 hour ago, Icarus1138 said:

Also, why won't big holes help me? For the cooler I want to make they would help a lot.

what kind of cooler do you want?

[Icarus1138]

1 hour ago, Genwyn said:

Unless you're bolting a cubic meter worth of heatsink onto one, the standard size for mounting hardware is more than adequate for the material strength needed to hold even the largest of air coolers to the board. If you're putting something so heavy on the motherboard that you actually need different bolts you'd likely rip the socket out of the motherboards PCB.

It's not a weight issue.. it is something I need for the design of the cooler.

[Icarus1138]

44 minutes ago, BasicallyAMod said:

i was saying that they made their own heatsink

 

what kind of cooler do you want?

I wanted it to be a surprise.  I think it will be pretty cool...

[BasicallyAMod]

37 minutes ago, Icarus1138 said:

I wanted it to be a surprise.  I think it will be pretty cool...

i hope it wirks out

 

[Icarus1138]

I found one here that has a large area open... it says "Crosshair VI Hero has both AM3 and AM4 mounting holes"

 

Does anyone know if any other motherboards have this same setup?

 

 

https://www.overclock.net/forum/11-amd-motherboards/1623547-amd-ryzen-motherboard-thread-51.html

 

https://www.overclock.net/photopost/data/1597700/2/2d/2d7884a5_24073053714l.jpeg