My Noctua NH-D15s doesn’t fit

[Quaes_]

So it doesn’t fit but I cannot buy a different cooler right now any idea how to make it fit, could y just bend the heat pipes?

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, Quaes_ said:

So it doesn’t fit but I cannot buy a different cooler right now any idea how to make it fit, could y just bend the heat pipes?

Just leave the sidepanel off. Bending the heatpipes will break it.

[fuzz0r]

No you should NOT bend the heatpipes.

I'd suggest running it with the case open until you can find a new cooler.

[TrigrH]

35 minutes ago, Quaes_ said:

So it doesn’t fit but I cannot buy a different cooler right now any idea how to make it fit, could y just bend the heat pipes?

You could remove motherboard standoffs if you only need a little clearance, but its risky.

[TVwazhere]

42 minutes ago, Quaes_ said:

So it doesn’t fit but I cannot buy a different cooler right now any idea how to make it fit, could y just bend the heat pipes?

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As others have mentioned, run it with the side panel off.

 

For future reference, your CPU cooler height limit is less than 155mm tall in that PC-O11D. It's very limiting on CPU tower cooler height, so many people get AIO water coolers. 

 

Here's a list oc  coolers above 120 and below 155mm in height. The FUMA2 would be a pretty good replacment for the NH-D15s

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/cpu-cooler/#H=120000000,154500000

 

FU<MA2 in the PC-O11D example I found:

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/6jzYcf

6 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

You could remove motherboard standoffs if you only need a little clearance, but its risky.

That would cause the Motherboard I/O to not be in alignment anymore, correct?

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[TrigrH]

Just now, TVwazhere said:

That would cause the Motherboard I/O to not be in alignment anymore, correct?

Maybe, most likely the IO shield will not fit.

[Fasauceome]

6 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

You could remove motherboard standoffs if you only need a little clearance, but its risky.

 

3 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

That would cause the Motherboard I/O to not be in alignment anymore, correct?

It would also cause the back of the motherboard to be touching metal which is inadvisable

[jones177]

Why is your center fan so high?

Mine is lower than the heat pipe ends. The other fan is sitting on the ram so it is high. 

You have also installed it backwards. The notched out side should be toward the ram. 

 

 

[Deuteronomy93]

The O11 wasn't designed for air coolers, you can even run into issues with GPU blocks extruding too far out for the glass to fit. As others have said you'll need to run it with the panel off and just get a 240 AIO when you can. If you go for a 280 then you can't fit another fan in any of the 360 spots. I've now used my O11 in my gf's build and had 240 AIOs with a fan on the bottom (GPU with Kraken bracket) and top so there is definitely enough clearance to keep max fans. 

[LiveSorcerer]

I prefer to use Noctua NH-U12A, as it doesn't change much from the D15 in terms of performance, and keeps my i9 9900k cool and quiet.

[A1200]

Both my i7 3770s run with the Noctua NH-U9S, you can add a pull fan too it for extra performance.

[TrigrH]

15 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

It would also cause the back of the motherboard to be touching metal which is inadvisable

that is the "risk" but the case is painted so it should be okay.

[The117thCon]

7 hours ago, TrigrH said:

that is the "risk" but the case is painted so it should be okay.

even painted it can still have enough conductivity to short out and kill your motherboard

[TrigrH]

39 minutes ago, The117thCon said:

even painted it can still have enough conductivity to short out and kill your motherboard

no it cant.

[The117thCon]

1 hour ago, TrigrH said:

no it cant.

I have had this exact thing happened before it can and does