air cooling cpu Incomplete Ihs coverage by the cooler

[m3ntal]

Hello all! This is my first time on the ltt forums and i was wondering what to do about this motherboard cooler combo, as you can see my cpu socket is like 1cm too far right for my crazy rare unknown model coolermaster pga478 cooler (this things a beast I got it with an abit ic7 and its built like a huge hyper 212 evo but way more stout i can count 6 heatpipes if you know anything about it lmk) and im not sure if this is going to hurt my cpu, im building this computer to do more research on the preformance per clock scaling of netburst, more specifically prescott, i have this crazy rare motherboard its a pga 478 with pci express and ddr2 ram (i really want biostar m4-g31 as its a pga478 with a core 2 chipset) but i really want to use this motherboard and modify the vrms to see just how far i can get this 3.4ghz prescott. I know i could use lga 775 but thats not what im asking. Do you think this gap is neglegable? I dont want to warp my cpu or cooler as theyre both pretty unreplaceable but ill probably end up sending it with a shitty celeron or something idk...

 

All help is appriciated!

[Skiiwee29]

It shouldn't hurt performance. Older chips the package was centered under the IHS so you still have full coverage on the CPU Cores/Die itself.