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Gigabyte 980 ti clearance with Noctua cpu cooler

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Hello bro's 
I'm planning on building my first enthusiast pc using a 5820k processor in a corsair air 540 case with a ASUS X99-A motherboard and a noctua nh-d15 cpu cooler, would my case have enough clearance to fit the Gigabyte Xtreme 980ti card or would I be better off looking for a card that is a bit smaller?
Also would the noctua NH-D15 cooler allow the use of a Gigabyte Xtreme 980 Ti card, as it is quite beefy ! 

Any input is much appreciated, thank you. 

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1 minute ago, Quibiss said:

GPU clearance won't be a problem, I'd rather be concerned about RAM clearance. If yours is high profile, try the NH-D15s.

Thank you very much for your input concerning the GPU that is a relief ! 
Concerning the RAM, I'm aiming at a 4x8Gb Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4. Does it qualify as low profile ? 

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3 minutes ago, Quibiss said:

Yeah that is low profile. According to the Corsair spec sheet GPU length limit is 320mm and CPU cooler hight limit 170mm, you you are safe with all your choices. But I'd go with the NH-D15s anyways, same cooling performance and higher compability with other/future components.

Great ! Thanks again for helping out. 
As for the D15 over the D15s I saw that there was a slight decrease in performance with the S version ( 1-2 degrees ) 
but maybe you are right it might not to be worth the extra money and space in my build. 

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1 minute ago, Quibiss said:

1-2 degrees are well within the margin of error region, don't worry, the performance will be top notch with either of them, but the s-version has the edge in compability, and since Noctua is awesome and supports their coolers with future socket mounting hardware upgrades, you can use it in your future builds aswell. And just in case that one day you'll have high profile RAM, you are set.

That sounds good, I'll be going with the S then. 

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Damn, I thought there was a clearance sale on 980ti cards if I bought a Noctua CPU cooler! got me all excited and everything. :.(

 
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor  
CPU Cooler Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  
Motherboard MSI PRESTIGE X570 CREATION EATX AM4 Motherboard  
Memory G.Skill Trident Z Neo 128 GB (4 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory  
Video Card MSI GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB VENTUS 3X OC  
Case Corsair iCUE 5000X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case  
Power Supply SeaSonic PRIME TX 850 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  
Case Fan Corsair iCUE QL120 41.8 CFM 120 mm Fan  
Keyboard Corsair K95 RGB PLATINUM Wired Gaming Keyboard  
Mouse Logitech G502 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Optical Mouse  
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