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Air Coolers: Is BIG really too big?
Touching a popular topic here but it's got me thinking. I'm running a Noctua NH-D15, which some of us should know is a behemoth. It's basically the size of my head. I can't get over the reality that something so big and heavy is hanging off of my motherboard. Every time I walk through my room at night and bump my PC, I have this terrifying fear that it's going to break off and drop onto my graphics card and kill my system. Don't get me wrong, it performs so beautifully even at low RPMs that it I feel pretty smug that I got something so cool (ba-dum-tsh) for the price. But now I'm wondering if I should step up to something like the NZXT Kraken X61.
Anyone here have issues with large air coolers stressing motherboards? I know I'm being paranoid, so let's get that out of the way. :P