MSI DKA790GX Platinum Mobo Has No Chipset Heatsink Clearance

[Apoptosis]

Why would a motherboard company design a chipset cooler that actually hits the reference AMD processor heatsink?

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It doesn't impact the way the heatsink sits on the processor from what I could tell from the thermal compound imprint, but why design it that tight to where things touch?

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Here is a different angle of the chipset cooler on the 790GX chipset and the processor cpu cooler on the MSI DKA790GX Platinum motherboard.

[hercules71185]

wow, that's tight...