Thermaltake Volcano 9 on KT4 Ultra

Does anyone know if the thermaltake volcano 9 hsf will fit ok onto the KT4 ultra MOBO? it looks to me like those capacitors are pretty close to the cpu socket, so if anyone knows if the volcano 9 fits ok, i'd like to know about it.
thanks. 8)

It fits with little room to spare on my K7T266 PRO-2 but it cools quiet enough to make it worth it, board is almost same layout as yours, just be careful on the tiedown, use a long thing driver to attach clips...
GOOD LUCK
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Originally posted by Doobie
Does anyone know if the thermaltake volcano 9 hsf will fit ok onto the KT4 ultra MOBO? it looks to me like those capacitors are pretty close to the cpu socket, so if anyone knows if the volcano 9 fits ok, i'd like to know about it.
thanks. 8)

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"......so i took back to them again. and they claimed this time that the cpu cooler was to big and wasent makeing full contact, and gave us a smaller one(i think a volcano7?)....."
THATS SO NOT TRUE ?
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Originally posted by swedecom
Ok, I use these settings in my BIOS, are they right for my system??
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MSI KT4 Ultra ( MS-6590 ) with BIOS
CPU AMD Athlon XP 2600+
768MB DDR 400 RAM
GeForce 4 TI4200AGP 8x
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CPU FSB Clock = 166Mhz
CPU Ratio = Auto
CPU Vcore = (V) Auto
DDR Voltage (V) = Auto
Termination Vol (V) = Auto
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