Note topic: I'd rather not be bending capacitors or bending the NB heatsink to get that bad boy on my mobo. Thanks (btw i tried google to no avail)
Doesn't look like it interferes, at least Zalman hasn't heard anything. One fit on my old IS7 without a problem and it's a fairly similar layout.
happy to report my processor is now running with a 7000b cu. coppery goodness with a pretty blue light