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Originally Posted by Neuromancer
Why did you run the cooler in that position? Seems rotating it 90 degrees like they are normally mounted would alleviate some of the ram height issue. I do not know how large the fan is, but assuming a 25mm stance it should still allow to use high height RAM even with fan blowing RAM to VRMs.
Using a 38mm fan on my megahalem, I actually put it on the back side, as 38mm shoves it across the first 2 DIMM slots. Standard ram still works fine though.
For sandyB I run in the orientation you are running because miah suggested it runs slightly cooler, which does effect mounting RAM, but I put the fan blowing towards the vid card not sucking the air from it. (Generally CPUs are so much cooler than GPUs that blowing the warmed air from the CPU still helps cool the backside of the card )
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I wish it was capable of being mounted 90 degrees from where it is but this is one cooler that will only mount up one way, based on how the MB maker places the mounting holes in the board.
That would be a huge help in solving the RAM useage problem if it did but this cooler is not one of those you can turn the way you want.
Yes, if I had set it to exhaust towards the GPU that may have helped temps a little but I did have a small fan blowing onto the board to similate things as if it were in a case with proper airflow, plus to help it get air for the reason you stated about drawing air in. On that note it would help the CPU but make the GPU run hotter - The Thuban will throw out some heat and this cooler will pick it up and move it too.
I can make it rujn even hotter if I wanted to but the Thuban tends to have a thermal spike while trying to boot if I go too high with voltage. I'm not aware of any aircooler that can fix that problem and it even happens if it's on watercooling too. You can then give it even more juice but even that has it's limits as I know already - Been there, tried that with the Thuban.