Air flow Problem/Question?

brianpocock

brianpocock

brianpocock

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I'm in the middle of a new build and I have come accross a snag.

I have the corsair dominator 4GB PC2-8500C5 kit and installed the fan but when I went to install my HSF (Arctic cooling freezer 7 pro) I realised that the fan on it would be right up against the cooling for the dominator RAM. Below is a picture of it in terible quality due to my nice camera breaking so having to use my camera phone.

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What do you think, will it be ok or should I take off the dominator fan, and is it ok without the fan?

Thanks Chaps :)

P.S excuse the mess, its getting cable brading later on
 
yeah I couldnt get a photo from that angle, it blocks the bottom part of the fan below the motor but the dominator fan sits high above the ram so some air can flow beneath it.
 
would be disturbing the air flow to the fan, and a fair chance its restricting what air it can get to cool the heatsink.

easiest check, although a pain, is run the system under load as it is check the temps then remove the memory cooling and run it again see what the temp differences are.
 
I doubt it'd be a problem.

But to be honest I'd ditch the RAM cooler anyway, who ever heard of overheating ram destabilising an overclock? It's just extra noise...
 
I've had overheating ram (too hot to toutch) that made my system crash loads. I put a Antec System Cooler on it and it's never done it again!
 
As said above with the cooler facing that way, it should drag air over those components and cooling them. But this kinda means that warmer air is used to cool the heatsink which means a high cpu temp. But in the real world i doubt it would be very much if not none.

~Slash
 
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