AM3 Cooler

Rossdh · 1 Jul 2009 at 09:50

Hi there. Does anyone know of an AM3 cooler that WILL NOT cover any of the dimm slots or at least allow for all four slots to be occupied on the motherboard? Any help will be great, thanks.

Andre · 1 Jul 2009 at 10:58

Motherboard might be helpful?

I am using a Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/LGA775)
on an MSI Platinum board (AM2+) with all four RAM slots filled if that is any help

Rossdh · 1 Jul 2009 at 11:25

Sorry knew I forgot to put something in. I will be using one of these;

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-110-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=

BigBruiserAl · 1 Jul 2009 at 12:28

You will prob find most tower coolers will cover at least one slot with a fan on push, however normal height rams tends to fit fine even if the cooler does cover the slot, might be worth thinking if you going to get normal or high level lvl ram then choose you cooler after as you may have more choice

Rossdh · 1 Jul 2009 at 12:39

sorry double post

Rossdh · 1 Jul 2009 at 12:44

Well I'm planning on using 8Gb of Crucial Ballistix Tracer in the form of 4x 2Gb sticks. For the CPU cooler I'm looking at the new Zalman CNPS10X.

Jeeva · 1 Jul 2009 at 14:10

I'm currently using an Scythe Orochi on an MSI 790FX-GD70, and all four slots are available. =)

Edit: -Can't get the case side on, though.