Cooler and ram problem

[doozer]

Finally ordered my new pic bits the other day and I'm struggling to make it fit.

I got a Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler, Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 and some Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz memory.

The space between the memory and cooler is rather a tight fit.

Wondered if anyone else had run this combo as the fan on the cooler is right above the ram and I'm a bit concerned if I build like this I will get heat issues.

Oh and the cooler has got to be the worst cooler I've ever tried to fit I should have just got a h100.

 

[doozer]

Yeah I did try that and it will fit just it's like 1-2 mm from the ram.

After having a glass of red wine I've realised I could just put the fan on the opposite of the cooler block.

So might give that a try as I had to reset the cpu cooler anyway as someone forget to plug in one of the power cords ahem.

 

[doozer]

Been tearing my hair out getting this to work still.

Pc wouldn't post and after lots of faffing and swapping out gfx,memory and going back to the stock cooler it's the memory.

Now according to the motherboard manual dual channel=sticks in same colour.

If I attempt to boot like this the machine will not boot.

If I just stick the memory in slots next to each other eg 1+2 or 3+4 it boots fine.