Cooling for phenom II CPU

[spacedskunk]

I went and got a thermalright 120 ultra for my phenom II 550 dual core, as well as a couple of Enermax Magma Twister for an MSI 790fx-gd90, not knowing it wouldn't fit and you could only orientate it one way.

1: Because for a single GPU it needs to go in the slot closest which means the 'push' is about 5mm off the back of the card. The other slots only operate at 8X not 16X.
2: I got Corsair Dominator ram and with this cooler it doesnt fit in the right slots (dimm 1&2)

So I need to return this heatsink and fans.

Does anyone know a decent cooler for the AM3 slot that will fit and won't get in the way of corsair dominator ram?

Thanks!!

P.S
OCuk should stock the Enermax Magma Twister 120mm fans! They are just as quiet as the noctua vertex fans (got 3 of them on my case) yet they seem to blow more air.

 

[dr4g0nf1y]

lol

that's the worsed placement I've seen on a board. I keep on recommending the zalman 9900.

I'm looking at mine now and it just goes over the socket fixings by about 5mm so I'm sure it'll fit your board.

I'm guessing that about 10mm you have to play with?

 

[Nelly]

Have you tried using slots 3&4? I know with my Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P the manual states I have the option of using slots 1&2 OR 3&4 in dual channel mode.

I had a similar sort of problem when I tried using OCZ Blades in slots 1&2 on my board the heatplates on the ram are just too high like the Corsair Dominators.

Another solution would be to just replace the ram with another set that uses standard sized hearplates like I did, the DDR3 Dominator kits are nothing special anyway compared to other kits, just fancy heatplates thats all.

I would stick with the cooler you have I am using the Thermalright 120 Ultra Black, they are one of the best CPU heatsinks you can have.

 

[spacedskunk]

Have you tried using slots 3&4? I know with my Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P the manual states I have the option of using slots 1&2 OR 3&4 in dual channel mode.

I had a similar sort of problem when I tried using OCZ Blades in slots 1&2 on my board the heatplates on the ram are just too high like the Corsair Dominators.

Another solution would be to just replace the ram with another set that uses standard sized hearplates like I did, the DDR3 Dominator kits are nothing special anyway compared to other kits, just fancy heatplates thats all.

I would stick with the cooler you have I am using the Thermalright 120 Ultra Black, they are one of the best CPU heatsinks you can have.

My computer will not boot with memory in dimm 1&2, or 3&4 or I would do mate. I've tried everything.

But tbh with the cooler with 2 fans on it, as I said it hits the GPU too, so effectively my pull fan would be pushing hot air onto the CPU. 8800GTX gets mega hot!