CPU air cooler advise that won't interfere with RAM

radabz · 23 Nov 2019 at 11:34

RAM type is patriot viper
PVS416G373C7K

Motherboard is
ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi)

Case is
Corsair iCUE 220T RGB Airflow

Which is 160mm clearence.

I'm looking at the Noctua NH-U12A just now as it seems the best fit and it's also pretty quiet.

Any others I should check out?

radabz · 23 Nov 2019 at 22:52

Thanks, I'll have a look at that one.

radabz · 23 Nov 2019 at 22:54

drakulton said:
Why did you buy such tall memory when you're wanting to stick a high end air cooler on top of it???

I didn't think it was that tall, I just didn't want to order and find out something didn't fit.

There's no rgb or any of that nonsense.

radabz · 24 Nov 2019 at 00:15

drakulton said:
Didn't you spec the memory height before ordering it?

Yes but I read somewhere that you have an extra 5mm as the cooler measurement doesn't allow for the difference in cpu mount height and ram mount height.

I've done a fair bit of research but just wanted some other advise in case I had missed some company I'd never heard of or something like that.

The memory was picked as it was the best price to speed and what I want ratio and was the shortest one in that bracket.

I'm not a complete muppet.

I think I'm going to stick with the noctua as I don't mind paying a bit more for this component.