I currently have a 5800x CPU and my MSI MEG X570 UNIFY motherboard is coming next week but I'm hoping to upgrade to a 5950x in future. So I want to get an air cooler that will work well with that too, to avoid having to faff about buying another cooler and selling the old one if/when I do upgrade.
I normally buy Crucial low profile RAM sticks because they always fit beneath any of the large air coolers but I couldn't do that this time as I needed to get dual rank. I've bought 32GB (2*16GB) Crucial Ballistix BL2K16G36C16U4B, having read posts here and elsewhere that suggest there's at least a reasonable chance this will be dual rank (fingers crossed!). These sticks are a bit higher than the LP sticks though, at around 36mm, which may be a bit tall for some air coolers.
The Noctua NH-D15 might work, as it says "In chassis with more than 165mm CPU cooler clearance, the front fan can be moved upwards to make room for memory modules taller than 32mm" and I'm probably going to use a Define R5 case, which has 180mm CPU clearance.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/noct...BjKxyI69s1ZPIx-zSu86UUeDTUye3edhoCw0IQAvD_BwE
I'm rather sensitive to noise and the Scythe Fuma 2 does very well at running quietly but sacrifices some cooling ability to achieve that. It appears to be designed with the heatsink offset away from the RAM slots to avoid blocking them, so it might be a good choice but it only seems to be available at the moment for around £80, instead of the £50 it's meant to cost, which affects the value-for-money conclusions in this review.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/scythe-fuma-2-dual-tower-cpu-cooler/9.html
The ALPENFOHN BROCKEN 3 is about £30 cheaper than the NH-D15 or the Fuma 2 at the moment, but it doesn't seem to be a brilliant cooler, being beaten by both the Hyper 212 BE and the Dark Rock Pro 4 in this test with an i7-7700k, with those two swapping position depending on whether the CPU was running at 4Ghz or 4.5Ghz.
https://www.kitguru.net/components/cooling/silas-newman/alpenfohn-brocken-3-revisited/5/
It's been a while since I built my last PC, so there's probably things I'm not even aware of with AM4 in general and the Unify in particular that might make some of these coolers unsuitable and perhaps there are other coolers that I've overlooked that would be more suitable?
I normally buy Crucial low profile RAM sticks because they always fit beneath any of the large air coolers but I couldn't do that this time as I needed to get dual rank. I've bought 32GB (2*16GB) Crucial Ballistix BL2K16G36C16U4B, having read posts here and elsewhere that suggest there's at least a reasonable chance this will be dual rank (fingers crossed!). These sticks are a bit higher than the LP sticks though, at around 36mm, which may be a bit tall for some air coolers.
The Noctua NH-D15 might work, as it says "In chassis with more than 165mm CPU cooler clearance, the front fan can be moved upwards to make room for memory modules taller than 32mm" and I'm probably going to use a Define R5 case, which has 180mm CPU clearance.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/noct...BjKxyI69s1ZPIx-zSu86UUeDTUye3edhoCw0IQAvD_BwE
I'm rather sensitive to noise and the Scythe Fuma 2 does very well at running quietly but sacrifices some cooling ability to achieve that. It appears to be designed with the heatsink offset away from the RAM slots to avoid blocking them, so it might be a good choice but it only seems to be available at the moment for around £80, instead of the £50 it's meant to cost, which affects the value-for-money conclusions in this review.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/scythe-fuma-2-dual-tower-cpu-cooler/9.html
The ALPENFOHN BROCKEN 3 is about £30 cheaper than the NH-D15 or the Fuma 2 at the moment, but it doesn't seem to be a brilliant cooler, being beaten by both the Hyper 212 BE and the Dark Rock Pro 4 in this test with an i7-7700k, with those two swapping position depending on whether the CPU was running at 4Ghz or 4.5Ghz.
https://www.kitguru.net/components/cooling/silas-newman/alpenfohn-brocken-3-revisited/5/
It's been a while since I built my last PC, so there's probably things I'm not even aware of with AM4 in general and the Unify in particular that might make some of these coolers unsuitable and perhaps there are other coolers that I've overlooked that would be more suitable?