Something has to change....

[The Dirts]

Hi guys,

In my haste to upgrade the kids PC (from a AMD s939 3800+, 2gb ram, win xp and take advantage of the cheap win 8 upgrade), and before the wife found out , I screwed up slightly.

Basically the cooler doesn't clear the RAM and atm the ram is leaning slightly about 3 to 5mm. So something has to change and it's going to be whatever is cheapest, whether it's memory, cooler or motherboard.

The memory is this stuff Here which works perfectly I might add. The rest is this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £79.99
1 x ASRock FM2A55M-DGS AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £44.99
1 x Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £16.94
Total : £153.32 (includes shipping : £9.50).

So, any recommendations? The ram is 50mm tall and the gap to the bottom of the cooler is about 33mm. Would like to keep the ram @ 2133 if possible and 8gb. Using the stock cooler is not an option !!

Thanks

 

[nick.lidgett]

What ram is it? Can you take the heat spreader off one or two of the modules? Thats what i had to do with my corsair to fit under. Normally you can heat them up with a hair dryer and prize them off carefully ( i used a plastic spork). Its normally just clipped at the corners and glued on the chips comes of ok.

 

[Supraphil]

Cant you just use the stock cooler that came with the CPU?

 

[Idleman]

Cant you just use the stock cooler that came with the CPU?

Using the stock cooler is not an option !!

 

[nick.lidgett]

Smart arse