This cooler any good?

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Yeh i was thinking about the Akasa Venom, but will it fit nicely enough in my 902 for me to be able to use a side panel fan? My Baram comes very close to the side panel.
 
take some measurements with a tape measure, from the motherboard surface to the sidepanel.

then subtract the side fan depth.

The venom is 160mm tall.
 
I've always thought that a side fan messes up the airflow in your system, out of interest why would you want to fit one?
 
I have re venom and it's gr8!!. I've got the i5 760 overclocked to 4ghz with temps of 30-35'c idle and 60'c fully loaded on prime95! And u can add another fan to it as well, I've just order another venom fan as well to see what temps I get with 2fans
 
I've just got the Titan Fenrir Evo for my 955 BE. Going to fit it tomorrow, will let you know how much of a difference it makes.

I did a bit of digging and it seemed to be a toss up between the Evo and the Gelid Tranquilo. Decided to go on the safe side and get extra cooling - the noise of my case fan's should make cooler noise irrelevant.
 
I've always thought that a side fan messes up the airflow in your system, out of interest why would you want to fit one?

Yeah thats right, I used to have a 1200, putting the side fan on actually increased CPU temps by a coupla degrees and made no difference to GPU temps either, if you want better cooling youd be better just replacing the stock case fans with something better, I fitted Noctua S12s to my case and it made it about 10C cooler as well as whisper quiet
 
I've got the venom in my case (CM-690II Adv) and I can't have a side fan that high up, my case does have the option of putting a fan lower down on the side though.
 
im running a Coolit E.C.O here, runs very very cool (no pun intended) on a non-clocked i7 930, temps of 31c idle, 38c load and very happy with it.
 
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