UD3 and cpu cooler

Thekwango · 13 Jan 2011 at 21:49

anyone got any experience of this motherboard P55A UD3 and cpu coolers that will fit without blocking the ram slots? currently have a l'il ole CM Hyper 212, but thinking of adding something a bit beefier and trying to oc the bejesus outta my cpu

but thus far any other coolers i look at, (akasa venom to name 1) going by their dimensions they're going to block the first 2 ram slots! then again i could be doing my measurements wrong!!

any suggestions folks?

Thekwango · 13 Jan 2011 at 22:12

looking at the titan, i assume you me the titan fenrir evo, going by its dimensions it looks to be actually bigger than the Venom, in which case i don't think it'll work either. and when you say they can be mounted either way round, i assume you mean with the fan pointing either west/east or north/south?

as for the TRUE, is that the thermalright true black you are referring to?

Thekwango · 14 Jan 2011 at 19:48

i'm running a set of these g-skill ripjaws

the heat spreaders on these are pretty high, may have to look at changing these out

Thekwango · 14 Jan 2011 at 20:41

will do, see if i can find my camera, she keeps borrowing it tho so it could be anywhere :mad:

Thekwango · 14 Jan 2011 at 21:11

head on view, the hyper 212 is far from the biggest cooler on the market and is nearly covering the first ram slot

from the side and the ripjaws are a good few mil 'into' fan, if you know what i mean

stulid said:
Some one had a build log with this motherboard and a titan fenrir evo, barely a rizzla paper between the fan and the top of the XMS3 ram.

any idea what height those XMS3 are?

setter said:
I ran a TRUE black for a while, no issues with very tall ocz reaper ram, even if i wanted to use 12gb of ram, the latest iteration of this cooler is the thermalright venomous x, a very highly rated cooler. Im now on a prolimatech super mega, fits ok with 6gb installed but 12gb of ram is a no no.

must have a look at the dimensions of the venomous x again.

cheers for the info so far all.

Thekwango · 14 Jan 2011 at 21:25

yea just found out they are slightly lower than the ripjaws i'm using, so thats the fenrir evo ruled out, 1 more cooler option bites the dust :mad:

seeming more and more likely i may have to look at the h50 or 70, and not liking either of those 2 options

Thekwango · 14 Jan 2011 at 21:38

looks like we may have a winner..........

hyper 212 dimensions

venomous x dimensions

the venomous x is only 6mil wider with 25mil fan added than the hyper, so will cover slot 1, but hey ho i can live with that

have a cookie setter

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cheers everyone

Thekwango · 15 Jan 2011 at 01:14

well i aint planning on adding extra ram just yet. what i'm thinking, and i could be wrong, is that i've been able to run my cpu @ 3.6 on stock volts 24/7 without any problems on the hyper. so hoping with a better cooler and a few notches on the volts i should be able to get it considerably higher.

Thekwango · 15 Jan 2011 at 12:55

Well all I really do is read this forum! And play a bit of bfbc2, also it's been suggested to me that I may have struck lucky and have a good oc'ing cpu. I'd been toying with selling up and going sandybridge but I'm gonna give my i5-750 a chance to prove how high it'll go. Just a shame OcUK don't stock the VX!!