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?

Ch3m1c4L · 13 Jan 2011 at 21:50

for overclocking the TRUE or TITAN are regarded as bet, and I think you can mount them either way round so should be ok?

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?

Si105 · 14 Jan 2011 at 01:02

Personally i'd shop around and getting the cheapest standard Fenrir you can get and then put your own fan on it.

Ch3m1c4L · 14 Jan 2011 at 11:19

TRUE = thermalright ultra extreme. Most people use one of those two so they should fit most boards. when I say either way round I mean you can mount them in any direction so either the width or height is what will go from right to left on your board.

What ram are you running, as most of these coolers have a heat plate on bottom, then heat pipes that go up into the heatsink, which is normal plenty high enough above the RAM?

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

Ch3m1c4L · 14 Jan 2011 at 20:31

They arent that high, can you post a picture of your setup, of the RAm area, from an angle where you could see how high they come up, preferably with some cooler that you know the dimensions of, for comparisons sake

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:

setter · 14 Jan 2011 at 20:46

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.

stulid · 14 Jan 2011 at 20:46

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.

Found it - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18203134

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.

stulid · 14 Jan 2011 at 21:18

Thekwango said:
any idea what height those XMS3 are?

No, but I can almost guarantee they are the smallest on the market with a heatspreader.

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

setter · 14 Jan 2011 at 22:08

Yep, the vx is very good, the TRUE was 64mm wide, heres a pic of it fitted onto my board with ocz reapers.

As you may notice, the ram was in the wrong slots when i took that pic, (should have been in the orange slots),

but it did let me know that i could fit more ram if i needed it, there was about 5mm between the fan and the ram stick, worst thing about reapers is the gargantuan heatpipe fitted to them.

Ch3m1c4L · 14 Jan 2011 at 22:57

if you only use one fan you could stick it on the other side of the heatsink? If you mut use two, you could use one of those Scythe (i think) thin fans that is about half the depth of a normal fan, and that would leave your ram slots free. I know it would slightly decrease cooling performance, but if you want your ram slots then it might be a better plan.

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.

Ch3m1c4L · 15 Jan 2011 at 09:34

indeed, should work. extra RAM will basically disble your OC so its not worth adding unless you are rendering or soemthing that benefits more from loads of RAM than cpu speed.

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!!