ASRock extreme4 questions

[marcusg83]

just wondering what some really good aftermarket cpu coolers will fit on this motherboard. i'm not looking for liquid cooling but something like a hyper 212 evo. just wondering if there is anything better out there that will NOT interfere with high profile RAM or the top PCI-E slot

thank you very much


Just so everyone knows, the is the z87 version. For the new haswell cpu's. If that makes any difference

 

[Zac Lloyd-Jones]

The Hyper 212 Evo you mentioned is a great buy for the price. It may interfere though with high profile RAM but you can easily overcome this by putting the fan in a pull configuration or mounting the fan slightly higher up the cooler. I thought I was going to have to do that with my Hyper 212 Evo on my MSI Z87 G45 mobo but I managed to shimmy it down into position.

Also depends what RAM slots the Asrock uses. Luckily the G45 uses slots 2 and 4 first.