EVGA GeForce GTX 980, bottleneck?

[Frank0]

Hello!

My setup today:

MSI Z77 MPOWER
Intel Core i7 3770K 3.5 GHz
Corsair Vengeance DIMM 240-pin 16GB 1600MHz
ASUS Radeon HD 7970 GHz 3GB GDDR5

I'm considering an EVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0 HDMI 3xDP 4GB, will any of my current parts bottleneck?

I'm also going to buy new cooling for my CPU, I have the stock fan today. Considering a Noctua NH-D15, but it's pretty big sizewise. Will it interfere with the memory modules? What CPU-fan does you recommend?

 

[Automatiic]

You won't bottleneck with that setup. You'll be fine.

As for the Noctua, you generally needs "low profile" RAM modules so it won't impact.

Here is a compatibility chart from Noctua's website that shows what RAM modules will fit and which ones won't.

Compatibility Chart

 

[Frank0]

You won't bottleneck with that setup. You'll be fine.

As for the Noctua, you generally needs "low profile" RAM modules so it won't impact.

Here is a compatibility chart from Noctua's website that shows what RAM modules will fit and which ones won't.

Compatibility Chart

Ah thanks, I'm using these today. And if I'm reading the compatibility chart right, they will not work. I need 32 GB ram for work and it feels dumb to buy new memory to be able to change the fan. Will cost me about 300 €.

What I understand the NH-U12S works with my setup, but will it cool enough? I'm not after extreme overclocking, somewhere between 4-4,5 GHZ.

Isn't there no other manufacturer that doesn't need replacing my memory?

 

[Automatiic]

Personally, if you have room to mount it in your case, I would get the Corsair H100i. It's what I have and it works beautifully.

See it HERE

 

[Littlesackninja]

Personally, if you have room to mount it in your case, I would get the Corsair H100i. It's what I have and it works beautifully.

See it HERE

The NH-D15 cools better than a H100i, more reliable, quieter, and is in general better, no reason to get a H100i unless its quite a bit cheaper, NH-D15 also has cutouts in the heatsink for tall ram modules, so no worries there.

 

[Automatiic]

Personally, if you have room to mount it in your case, I would get the Corsair H100i. It's what I have and it works beautifully.

See it HERE

The NH-D15 cools better than a H100i, more reliable, quieter, and is in general better, no reason to get a H100i unless its quite a bit cheaper, NH-D15 also has cutouts in the heatsink for tall ram modules, so no worries there.

I agree the Noctua is a great unit but if it won't fit with his current RAM and it's not worth it to spend the money to change his RAM, then the H100i is a great replacement.

Not to mention the benchmarks I see show the Noctua cooling by an extra 2-3C? Who cares about that haha

 

[Littlesackninja]

Personally, if you have room to mount it in your case, I would get the Corsair H100i. It's what I have and it works beautifully.

See it HERE

The NH-D15 cools better than a H100i, more reliable, quieter, and is in general better, no reason to get a H100i unless its quite a bit cheaper, NH-D15 also has cutouts in the heatsink for tall ram modules, so no worries there.

I agree the Noctua is a great unit but if it won't fit with his current RAM and it's not worth it to spend the money to change his RAM, then the H100i is a great replacement.

Not to mention the benchmarks I see show the Noctua cooling by an extra 2-3C? Who cares about that haha

1. It can be more than 1-2c.
2. The Noctua will fit, it has cutouts in the heatsink to allow for tall heatsinks, no reason to get H100i.

 

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You may be able to use an allen wrench to remove tall memory heatsink spreaders. That worked with my Corsair Dominator memory.