Question Heat sink very close to Ram

[silenthunt316]

Hey guys happy Memorial Day weekend, I just got the noctua d15. And the front fan in numbing into the ram. Not putting pressure on it or nothing. What should I do? Any help will be appreciated

 

[FoxVoxDK]

So I do it with a knife ?

Yes, you can, just for the love of your fingers and various body parts, do be careful.

It should not actually be touching the case.
However...someone on either end may have fudged the specs by a teeny bit.

I'm putting my money on Cooler Master doing the fudging.

 

[USAFRet]

Further, when using 2 fans, the outside fan has 32mm clearance over the RAM.

 

[silenthunt316]

Same lol

 

[silenthunt316]

Yea it’s weird. If I can send a pic. I would but I don’t know how to upload from my phone

 

[FoxVoxDK]

Yea it’s weird. If I can send a pic. I would but I don’t know how to upload from my phone

You can just take the pics with your phone and put them on Imgur or imgbb hosting site. Then post the links here.

 

[silenthunt316]

Ok give me a sec

 

[silenthunt316]

https://imgur.com/k2lwwMe

View: https://imgur.com/k2lwwMe
here you go. The distance between the fan and the ram

 

[FoxVoxDK]

They are touching, but with some finagling, you could carve a groove for the RAM heat spreader.
Alternatively, raise the fan, and see how close to the side-panel you are, and grind that excess off.

Other actions would be to see if there's room for the fan on the other side of the cooling tower, are those DIMM slots also occupied?
Buying a smaller fan, or maybe you have one laying about?

 

[silenthunt316]

These are the only fans I have. I think I’ll carve it out. It’s a very good idea. Or I use sandpaper

 

[USAFRet]

I certainly wouldn't be comfortable with it touching.

However, at the other end, you have little or no space to work with.

 

[silenthunt316]

Yea I don’t like it touching. I’ll sand paper it until there’s an opening. It should be a little bit.

 

[FoxVoxDK]

These are the only fans I have. I think I’ll carve it out. It’s a very good idea. Or I use sandpaper

If you use sandpaper, try and make sure that no debris enter the center hub of the fan, Noctua makes great fan hubs, but no reason to get any foreign object into the "engine".

 

[silenthunt316]

ok thank you for letting me know. Now is there any case that’s bigger than mine and more economic ? So if this doesn’t work

 

[FoxVoxDK]

ok thank you for letting me know. Now is there any case that’s bigger than mine and more economic ? So if this doesn’t work

Poke @USAFRet, he's definitely better at case finding than I am, my computer is literally in a 10 year old case, so it is not my specialty!

 

[silenthunt316]

Lol ok. 👌🏼. @USAFRet if you can find one. I would appreciate it. If not I’ll look into it

 

[USAFRet]

How many RAM sticks, and what slots are they in?

 

[silenthunt316]

I have 3 sticks. The furthest three slots to the right

 

[Phaaze88]

Wait a minute, there's nothing wrong with the D15's fans touching the ram - it was designed to do that...

Noctua cooler height - 165mm
https://noctua.at/en/nh-d15/specification

Case cooler clearance - 167mm
https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/cases/mid-tower/masterbox-pro-5-rgb/#Specifications

It should not actually be touching the case.
However...someone on either end may have fudged the specs by a teeny bit.

Doesn't take into account the height of the OP's ram heatsinks.
A naked stick is like 31mm, so if the ram heatsink is a couple mm taller than that...

2 older pics of my D15S. The front fan literally sits on top of the ram, which is G. Skill Ripjaws V.
Phanteks Enthoo 719:

https://imgur.com/4xl66ty

View: https://imgur.com/4xl66ty


Cooler Master H500P Mesh

https://imgur.com/0X4r04R

View: https://imgur.com/0X4r04R

 

[silenthunt316]

@Phaaze88 this is how close it is thohttps://imgur.com/k2lwwMe

 

[silenthunt316]

https://imgur.com/k2lwwMe

View: https://imgur.com/k2lwwMe

 

[Phaaze88]

@Phaaze88 this is how close it is thohttps://imgur.com/k2lwwMe

I saw that already. There's nothing wrong with that at all. Noctua designed the cooler to do that.
They know how big it is. It's supposed to do that. The problem here is your ram height with it's heatspreader.

 

[silenthunt316]

So what do you recommend?

 

[Phaaze88]

NH-D15 height: 165mm
Masterbox Pro 5: 167mm
Adata XPG ram: whatever it's height is, it's larger than 31mm. Seeing as it ~JUST keeps you from closing the side panel, it must be 33-34mm.

So what do you recommend?

Easy. Just remove the front fan. That's the cheapest route. It's basically a NH-D15S - minus the tilt - at that point.
The expensive alternative is to go and get a 120mm fan.

 

[silenthunt316]

Ok. Two questions , first, without the front fan will it still cool good? , second can a 120mm fan Be attached to this cooler?

 

[USAFRet]

Or, will that encroaching fan mount on the other side of the cooler, pulling through...