So indecisive I feel locked up. Planning an X570/5900x build with one of these coolers and feel like there's going to be compromises either way because of my case. What would you do in this situation?
D15
Pros
Pros
D15
Pros
- The no-compromise market leader in air cooling
- Comes with 2 fans, and mounting clips for them
- Always have the option to run 1 fan
- Will create RAM clearance issues with 2 fans, unless I go low profile but that will limit my options, which feels like an issue with an AMD build
- Very tall, so within 2 mm of my case's CPU cooler vertical clearance. Not so much worried about fit, but airflow and looks since it will be jammed up to the window.
Pros
- No vertical clearance issues whatsoever because 5mm lower
- Fits a wider variety of RAM
- On the FT02, the D15S's offset puts it much closer to my PSU than GPU. I assume this is worse for cooling? Wouldn't the PSU radiate more heat the GPU's backplate?
- I don't see an extra pair of fan clips for the D15S, so running two fans (maybe a 120mm bottom) is questionable.