[SOLVED] rotate cpu cooler 90 degrees or raise?

[tsomek]

Hi all,

I want to make space for an additional RAM that is currently slightly too tall to fit below my cooler.

With this in mind, I wanted to rotate my Noctua CPU cooler by 90 degrees. Is it possible to do this?

The current mount does only allow me to rotate 180 degrees, so it seems I would need to mount something on top, or replace the one I have at the moment.

An alternative to rotating would be to raise the cooler about 10mm, to fit the RAM.


Any ideas or advice on what/how to do this?


Many thanks!

 

[Lutfij]

Are we to go with the cooler and your specs as stated in your signature space? If so, please include it in your thread's body. Specs in a signature space can and will change over the course of your upgrades. When that happens this thread and it's solution will end up being irrelevant to the person in the same boat(issue) as you.

I'll do the honors but please do so in the future.

AMD FX-8350
Noctua NH-C12P SE14
ASRock 970M Pro3
BitFenix Phenom M
Corsair CX 430W
16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro
ZOTAC GTX 1060 6GB
120GB Samsung 850EVO
NZXT GRID+ v2
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit

Raising the cooler isn't a valid option here since you will need to maintain contact with your CPU IHS or else risk burning the chip due to lack of cooling surface/heat dissipation.

You might want to loot a tower cooler or perhaps an AIO to solve this issue in one motion.

 

[tsomek]

Are we to go with the cooler and your specs as stated in your signature space? If so, please include it in your thread's body. Specs in a signature space can and will change over the course of your upgrades. When that happens this thread and it's solution will end up being irrelevant to the person in the same boat(issue) as you.

I'll do the honors but please do so in the future.

AMD FX-8350
Noctua NH-C12P SE14
ASRock 970M Pro3
BitFenix Phenom M
Corsair CX 430W
16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro
ZOTAC GTX 1060 6GB
120GB Samsung 850EVO
NZXT GRID+ v2
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit

Raising the cooler isn't a valid option here since you will need to maintain contact with your CPU IHS or else risk burning the chip due to lack of cooling surface/heat dissipation.

You might want to loot a tower cooler or perhaps an AIO to solve this issue in one motion.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply and apologies for not listing my hardware - I do keep the signature up-to-date and assumed this was sufficient, so yes the list you provided is correct.

I was hoping to not spend too much money on this, and unfortunately both your solutions are replacing a perfectly well-working cooler.

Do you know if there are maybe mounts that would allow a 90 degree installation of the same cooler instead?

Or any other lower cost solution to the above? 😀

Many thanks

 

[kerberos_20]

what RAM do you have? to see if it could safely run without heatsink
i once had simmilar issue, easy solution to this was removing heatsink from ram module (50C degrees without heatsink)
another solution would ge gettin different cooler or low profile ram kits

 

[tsomek]

what RAM do you have? to see if it could safely run without heatsink
i once had simmilar issue, easy solution to this was removing heatsink from ram module (50C degrees without heatsink)
another solution would ge gettin different cooler or low profile ram kits

Hi there

These are my new ones (too tall), of which I have been able to install just one module.
Corsair CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz CL10 XMP
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006EWUO22/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_detailpage_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I also have already 2 modules of these installed (they fit).
Vengeance Pro Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel (CMY8GX3M2A2
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/corsair-vengeance-pro-red-8gb-2x4gb-ddr3-pc3-19200c11-2400mhz-dual-channel-memory-kit-cmy8gx3m2a2-my-382-cs.html


As they are below the cooler, I do think they could be getting some of the air which is blown through the heatsink?

What do you think?

 

[kerberos_20]

its fine, i had similar vengeance clocked at 1866 cl9, they never went over 50 degrees without heatsink
anywayy u could replace heatsink with something more low profile (if ure worried about stability
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Desktop-Aluminum-Heatsink-RAMCOOLERBL/dp/B000HVHCCG

 

[tsomek]

its fine, i had similar vengeance clocked at 1866 cl9, they never went over 50 degrees without heatsink
anywayy u could replace heatsink with something more low profile (if ure worried about stability
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Desktop-Aluminum-Heatsink-RAMCOOLERBL/dp/B000HVHCCG

Hi again,

Thanks, that's a really good tip.

Will most likely remove the original RAM heatsink and take it from there. If they create issues I will buy one of those heatsinks you are proposing.

Many thanks!