[quotemsg=16151339,0,1986621]Although I liked this quarter's other two SBM builds, this one kinda sucked. The reason too is justified.
#1. Why 16GB? If this is supposed to be a gaming build (and even if were for light content creations), 8GB would've been very fine. You could've shoved $75 there
#2. 750W? You know you don't need that, Maxwell 2.0 is VERY power efficient, even at high OCs. Even if you were to go with 550W PSU, you'd still had plenty room to throw enough OC that WF3 cooler can handle, and still be left with CPU OC headroom. Yet, 650W should've sufficed. You could've shoved $50 there.
#3. With the extra $125 savings, you could've invested $75 more on an 240mm AiO cooler (or about $65 for a 120/140mm AiO) and the rest to a better case, or maybe even on a board that supports Wi-Fi or may have gone for few aesthetics.
What I think of this Gaming Build SBM is that, it wasn't so frugal and ofcourse, underwhelming.[/quotemsg]I don't think he needed a better cooler, check out his fan orientation in the build photo. Given his cooler fitment problem with the memory fins, I think he could have dropped a few degrees by reversing the rear fan and leaving the top fans as they were.
Oh, never mind that, he could have fixed the fan issue by leaving the case fans in stock orientation and putting the CPU fan on the front of the cooler, if only he had put the memory in the correct slots.
Sorry!