Possible to put a thinner fan on this CPU heatsink?

JohnJSal

JohnJSal

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I'm considering the CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo, but apparently if the fan is installed on the RAM side, it will cover up one of the RAM slots. This isn't a big deal right now, since I only plan to get 2x4GB of RAM, but in the future, if I want to add more, does anyone know if this particular cooler will allow you to put a thinner fan on it? I think the fan that comes with it is 25mm thick, but then again maybe no fan will be thin enough to allow the space for the first RAM slot?

Anyway, here's a picture of what it would roughly look like, although this isn't that specific fan: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/711ctb3eWlL.jpg
 
You can always put the fan on the opposite side and make it pull the hot air away from the heatsink instead of pushing it away.
 
johnb35 said:
You can always put the fan on the opposite side and make it pull the hot air away from the heatsink instead of pushing it away.
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But if you did that, wouldn't the fan be blowing the air into the PC case (across the HS), rather than toward the rear exhaust fan?
 
Right now it should blowing air through the heatsink to the rear exhause fan, all you need to do is just move it to the other side without turning it so that it pulls the hot air away from the heatsink and shoots it to the exhause fan.
 
johnb35 said:
Right now it should blowing air through the heatsink to the rear exhause fan, all you need to do is just move it to the other side without turning it so that it pulls the hot air away from the heatsink and shoots it to the exhause fan.
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But wouldn't that involve having to change the direction of the brackets that are attached? I think the way that it comes the brackets are already attached to the fan. But I'm not sure.
 
I believe they are attached but my hyper 212+ came with another bracket and may be possible to remove the existing and just move it to the other side.
 
Benny Boy said:
If you get low profile memory, it should fit.
Is the board in the pic the one you have? Gigabyte 970A ?
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No, that's not my picture, I just used it as an example of how the fan might extend over the first RAM slot. I actually haven't settled on a board yet.
 
Really the fan hanging over does not matter much. Mine (212 evo) hangs over and I do not have low profile memory (Patriot Gamer 2) and it works in slots 1 and 3 just fine. You just have to install the memory in DIMM 1 before you install the HSF. I would also suggest that you but normal DIMMs over a extended DIMM (like Vengence RAM).
 
wolfeking said:
Really the fan hanging over does not matter much. Mine (212 evo) hangs over and I do not have low profile memory (Patriot Gamer 2) and it works in slots 1 and 3 just fine. You just have to install the memory in DIMM 1 before you install the HSF. I would also suggest that you but normal DIMMs over a extended DIMM (like Vengence RAM).
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Hmm, I was considering the Vengeance RAM. Is there a particular spec I should look for that describes the height of the stick, or if it's "low profile" or whatnot?
 
I didn't mean memory thats neccessarily labeled Low Profile. Just lower than the tall Vengeance. There's also Vengeance LP. Something like the hieght of GSkill Ripjaws fits.
 
You can also move the fan up a little to clear the heat spreaders to. That is what I did on my EVO. Just un-clip it move it up a little and clip it back on. I have G.Skill Snipers in mine.
 
wolfeking said:
That seems like a half hearted fix for it. It is much easier to just buy the right RAM to start with.
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I agree. I also read on Amazon that someone put the RAM in and it had to bend a little to fit against the HSF. I definitely don't want to do that either.

If the GSkill Ripjaws RAM isn't too tall, I may go with that. It has an extremely high rating on Newegg.
 
"Wolfeking"

It might be a "half hearted fix". But it still cleared my heat spreaders and the fan still covered my whole heat sink. And it was just a suggestion.
 
I know. But there are ways to put it together without having to mod the fan location (move it up). DDR3 runs cool, even at 2133+ MHz. There is no need for the big heatsinks, so buy a normal sized one and your fan will be fine. Or if you use 2 DIMMs, then use the second channel and you will still be fine.
 
wolfeking said:
I know. But there are ways to put it together without having to mod the fan location (move it up). DDR3 runs cool, even at 2133+ MHz. There is no need for the big heatsinks, so buy a normal sized one and your fan will be fine. Or if you use 2 DIMMs, then use the second channel and you will still be fine.
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What's a good suggestion for a normal sized HSF?
 
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