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ErrorsAllTheWay
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Hello,
 I currently have a steel legend b450 with a Ryzen 5 3600 and 16gb of Gskill Ripjaws. Recently my CPU started reaching idling temps of around 65 degree celcius with the stock cooler. I am thinking to get one more stick of ram and a cooler master hyper 620s. My only concern is whether i would be able to get that extra ram installed or the cooler would eat into its space. I dont want to get a smaller cooler as I might upgrade my system in the near future. Any help is appreciated, Thanks.

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22 minutes ago, ErrorsAllTheWay said:

Hello,
 I currently have a steel legend b450 with a Ryzen 5 3600 and 16gb of Gskill Ripjaws. Recently my CPU started reaching idling temps of around 65 degree celcius with the stock cooler. I am thinking to get one more stick of ram and a cooler master hyper 620s. My only concern is whether i would be able to get that extra ram installed or the cooler would eat into its space. I dont want to get a smaller cooler as I might upgrade my system in the near future. Any help is appreciated, Thanks.

Instead get a thermalright phantom spirit, much better cooler for less money

 

Secondly, if you raise the front fan up on this cooler you'll be able to fit both in no problem

System specs:

 

 

CPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3D [-30 PBO all core]

GPU: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX NITRO+

Motherboard: MSI MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI

RAM: G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO RGB 32GB 6000MHz CL32 DDR5

Storage: 2TB SN850X, 1TB SN850 w/ heatsink, 500GB P5 Plus (OS Storage)

Case: 5000D AIRFLOW

Cooler: Thermalright Frost Commander 140

PSU: Corsair RM850e

Case Fans: Fractal Prisma (120 x6, 140 x3) + 2x40mm fans

 

PCPartPicker List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/QYLBh3

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Most bigger air coolers can still fit bigger RAM sticks with no problems, either because the heatsink is offset towards the back of the case, or the front fan can be mounted higher, or both.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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39 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

Most bigger air coolers can still fit bigger RAM sticks with no problems, either because the heatsink is offset towards the back of the case, or the front fan can be mounted higher, or both.

Thanks brother, I went ahead and ordered it!

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On 7/30/2024 at 5:13 AM, ErrorsAllTheWay said:

Hello,
 I currently have a steel legend b450 with a Ryzen 5 3600 and 16gb of Gskill Ripjaws. Recently my CPU started reaching idling temps of around 65 degree celcius with the stock cooler. I am thinking to get one more stick of ram and a cooler master hyper 620s. My only concern is whether i would be able to get that extra ram installed or the cooler would eat into its space. I dont want to get a smaller cooler as I might upgrade my system in the near future. Any help is appreciated, Thanks.

FYI. Adding another stick may be fine if it is EXACTLY identical to the existing ones, but it is recommended to upgrade instead. Hopefully, you won't have trouble. 

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