Need some help with clearance ram/cooler clearance issues.
Just now, Silly Ducklings said:I've read between 40mm and 45mms, and the dominator platinum is around 55mms IIRC. I was less asking about the clearance of the ram itself, and more about if I could put the ram in a wonky configuration on the motherboard and still have it work properly. I think I could get it to fit If I put two on each end of it, but I doubt that would work properly.
Still confused about the 2 sticks of 16 gigs though, maybe "unbuffered" means some fancy thing I don't understand and doesn't apply to normal ram...? Hopefully that's the case, since we'll probably be getting 2x16 LPX dimms instead of platinums.
The config you're talking about with the RAM in slots 1 and 4 would likely work, but I think you won't be running in dual channel, meaning a small hit to performance. There's no way an X99 board with 4 slots doesn't support 2x16GB DIMMS, so as for the capacity I also think you're fine. Do you need to go with that config though? Unless he's going to want to upgrade to a capacity exceeding 32GB, I would prob just go 4x8GB for safety's sake, depending on how easy returns will be for wherever you're buying everything from.
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