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Clearance For RAM

JoeyShoes
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You can also move fan upwards slightly if your case allows that. With turning cooler fins can also obstruct RAM slots. And usually do.

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So right now my CPU (i5 7600K) is being cooled by a H5 Ultimate which sadly is interrupting the use of one of my DIMM slots making adding another set of RAM impossible. I am considering buying another set of RAM but need to deal with the cooling issue first. Would it be very detrimental to temperatures to either A) Move the fan to the opposite side; or B) Rotate the air cooler. Currently the fan is doing intake for the air cooler.

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Move it to the back of the heatsink as a pull configuration.

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CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K, 5GHz Delidded LM || CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C14S w/ NF-A15 & NF-A14 Chromax fans in push-pull cofiguration || Motherboard: MSI Z370i Gaming Pro Carbon AC || RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2x8Gb 2666 || GPU: EVGA GTX 1060 6Gb FTW2+ DT || Storage: Samsung 860 Evo M.2 SATA SSD 250Gb, 2x 2.5" HDDs 1Tb & 500Gb || ODD: 9mm Slim DVD RW || PSU: Corsair SF600 80+ Platinum || Case: Cougar QBX + 1x Noctua NF-R8 front intake + 2x Noctua NF-F12 iPPC top exhaust + Cougar stock 92mm DC fan rear exhaust || Monitor: ASUS VG248QE || Keyboard: Ducky One 2 Mini Cherry MX Red || Mouse: Logitech G703 || Audio: Corsair HS70 Wireless || Other: XBox One S Controler

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