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- Jan 4, 2012
Hey all,
So I'm in the process of acquiring parts for a build for the father in law. I'm putting together a low price gaming rig for him, and at the heart of it will be an fx-8310 I got for 110 dollars. I'll be overclocking that hopefully to about 4.4ish at least, and need a cooler for it. I was looking at the 212 evo as it's performance is awesome for the price, but I'm fairly certain it will be blocking one of the DIMM slots on the gigabyte 970a-ud3 which will be an issue if he wants to upgrade to 16 gigs of ram in the future.
My options thus far: The 212 in a pull setup, or push pull if I buy one of these 120 mm slim fans (http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l3/g36/c15/s972/list/p1/Fans-12_Volt_Fans-120mm_x_12mm_Fans-Page1.html).
Are there any coolers you'd recommend for around the same price that maybe don't take up so much space? I was thinking about grabbing another CNPS 9700 (same as mine) as I know it will fit with high profile ram, but it's pretty old at this point and I imagine there are many better options for the same price.
So I'm in the process of acquiring parts for a build for the father in law. I'm putting together a low price gaming rig for him, and at the heart of it will be an fx-8310 I got for 110 dollars. I'll be overclocking that hopefully to about 4.4ish at least, and need a cooler for it. I was looking at the 212 evo as it's performance is awesome for the price, but I'm fairly certain it will be blocking one of the DIMM slots on the gigabyte 970a-ud3 which will be an issue if he wants to upgrade to 16 gigs of ram in the future.
My options thus far: The 212 in a pull setup, or push pull if I buy one of these 120 mm slim fans (http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l3/g36/c15/s972/list/p1/Fans-12_Volt_Fans-120mm_x_12mm_Fans-Page1.html).
Are there any coolers you'd recommend for around the same price that maybe don't take up so much space? I was thinking about grabbing another CNPS 9700 (same as mine) as I know it will fit with high profile ram, but it's pretty old at this point and I imagine there are many better options for the same price.