I'm trying to find a good cooler that doesn't take up a ton of space on my motherboard which is a Gigabyte X79 UP4. The current cooler covers up several of my DIMMS forcing me to install my RAM in a different order than suggested by my boards manual. I had to install some low profile memory from G-Skill that I have kept just for testing purposes. I'd like to use a 32 BG DDR 3 1866 Kit from Patriot but the heat spreader is a pinch to tall. The other problem is the current cooler the Silverstone HEO1 is wide enough I had to put my video card a HIS IceQ X2 Radeon 7970 in the second PCIE x16 slot. It seems to be working fine but it limits me from going to a Crossfire configuration with the x16 slots.
I was looking at the XIGMATEK Dark Knight II Night Hawk Edition even though it seems to be a fairly tall cooler it should fit in my case, a NZXT SWITCH 810 full tower. Any suggestions other than going to water cooling would be welcomed. I need to make this system last for a couple of years and the board does give me some wiggle room to do that.
I was looking at the XIGMATEK Dark Knight II Night Hawk Edition even though it seems to be a fairly tall cooler it should fit in my case, a NZXT SWITCH 810 full tower. Any suggestions other than going to water cooling would be welcomed. I need to make this system last for a couple of years and the board does give me some wiggle room to do that.
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