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It's worth pointing out that there are many more choices of 120mm fans than there are 140mm fans and manufacturers are still working to optimize mechanics and designs for 140mm. At the moment, there are only a handful of 140mm fans which can match the upper levels of the 120mm fan market...

Additionally, that initial site you listed is filled with various other forms of quackery, including the dangers of cell phones and Wi-Fi (which seems possible for people who don't understand electromagnetic radiation) and an article warning people about how mercury causes autism, despite the...

Where did you hear that? Everything I've seen has quoted the off-gassing to begin around 500F. That is scorching hot as far as frying goes. Even the article you quoted lists 464F. The citation seems believable. The only form of frying that routinely uses heat that high is stir frying, which...

Okay... this is really easier than it sounds. Can you fry in a frying pan? Yes, of course. That's what they're for. I think the key thing that some people are missing is this: Temperature. The decomposition of Teflon doesn't start to occur until 500F (cite). If you keep your pan under 500F...

No problem. The discussion is a bit roundabout. More like: The focus was to find a heatsink that will work with RAM which I've already purchased. Yeah, that was my plan, too. But I was able to buy 16GB of DDR3-1600 for just $135. Sniper RAM was still at $175. Of course, since then it...

It's really not. I just expected to be able to find more people using it. As for the reason why I even considered it: I looked at the Hyper 212 and it should work, but I plan to overclock, none of the cases I was looking at had a direct forced-air path to the CPU, and the location the computer...

Well, its nice to hear that my calculations weren't far off. If I understand correctly, the RAM should seat directly on the motherboard PCB, so... there we are. 40mm is the max height, requiring some fan shifting. I'm actually a bit torn. I'm really leaning toward the MUX, just to avoid the...

For the most part, the heat spreaders are unnecessary. There are some situations (fanless liquid cooling boxes, builds which largely obstruct any air flow to the RAM) where they are helpful, but so long as you've got air circulating and aren't over-volting them, then there's no real benefit to...

Well... er... it would be cool to get some confirmation from someone who actually owns the heatsink, but I'm not going to think less of you if you don't. The definitive numbers would be: The distance from the motherboard surface to the bottom of the TY-140 The distance from the surface of the...

Okay... I'm silly. I've been struggling over this question for a week now, totally forgetting that I've got all four sticks of Ripjaws X sitting in a room upstairs. A tape measure and Google (for the conversion) later, and I can confirm that the Ripjaws X is 40mm tall, and shows no change from...

I was under th impression that the Ripjaws were just short enough to avoid the fan, while the Corsair Vengeance (which DrBoss has) was just a little too tall. I asked him about it. We'll see what he says.

I got referred to this thread, and rightly so. I've got a 2600K build in the pipeline that is surprisingly close to this one. I've only got the P8P67, C300 instead of X-25M, and I'll be using the 650D instead of the Define R3. The other big difference is that I've got 16GB of Ripjaws X. I'm...

Okay, this is going to seem like a silly question, but let me explain. I've got a 2600K (and I'm embarrassed about it), a P8P67 to put it in, and 16GB of G.SKILL Ripjaws X (1600). At the moment, I'm looking to put them all in a Corsair 650D, but if Fractal Design decides to release the Arc...

I suppose the missing bit of information here is that I was buying a 4x4GB set. So, yeah: All four slots filled. Doesn't matter all that much in the end. The Archon was overkill anyway, and if I'm worried about clearance, I should be fine with a Venomous-X or MUX-120 (Black).

Well the plan was to use these in one of the Asus P8P67s (base or pro, probably). Hmm... Maybe I could switch to a MUX-120 Black instead of the Archon. Just trying to keep TR in the running for being my heatsink.