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Coolermaster Hyper 212 plus question.

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ingeborgdot

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I am putting together a new build with a hyper 212 plus and some corsair vengeance memory that goes right beside it. The problem is that the hyper 212 extends slightly into the 1st slot of memory. The vengeance memory is way too high with the heatsink on it. What can I do? Can I put the fan on the cooler to pull instead of push or will I lose some cooling? Do I need to get different memory? Can I take off the heatsink on the first stick? Thanks.
 
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With the hyper 212 it's possible to mount the fan closest to the memory higher up on the heatsink. If you look at the fanmount you'll see the clips that attach it to the heatsink. You can shift the mount up till the clips are at the top of the heatsink.
 
How much will that affect the cooling? I will be using a little bit of the fan as it goes almost an inch up the cooler.
 
I can't have it higher up the cooler. I have a P183 V3 from Antec which is a nice sized case but for how tall the vengeance memory is it is too high to mount the fan. I can fit in a normal fan but the mount they use makes it stick out from the cooler too much and over into the memory. If I am going to use the mount I will need a skinnier pwm fan but there are none that are pwm. The scythe is the only skinny fan I know of and it is not pwm.
 
The only other option I know is to rotate the cooler 90 degrees and use 1 fan.

I have a 212 EVO on a Gene-Z board with a 2600K @ 5.0Ghz and at load it keeps it 69-71C, just under Tcase believe it or not. I love the 212 coolers, unbeatable for the price, or anything close to the price, and I prefer it because it is smaller than the top HSF.

As long as your case has good flow & ambient temps, that cooler only needs one fan.
 
Not to hijack this thread, but I have a Hyper 212 on an AMD 880g board. From the way the backplate mounting holes are situated in the motherboard, it seems my only option is to mount the 212 so that it either blows down or up. Is there a way to mount the 212 on an AM3 board so that the fan can blow towards the back of the case (in the direction of my case's outlet fan)?
 
I can't rotate it because of its size and objects in the way. The only option is to take the heat spreader of the one stick of memory, get a skinnier fan, get the wire clip from coolermaster instead of the plastic one that came with this one, get different memory, or get a new cpu cooler.
 
I have a ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z mobo with 16GB (4x4GB) of Vengeance ram (not the low clearance). I'm able to fit the Hyper 212+ with a push-pull config no problem. There is probably like 1-2mm space between the fan and the RAM. I have to remove the first two dimms closest to the fan to put it on though.
 
If you're stuck with the RAM, you can just google "remove ram heatsink" and find lots of info on how to take them off. I'm pretty sure that unless you're running really high performance memory modules they'll be fine without the heatsinks.

Other option would be to return the memory and get some low profile modules.
 
ingeborgdot said:
I am putting together a new build with a hyper 212 plus and some corsair vengeance memory that goes right beside it. The problem is that the hyper 212 extends slightly into the 1st slot of memory. The vengeance memory is way too high with the heatsink on it. What can I do? Can I put the fan on the cooler to pull instead of push or will I lose some cooling? Do I need to get different memory? Can I take off the heatsink on the first stick? Thanks.
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I have a hyper 212+ and it works with my 4gbx4 of Corsair Vengeance with the super high heatsinks. Yes, the 212 goes over the 1st ram slot a bit but I still have a couple of mm clearance over the 1st stick of ram.

edit - this is in an Antec P182 case.
 
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The only other option I know is to rotate the cooler 90 degrees and use 1 fan.

I have a 212 EVO on a Gene-Z board with a 2600K @ 5.0Ghz and at load it keeps it 69-71C, just under Tcase believe it or not. I love the 212 coolers, unbeatable for the price, or anything close to the price, and I prefer it because it is smaller than the top HSF.

As long as your case has good flow & ambient temps, that cooler only needs one fan.
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rotating the cooler and putting the fan at the bottom isn't good for sleeve bearing fans. the top of the bearing won't get any lubricant so it will wear out or seize faster.

OP are you sure it won't fit in a P183? i've got a 212 with a 120 fan in my P180.
 
I got newegg to take it back. I ordered an H40 from corsair. I don't have to worry about any clearance and have one less fan to worry about.
 
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I got newegg to take it back. I ordered an H40 from corsair. I don't have to worry about any clearance and have one less fan to worry about.
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Well -- good luck with that H40, then. I was going to add that there's absolutely nothing wrong with using a single "puller" fan -- ideally, your 120x38mm exhaust fan, like a Panaflo/NMB-MAT 0.40A fan.

Somebody might reply to this, "Spare us, Old-Timer! Nobody wastes time with that Ducting S*** anymore!" But I'll say it anyway.

You can improve your cooler's potential to the max by ducting it with little constructions you can make with some foam art-board, an Xacto knife and glue from the hobby-shop formulated specifically for foam . . . art-board . . .

If the case is slightly pressurized, the cooling from a well-ducted heatpipe-tower and the exhaust-fan should reach the cooler's optimum.

The Corsair RAM kits -- like my DDR2 "DHX" kit in another machine -- have tall heatsinks. My G.SKILL Ripjaws have nice sinks, but they fit anyway with about 1 or 2 mm of clearance from the bottom of a fan of the recommended size, positioned on the cooler as intended.

But there are several options that can be exhausted. You just chose to pick the "cooler-replacement" option.

I just bought two Hyper 212+ coolers for about $25 each, and have high expectations for them, on some LGA-775 mATX systems with mild over-clocks and the Intel stock cooler.
 
I now have an H40 liquid cooler from Corsair installed in my computer. I want to know what someone would do in the case I am going to explain.
The H40 recommends it as an air intake so I have put this as an air intake in the back. My top fan on my P183 V3 is taking air out. My front two though are intake again. That is 3 in and 1 out. Should I switch my top fan in the front of my case and put it as an out fan? This would give me 2+2. Any suggestions would be great if you know what you are talking about.🙂
 
It depends on your goal. Are you trying to overclock as much as possible?

I have several Corsair coolers and have run tests on them. Setting up the H40/H60 in exhaust mode will still get you some decent cooling, but nowhere near what you'll get in intake mode. The max load temps at 4.8Ghz vary with the H60 up to 12 degrees C. If you aren't clocking over 4.5, or aren't running extended full-workload, then you can get by with either configuration.

Personally, with that cooler, I like an intake config.
 
I am only planning on doing 3.8 oc.
On that cooler I will do the intake and keep it that way. The fan above will take out any of the heat it puts in, so I have no problem with that. My question is more about the front two that I have as intakes. Should I keep them both as intakes?
 
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Honestly the best answer is to experiment and see what works best. Personally I'd sacrifice the CPU temps a bit in exchange for lower motherboard and/or GPU temps, as your 2500k isn't going to run all that hot.

If you're interested in something a bit more fun, you could try out a passive radiator: Remove the fan on the H40 entirely, and install the remaining case fans as intakes.

The positive pressure will force air out through the H40's radiator even without an exhaust fan You can optimize your configuration for temps or noise by increasing or decreasing the intake fans' RPM to taste. (Plugging any remaining small holes in the case will maximize airflow through the radiator...you don't want it leaking out elsewhere.)
 
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