Cooler Master V8 and Ram Fans touching.... is this bad?

[shaxs]

Hi All,

I just got done building (minus ram... grr stupid newegg 3 days my butt!) and I have a Cooler Master V8 and the Corsair Dominator Ram fans. Well, this V8 is so large that it sort of covers the ram area. I can squeeze the Corsair fans on (not sturdy fit mind you), but the Corsair and the V8 touch metal to metal. Will this cause issues? Should I ditch the memory fans? Please see picture

[InspectahACE]

I would ditch the ram fans...they aren't really needed..They help don't get me wrong..but unless you're really overclocking the hell out of the ram, it's not really needed

[shaxs]

I would ditch the ram fans...they aren't really needed..They help don't get me wrong..but unless you're really overclocking the hell out of the ram, it's not really needed

I do plan on over clocking the system. I just built this:

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/Publi ... r=12124072

Quick summary is a GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 mobo with an AMD 965 BE cooled by a Cooler Master V8 and 8 gigs of the new OCZ DDR3 1600 AMD Black edition. I am hoping to overclock the proc to around 4ghz. Overclocking the ram would be nice. I do have an Antec Spot Cool which I can put on the ram (the neck on that thing sucks!).

[InspectahACE]

if anything I'd stick with that Antec Spot Cool.. I wouldn't try using the Corsair ones(or anything) if they're touching the cpu cooler that much..I can't say i don't have fans on mine since I have a V10 lol. But I don't OC the ram.

[Apoptosis]

No worries at all if they touch... My memory cooler touches my CPU cooler on tall the Core i7 and Core i5 test systems and nothing has ever failed.

Game on!

[shaxs]

Cool, well I just bought some ram from Frys to tide me over until my ram from Newegg gets in.

Does anyone have a good over clocking guide?

[Apoptosis]

on what part of the system?

[shaxs]

All parts? I was messing around a bit earlier and was able to get to 4.1 ghz stable (I think). I am thinking about using the AMD Over Drive utility once I have Win 7 installed.

I saw in my bios I can overclock the cpu, pcie, bus, ect. I have never really oc'ed before, but I bought components to allow me to try it out. What would be a respectable overclock for the AMD 965 BE on air?

[shaxs]

I managed to Fubar my brand new windows 7 RC install in my overclock attempts. Once I get my 8 b OCZ black edition ram in I will try to overclock again. I think this cheap Corsair memory I bought at frys inst very conducive to overclocking.