Best cooler fit for a GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L

[DX]

I'm going to be trying to max out on air a E6320. What fan/heatsink fits best? I might end up with Patriot Viper memory that have tall heatsinks. Has anyone with a GA-P35-DS3L got any suggestions so that I get the best performance in overclocking while not having to make major modifications to the heatsink.

[ibleet]

If you have tall heatsinks, then your selection will be severely limited if you intend to fill all 4 memory slots. I put an Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 pro on a ds3l board with tall heatsinks (ocz reaper) and I had to move the ram to the 2nd and 4th banks, instead of the 1st and 3rd. Even then it was a bit tight. Not sure which coolers would fit better as I haven't tried others.

[DMB2000uk]

Square coolers will fit, you'll just have to rotate them to be ' | ' direction instead of the ' -- ' direction where they would interfere with your RAM.

The best air cooling to be found is the ThermalRight U120x, but that's a pretty penny.

I'm sure others will have better budget offerings to suggest.

Dan

[DX]

I'll have tall ram and intend to use all four slots for 8gb. I have a concern about the chipset heatsink that is near the CPU and that it will interfere with most coolers. I don't have to worry though about hight of the cooler..... I wonder if I have to go to a liquid solution.

[ibleet]

I've built 3 systems around the DS3L and I've never had an issue with the NB heatsink being in the way. The only issue I've had is with tall ram heatsinks.

[DX]

This is the cooler I'm looking at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6835233003

[ibleet]

Looks to me like that will clear the NB sink no sweat, although you may have a lack of clearance with the side of your case if you don't have a full tower.

[DX]

I have a fatboy =) its a wide tower so it should fit.