Hi, im thinking about buying this cooler and putting it on my fatality z77 professional-m. but im very concerned about if it will fit with my 4 corsair vengeance RAM sticks. i wanna run it with 2 fans (1on each side ofc) blowing out of the back of the case. i know, you would have to test it to answer this questuion but pls give me your estimate about this. that would be great.

you make an excellent point about the graphics cards hammeister! I do use watercooling on my cards, so that wasn’t taken into much consideration for my personal usage, but it should be for illustrating to other users their desired setups.

There would be absolutely no clearance issue at all if it is placed either way with this board. One could even have the air exhaust to the top, as the fan can go either direction, on either side of the heatsink.
The only constraint would be the first RAM slot if using ram with extra long fins, but most ram would be fine. this would also only manifest itself in the configuration shown.

Thanks for your input hammy, i will take that into consideration on my next heatsink review. Any feedback is appreciated and will only help to make future reviews even better 🙂

A few questions. Would it be possible to turn the heat sink 90 degrees so that the warm air would exit through the rear case fan, or is there a clearance issue on that eVGA board? I can’t be sure if there is a clearance problem, or not, from the angle of the photo.

Second, if turning it 90 degrees would create a clearance problem, wouldn’t a person be better off to flip the fan around so that the warm air pulled from the heat sink would exhaust through the top of the case?

As it is now, the warm air from the heat sink would be blown directly into the graphics cards. The last thing high performance graphics cards need these days is warm air.