ASUS M5A97 Air cooled heat sink

G9xftw · Dec 7, 2015

I am looking for a good air cooled heatsink for the mentioned MB. It is the original MB, not any revised edition or the M series.

My big concern is that I have got all the RAM slots occupied, all four of them. Currently I am running a CoolerMaster TX3EVO whose cooling efficiency is not that great, especially during summers. Can you recommend the best heatsink which will help bring down the temperature as much as possible and at the same time fit well without hitting, pushing against the RAM?

Here is the link to the official page for the motherboard.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97/

CountMike · Dec 8, 2015

Most aftermarket CPU coolers have mounting far all the MBs. You didn't mention which processor and if any overclocking, that's very important too.
It also may come to personal preference and size of the case. I'm for instance very satisfied with: http://www.scythe-eu.com/en/products/cpu-cooler/mugen-4.html But it's huge. Fan can be raised up over the RAMs so it fits fine.

G9xftw · Dec 8, 2015

CountMike :

I am not overclocking. My atmospheric temperature is pretty hot during days so I want the best possible AIR cooling for the FX8320. I realize closed loop liquid cooling would be better in terms of fit, but it naturally costs more too and I would need at least H70 or something....

Also I would like to attach the fan on the CPU heatsink such that it does not blow air out of the heatsink and onto the DIMMS. That is my current setup but my RAM sticks heat up alot. I cant mount it the opposite way for the airflow to be going out the back of the case as the DIMMS get in the way. I could try attaching the opposite way but the CPU fan pushes hard against the RAM.

CountMike · Dec 8, 2015

Is that some extra high RAM, standard height RAM is not a problem if fan can be mounted higher. Fans that are held by wire clips can be mounted pretty high. In my case only two slots next to processor are covered by fan but HyperX memory clears fan just fine.

madmatt30 · Dec 8, 2015

Raijintek Pallas mate - misses ram completely , cools vrm's as well as CPU - performs slightly better than a 212 evo so will handle a stock 8320 easily.

CountMike · Dec 8, 2015

RAM doesn't even need any special cooling any more unless it's way overclocked with insane voltages. Other places like chipset and VRM need more attention.

madmatt30 · Dec 8, 2015

Regarding the way you have the tx3 evo now with the fan at the rear - you should have removed the fan from the mount & spun it around so its pulling air out of the heatsink towards the rear of the case.
You lose some efficiency but its going to be a lot better than the way you currently have it.

G9xftw · Dec 9, 2015

CountMike :

I am using 4 sticks of Corsair Vengeance, 4gb sticks.

G9xftw · Dec 9, 2015

madmatt30 :

Seems like a good solution. If I get for like $30-40 I will pick it up...but that brand is not common in my country. In fact you just introduced it to me!

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