let's try and fit this totally overkill cooler into this tiny case because I wanna see if it fits
but first, some stress testing with the stock cooler
turns out it's perfectly adequate. let's replace it
especially considering that you lose some of the depth to the hard drive mounting "solution"
also my friend who gave me this cooler has decided to bring me the CPU and RAM I'm actually gonna try and run with this so I don't have to mount it twice
I won't be able to do a direct comparison but y'know
uh, I'm not sure if I'll be able to fit the cooler in here, the graphics card is pretty close to the CPU
I might end up cooling the GPU's backplate with this
update: the cooler doesn't mount on the board lol
we put in the faster CPU and RAM regardless
update: my friend is close to throwing my computer out of the window because my board is cursed and doesn't go into the UEFI setup unless you perform a ritual of unplugging, the replugging the drives beforehand
okay so now I have no overclock because with it the CPU doesn't get power limited and overheats under load, but I now have 16GB RAM, twice the amount I had before at significantly higher speed
this tiny case is now officially filled to the brim with parts
yes, that fan is right against the RAM
@noiob free ram cooler!
@troubleMoney more like extra GPU cooling
@noiob kaum macht mans richtig, &c &c
@halcy I was really sitting there like "oh this is supposed to be this easy?"
@noiob god I read recently that some of the high end AMD CPUs just straight up can't be bought with a stock cooler anymore, like they're just not sold like that, the official reasoning being that no one who buys them would run them on a stock cooler anyways which, honestly, fair
@halcy yeah that's been the case for AMD for a while
@halcy though their Ryzen stock coolers are very nice, some even have RGB 😄
yes, this is a small case