pieterisme
New member
Hi All,
New to the site, could use a little advice about a new rig.
I just purchased the following and am having issues.
Gigabyte G1 Assassin
Thermaltake FRIO OCK CPU Cooler
3x4GB Corsair Vengeance
Gigabyte GTX590 3GB GDDR5 - Model: GV-N590D5-3GD-B
Intel Core i7 970 3.20Ghz 12meg Cache LGA1366
Aerocool XPredator Black/Orange
Corsair HX1000W Modular Power Supply
OCZ Agility3 120GB SSD
Basically the cooler covers the first ram slot.. (all good triple slot configuration uses green slots and 12 GB is plenty for me)
..BUT even using the green slots the cooler touches the ram..
Is this going to be and issue or should i just put the stock Intel I7 cooler back in?
Thanks in Advance
Batch 1
Batch 2 - CPU Cooler swapped mounting brackets to turn 90'

Batch 3 - Some issues,
1st - Mounting a 590 gfx card with this case was easy room wise however the orange expansion holder clips weren't designed to hold a double height gfx card, so I took off the top half use a screw on the bottom hole and attached the clips back to the case, the top clip does up but the second is held by the screw
2nd - The hole in the case for running the 2x 12volt motherboard connectors behind isn't big enough, and the cables wouldn't reach if they did
... so I ran the cable in front without hitting a fan or making it messy
3rd - Possibly the neatest rig in the world, I used many many zip ties
4th - Installing windows, the cpu fan it very loud...

New to the site, could use a little advice about a new rig.
I just purchased the following and am having issues.
Gigabyte G1 Assassin
Thermaltake FRIO OCK CPU Cooler
3x4GB Corsair Vengeance
Gigabyte GTX590 3GB GDDR5 - Model: GV-N590D5-3GD-B
Intel Core i7 970 3.20Ghz 12meg Cache LGA1366
Aerocool XPredator Black/Orange
Corsair HX1000W Modular Power Supply
OCZ Agility3 120GB SSD
Basically the cooler covers the first ram slot.. (all good triple slot configuration uses green slots and 12 GB is plenty for me)
..BUT even using the green slots the cooler touches the ram..
Is this going to be and issue or should i just put the stock Intel I7 cooler back in?
Thanks in Advance
Batch 1




Batch 2 - CPU Cooler swapped mounting brackets to turn 90'







Batch 3 - Some issues,
1st - Mounting a 590 gfx card with this case was easy room wise however the orange expansion holder clips weren't designed to hold a double height gfx card, so I took off the top half use a screw on the bottom hole and attached the clips back to the case, the top clip does up but the second is held by the screw
2nd - The hole in the case for running the 2x 12volt motherboard connectors behind isn't big enough, and the cables wouldn't reach if they did

3rd - Possibly the neatest rig in the world, I used many many zip ties
4th - Installing windows, the cpu fan it very loud...












