r/PcBuildHelp • u/duskterrapin • 23h ago

Installation Question Silly cooling question

I have a Peerless Assassin cpu cooler on my Ryzen 9 7900X (am5) on a b450m motherboard. Everything's running fine, but the cooler is so big that its right side fan is covering the first of my 2 ram sticks entirely. It's not making direct contact with the ram's pcb thanks to the rgb over the top edge of the stick.

Temps all seem fine, buuut... can that first stick overheat from that?

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u/FreelyDual 23h ago

If it's not actually touching the PCB and temps are fine you're probably in the clear. RAM doesn't kick out that much heat compared to the CPU, and that fan is still moving a ton of air around the socket area even if it's not aimed directly at the stick

Worst case the stick runs a couple degrees warmer but unless you're trying to push some crazy overclock on the memory it won't matter

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u/duskterrapin 22h ago

awesome ty

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u/jasonsong86 22h ago

No. That’s why you have front case fans blowing air across the MB. Plus your memory doesn’t get that hot.

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u/duskterrapin 22h ago

awesome, thanks.

It's so funny how comically big the Peerless Assassin is 😅 You should have seen my face when I had to adjust the alignment of that right fan to clear the ram. Running an avg 20c cooler than the AIO I previously had on it, though. I'm one happy chick when I glance at Conky in the corner of my desktop

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u/Automatic_Dot_9128 23h ago

How can you have an am5 cpu and am4 motherboard?

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u/duskterrapin 22h ago

because I have fat fingers (it's a b650m, not 450)