I have the G-skill F4-4266C17D-32GVKB 2x16GiB kit ripjaws V. It's 42mm in height. I'd like to reduce this height so I could either:
a. push the front shrouded 120x38mm fan down further on my Noctua NH-D15s so more airflow is going over the finstack closer to the heat source
b. attach a more powerful 127x50mm fan with shrouds to the front of the finstack
I had some old G-skill ripjaws DDR3 and had a similar heatspreader problem that I solved by using a dremel and slowly and carefully cutting off the tops of the heatspreader so that the front fan could fit on my Phanteks ph-tc14pe would fit, but the heatspreader on these ripjaws V are different. How difficult is it to remove the heatspreader and is it a good idea to even do so? I thought some heatspreaders in the past were clipped on, but that doesn't look like the case with these Ripjaws V. I don't really want to cut the heatspreader either because then I'll lose any and all warranty I'm sure.
a. push the front shrouded 120x38mm fan down further on my Noctua NH-D15s so more airflow is going over the finstack closer to the heat source
b. attach a more powerful 127x50mm fan with shrouds to the front of the finstack
I had some old G-skill ripjaws DDR3 and had a similar heatspreader problem that I solved by using a dremel and slowly and carefully cutting off the tops of the heatspreader so that the front fan could fit on my Phanteks ph-tc14pe would fit, but the heatspreader on these ripjaws V are different. How difficult is it to remove the heatspreader and is it a good idea to even do so? I thought some heatspreaders in the past were clipped on, but that doesn't look like the case with these Ripjaws V. I don't really want to cut the heatspreader either because then I'll lose any and all warranty I'm sure.