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The RAM will depend on the motherboard and the cooler. With the NZXT X41 for example, it's a thicker rad so that leaves less room for tall RAM, and then I have a X99 board with RAM slots on both sides of the CPU so tall RAM isn't very suitable. Ripjaws aren't too tall compared to some others so with a 115x socket board I think it'll be fine with a single fan at least. Trying to do push-pull with a thick rad wouldn't work.


The reference coolers are loud at full load. I've tested a non-reference GTX780 though and it held up well. You can check out all the thermal testing data I've done at the link at the bottom of this page: http://www.kimeraindustries.com/blog/2015/2/13/thermal-testing-announcement


If you're not hypersensitive to noise and don't mind a bit of pump buzz then AIO for each the CPU and GPU will probably give best temps at fairly low noise.