Will the Scythe Ninja Plus Rev B cooler fit in to the Wavemaster without modification?

When I had my Zalman CNPS9500Cu-LED, I had some problems fitting that in to the case as the top of the heatsink just barely got past the case structure when sliding the motherboard tray back in.

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As usual, this may or may not have anything to do with the new computer that I may or may not be building any time in the near or distant future.

I answered my own question...

Zalman CNPS9500 coolers are 125mm tall, and this has about 1 or 2mm clearance
Scythe Ninja Plus Rev B is 150mm tall, so this will have negative clearance

Unfortunately, the Scythe Ninja will not fit in the Wavemaster, unless I never want to remove the motherboard tray.

What CPU is this for? For an Intel CPU you really can't go wrong with the Arctic Cooling Pro7 or whatever it's called.

Yeah that's a good cooler but it doesn't work without a fan

Oh, you want to go fanless. I personally think that's a bad idea, it's not like the fan is that noisy. What are your reasons for wanting fanless?

For silence. A Ninja can cater for even overclocked quad cores. The difference between using and not using a fan is about 2 or 3 degrees Celsius. Check out SPCR for more details

Yeah, but you still have the other case fans. I find internal fans don't make much difference.

SPCR?

Component fans make more noise from my experience, a lot more!
SPCR is Silent PC Review

Fanless is good as long as you choose the right components and cooling products.

If you control their speed they're generally fine, I find they get very rowdy after a certain point. I hear the Pro7 has a good fan too.

You could mod the side of the case and have the heatsink sticking out!

Haha! Unfortunately, this case needs to be baby and toddler proof so no case modding. Wavemaster is too nice to cut holes in to anyway!

Heh, OK. I don't think you'll get a decent fanless cooler in a case as "small" as the Wavemaster, TBH. I did see a cooler that was sort of top down, but I don't think it was that good.

The Scythe Mini Ninja might be pretty good.
I'm thinking of just going for the Zalman CNPS9500Cu again, and keeping the fan at a low voltage. The fan was always audible at all RPM's, so I might get the Zalman fan-silencer also - it just drops the voltage a little bit more.

You're a big fan of those SNPS9500s, lol. I'd still go Pro7, personally. Their performance is usually reported as one of the best (if not the best) of all coolers, and I've never heard noise complaints. Plus they're cheap.

I've heard that there are some problems with the fan being recognised on some motherboards.

I think it has PWN fan (yes, tehy are called PWN), which is slightly different to older fans, so might not be recognised on older mobos, but should be fine on a new one.

Still, I'm a big fan of the CNPS9500. Remember the temperatures I got after installing it? Plus, it looks hundreds of times better than a Freezer 7 Pro.

True, but you don't like case windows, therefore looks are unimportant as you will hardly ever see it!

I disagree. It's nice to open up to something like that just like I did in my last case and the one before that.

And yes, windowed cases are just disgusting.

So you like to open your case up, but hate windows? You can be odd. I can see some points about windows, though.

Yes I like opening my case up and looking at it that way, but I find that windows in cases look tacky and too plastic. If they were made of glass then I might change my mind.

Also, any surprise I don't like Windows?

Heh, but glass would be heavy, thick and breakable. Swings and roundabouts...

Anyway, have you decided what you're going to do yet?