Dominator fan on Badaxe 2

[bmg]

There's a Dominator fan review on Newegg saying that it can't be used on the Badaxe 2 motherboard with long video cards. The amount of space between the back of the video card and the ram sockets really is pretty small, but seems like it should be enough. Has anyone at Corsair tried this?

[Charles Wirth]

Its a close fit, you cannot open the ram tabs all the way with video card installed they will bump the card. If you install the dominator fan you will need to make sure there is nothing touching the video card and it will fit fine.

[Apoptosis]

It's a very close fit... When I reviewed (http://www.legitreviews.com/article/388/2/) the kit I linked a picture, but didn't show it in the article as not everyone has that board:

http://forums.legitreviews.com/images/random/corsair2.jpg

It does touch on full length cards when mounted in a chassis... If you are worried about it touching you can place a thin piece of plastic between the two to keep them from having contact. It shouldn't be a deal breaker, but it's a good thing to point out Intel D975XBX and D975XBX2 motherboards. Just the top "bend" in the bracket lands on a couple resistors. On a thicker video card (one with a backplate) like the eVGA 8800GTS I don't think it will fit at all -- so it also depends on your video card.

Hope this helps and Merry Christmas

[R @ P T O R]

nice memory ;) ....but have a bit expansive dissipation system....i see the fan panel tuch the vga board ...i think it's not good disposition

[Yellowbeard]

Apoptosis, thanks for posting those pics.

[Barnsley-Bill]

I did the same with mine after seeing yours and now im trying to make a better way of cliping the ram fan on that side just in case .