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Are there any advantages by getting an AMD chipset MB w/ a ATI graphics card, vis versa Nforce/8200 w/ Nvidia? or will performance be the same if I were to get a Nvidia graphics card with it? Im sure this topic was once dicussed before, but any input on this would be awesome.

Yea i want to fit all that in a SFF Case... either MicroFly or Q-pack. I would like to mod the case if that means I can get a taller heatsink hehe, but yea the Tt blue orb II is what i was looking at or smaller. The problem is the whole heatsink dimension is 140mm long and will really cover both ram slots.

I want to replace a stock AMD 64x2 Dual-core heatsink with either a Tt blue, red, golden orb or something else that is low profile and good cooling. My main concern is that the cpu slot and Ram slots are so close together that with a 120mmx120mm dimension heatsink/fan might cover up the first memory slot on the MB (mAtx) and there are only 2 ram slots. The ram is pretty standard with no fancy heatspreaders. Does anyone know if the Tt heatsinks will block the complete usage of the memory slot? or just cover over it? Here are links from newegg.com. Any info would be awesome. Mobo: Gigabyte GM-M78SM-S2H Ram: Gskill 4Gb (2x2Gb)