I own a Thermalrigh HR-03 GT and while it's a good cooler, there's one huge design flaw in it: it doesn't handle high speed, high thermal output RAM very well. This is mainly because of the two chips that are below the heatpipes:
The sinks itself also have little dissipation area, whereas the others will be just fine. This is worse if you place the cooler on the back, instead of the front of the PCB, since no fan will be blowing towards the RAM chips:
This is not my favorite setup but I can't mount it other way. My HD 4830 hates it and I have to switch to watercooling soon or something will get fried.
While Thermaltake's RAM sinks aren't the best, they're quite enough and you will have two fans blowing over the card.
There's enough space to handle probably even larger RAM heatsinks but it seems you will lose more than one adjacent slot with this cooler. Making up for it is a decent design that promises good cooling performance.
ISGC V320 @ Expreview
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