I think you can remove the heatsink on top of some RAM-sticks. Also, throwing in a humble recommendation for the Cryorig H7 (I believe it retails for $40). It's a smashing cooler for the price, and importantly for you, it claims to have "infinite RAM-compatibility" :)

Other than changing colour, I think it can also rotate them around, but not sure.
I know I saw one cooler do that, but could've been some other cooler.
As for prices for the Vega, I've also seen quotes leaked for around £500+.
Guess we'll find out soon enough, although not soon enough hehe.

Rumoured names & prices

Radeon RX Vega 64 Air: $499
Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Limited Edition: $549
Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid: $599
Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Limited Edition: $649/$699
Radeon RX Vega 56: $399

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/the-amd-vega-thread.18781388/

AMD Bristol Ridge APUs news:

http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/108409-amd-bristol-ridge-apus-released-retail/

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-also-released-bristol-ridge-apus.html

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11669/amd-releases-bristol-ridge-to-retail-am4-gets-apus

"The new new entry-level APUs get a 65 W TDP and will be based on 2-module, 4-threads for the A12-9800, running at 3.8 GHz base and 4.2 GHz Turbo.

The APUs have improved throughput VP9, HEVC and H.265 support at low power playback. This platform will support DDR3 and DDR4 up-to 2400 MHz. The new AMD4 socket is intended for all CPU's from top to bottom, including the future ZEN based processors. The combo of today's announced 7th Gen processors will offer features like DDR4, PCI-Express Gen 3, USB 3.1 (gen2), NVMe and will support SATA Express.

A GCN 1.3 architecture is used for the IGP, a Radeon R7 GPU with 512 Stream Processors 800 MHz Base and 1108 MHz Turbo. There are three 35 W parts with E suffix."

512 cores integrated eh? Quite a bit more than I have in my current standalone card.... how fast things progress. I still remember the wonder when I got my 2nd hand FX 5600 or was it a FX 5700 with FOUR pipelines, yes 4...

https://videocardz.com/71430/amd-announces-radeon-rx-vega-64-series

AMD Radeon RX Vega series are here. There are currently six Vega cards, two Frontiers, three RX Vega 64s and a cut-down version called RX Vega 56.

Radeon RX 56: Starting with the 56. This model has 3584 Stream Processors, 10.5 TFLOPs computing power, 410 GB/s memory bandwidth (so around 800 MHz clock) and a price tag of 399 USD.

Radeon RX 64: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 comes in three variants. The cheapest one is 499 USD, this card has 4096 Stream Processors, 8GB HBM2 memory and 484 GB/s bandwidth. The TDP is 295W and it will offer up to 12.66 TFLOPs of power.

The fastest Vega is called RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooled Edition. This model has higher TDP (345W), but also higher clocks up to 1677 MHz. This card will cost you 699 USD.

The Vega 64 is compared to GTX 1080 and 980 Ti in 4K and 1440p Ultrawide gaming. Based on the numbers provided on the slides RX Vega 64 will offer higher framerate:


Also handy:

Radeon Packs

AMD is also introducing Radeon Packs: 2 free games, up to 100 USD off from Ryzen 7/motherboard combo and up to 200 USD off from FreeSync monitor.

There's also a nano sized card too.

Another link to the release.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11680/radeon-rx-vega-unveiled-amd-announecs-499-rx-vega-64-399-rx-vega-56-launching-in-august

So, guessing those in UK will still be screwed with the £1=$1, but if can sneak an import, that's a great price!
I think it goes above the 1070, but will have to see once it's released.

Radeon RX 56: Starting with the 56. This model has 3584 Stream Processors, 10.5 TFLOPs computing power, 410 GB/s memory bandwidth (so around 800 MHz clock) and a price tag of 399 USD.

"This Special Offer is void in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the People’s Republic of China, Burma, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Sudan and Iran, or any country in which the distribution of games is prohibited by law or export restrictions or otherwise, or in which the games are not available or in which the Special Offer is prohibited by law."

Odd that, had no idea US would be hit by that. But....it seems the offers for the Vega deals are US only (still to be confirmed) & the discount for the Freesync monitor is also US only.

Same goes for the Mobo/Ryzen7. Seeing no prices nor indicators that it'll be anything other that US. :/

I'm a bit worried.. finger crossed for the reviews :|
Also, I'd need a GPU+good freesync monitor bundle (no Steam games and I already have a Mobo).

Let us play wait and see. It is a lousy game but better than wild speculations.

Was right that UK would get screwed on threadripper prices.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/amd-threadripper-now-available.18788149/

https://www.tech.com.pk/amd-ryzen-threadripper-price-specifications-features/

A lower 1900x has just been announced too.

Bad TDP on those video cards.

I wonder if the color can be computer controlled to indicate, say, temperature or load.

Think it depends on your motherboard software and what it can handle; so whatever ASUS Aura, Gigabyte RGB Fusion and MSI/ ASRock etc equivalents can be set up to do. I've got a GB board and it can certainly be set to use temperature. Which would be pointless for me, I have the RGB Spire on my 1700 but a closed case so I just left it on default red.

Some early Threadripper results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=decz1N9YpOw

Tempted to get one of the AMD Ryzen CPU's to upgrade from intel i5 CPU... it looks promising.