I asked a friend of mine to change the orientation of my cpu cooler from horizontal to vertical. Currently I'm using deepcool ice blade pro and my casing is CM690II plus. Unfortunately he said it can't be done (he said something about the cooler's mounting).

the reason I want to change the orientation to vertical is because I want to make use of the 5.25 inch bay and put a fan there thus it will aligned with the cpu cooler's fan.

my question is if I stick with the current horizontal set up and add a fan inside the 5.25 inch bay, does it interrupt the air flow?

Does anybody have any problem fitting heatsink on a skylake cpu such as bending etc? Any precautions that I have to follow before/after installing one on that cpu?