Dominator Ram Cooling

[Paulie]

THREAD IN PROGRESS HEATSINK, AIR COOLING AND MIPS TESTING COMPLETE PICS UPLOADING

Today I'd like to share with you some testing I've been doing over the weekend of the various different options that are available to cool Corsair Dominator ram kits. I'll be testing the heatsinks that come installed with every set of dominator ram. For air cooling I'll be testing the Corsair CMXAF2 Airflow Fan for the air cooling. for water cooling I'll be testing two different blocks, firstly will be the Mips Ram Cooler 7 Nickel block and last but not least the new EK-RAM Dominator - Nickel block.​

Test Setup.

Ram - 4 x 2gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600mhz 8-8-8-24 CMP4GX3M2B1600C8​

Motherboard - Gigabyte 890FXA UD5​

CPU - AMD Phemon II 965 3.4ghz (200 x 17) c3 revision​

GFX - ATi radeon 4850​

PSU - Be Quiet dark power pro 850watt​

HDD - 2 x Western digital 500gb Caviar eco green​

Case - Microcool Benchtable Banchetto 101​

Data Capture:

Aquaero 4.0

Lamptron FC5

Zalman ZM-PCM1 (cpu & gpu)​

Water cooling loop 1 (ram cooling loop)

Laing d5 pump vario(set to max)

Thermochill pa120.3 radaitor (15mm spacing)

3 x scythe kaze ultras (2000rpm - not as noisy as deltas but still half way there to sending you deaf)

EK res 150

2 x Koolance Extreme flow QDC M+F

Tygon R3603 3/4" OD tubing.

compression fittings​

Water cooling loop 2 (cpu loop)

HK 3.0 nickel

EK DCP 4.0

EK Reservoir DCP 4.0 combo

HW labs Black Ice GT Stealth 280 (rev. 2)

2 x Fractal 140mm fans (600rpm)

Masterkleer 3/8" ID 1/2" OD tubing

compresion fittings​

To test the ram I will be using OCCT linpack test on the 90% ram usage. I will run each test for 1 hour. Aquaero is set to log data every 5 seconds. I did a twenty min test with just one ram stick and all four probes stuck to each side upper and lower parts of the heatsink and found that the upper left side was the hottest, not by much mind. Thermal probes will be attached to the left side (side facing the cpu socket) of each ram stick using electrical tape. Each probe will be stuck in the centre of the ram stick making contact with the upper part of the heatsink and not touching the part with the corsair sticker on it.​

I will run the test with just the heatsink and then the corsair fan once each. I will run the test for each water block three times each.​

 

[Paulie]

Heatsink temps​

Corsair fan temps​

Mips Ram Cooler 7 temps (mount 1)​

Mips Ram Cooler 7 temps (mount 2)​

Mips Ram Cooler 7 temps (mount 3)​

EK Dominator temps (mount 1)​

EK Dominator temps (mount 2)​

EK Dominator temps (mount 3)​

Comparison charts

Below charts are based on the delta temp from ambient. All three mounts were included to work out the average for each water block

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Ram Stick 1 (closet to CPu socket)​

Ram Stick 2​

Ram Stick 3​

Ram stick 4​

The below charts show the comparison of delta temps from the recorded water temp during each test​

Ram Stick 1 (closet to CPu socket)​

Ram Stick 2​

Ram Stick 3​

Ram stick 4​

 

[ciksas]

And your progress?

 

[Paulie]

And your progress?

Just one more mount for the EK block to do, I've started collating the data into graphs now and begining to upload to photobucket.

I'm going to graph rec temps, delta temp from ambient room and delta temps from water. Then I'll put a few comparison charts up of all the results, min max average delta etc.

If theres anything anyone wants to see please ask as aquaero records everything.

 

[marsey99]

max mhz with each cooling set up would be nice

shame if you drop the cash to add them to your loop for no real gains imo :|

 

[dugdiamond]

^spammer