Over heating

[Dudered7]

I am getting 16gb of Dominator Gt ram and I am wondering if it needs to have some kind of fan blowing on it because there wont be andy fans in the case because I will have an exturnal unit for cooling the rest of the parts. So do I have to have some airflow in the case?

 

[jamesriley94]

RAM doesnt get hot. It doesnt even need heatspreaders unless you're running memtest 24/7, so no.

 

[SavageCupcake]

aslong as you arent overclocking the memory massively it should be ok. will all the slots be populated? because if there is a slot between each stick that would be better. i would advise atleast one fan blowing fresh air into the case to keep the motherboard chipset etc cool

 

[Dudered7]

Everthing including the mobo will be water cooled but the ram won't.

I might do the ram but it would be 100 bucks for the blocks because my mobo's ram slots are 4 on each side of the cpu so there will be at least 1 slot in between the ram chips.

 

[jamesriley94]

Everthing including the mobo will be water cooled but the ram won't.

I might do the ram but it would be 100 bucks for the blocks because my mobo's ram slots are 4 on each side of the cpu so there will be at least 1 slot in between the ram chips.

leave it. it will be fine.

 

[Dudered7]

Even if it is overclocked?

 

[SavageCupcake]

should be fine mate

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

yeah they do heat up but not to that point where its dangerous, so no worries, besides dominators have good heatsinks to deal with that

 

[PetrolHead247]

Watercooling RAM is a complete waste of time and money tbh, so don't bother with it

 

[Dudered7]

Ok well thanks ill prob not to watercooling on the ram but eh might later!

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

You will be fine. Even if you are overclocking it you will still be fine, chances are you will become unstable long before heat becomes an issue.