RAM Cooler: Any Point?

Short answer: no.

Long answer: No, as long as there is some form of airflow in the case your ram will be fine.
 
I had a ram cooler, and you could notice the ram sticks being slightly cooler to the touch, but that was about it.
 
I've got one because I was paranoid that I was putting a bit too much juice through them, and also because I wanted a little bit more airflow on the passively cooled north bridge fusion block, whick is basically blocked by the CPU heatsink and memory heatsinks. really though unless you are putting mega voltage through your RAM you don't need one. Most memory only has a heatsink so that manufacturers can make it look "enthusiast" and slap a big price tag on it.
 
Not unless you are clocking heavily. My OCZ XTC made the difference between stable and instant crashing when running my E4300 at 3.5 on mushkin XP2-8500
 
name='llwyd' said:
Not unless you are clocking heavily. My OCZ XTC made the difference between stable and instant crashing when running my E4300 at 3.5 on mushkin XP2-8500
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You're the first person I know to benefit from it!
 
name='teknokid' said:
You're the first person I know to benefit from it!
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Yea I was skeptical when I got it but I was running the RAM at their highest warranty rated (:rolleyes:) voltage and clocked right up to their max, they would get very very hot. Theyre not worth it unless you are really really pushing high end memory (which it was at the time lol)
 
Well I have my Flex II watercooled and I still struggle to get it to work at stock speeds due to it not liking X38 that much.
 
I gave up with my ddr3, i run it at tighter latencies and lower speed on my striker II, but at 1.8V which isn't too bad
 
When I had the my old Commando/DDR2 rig I had a Dominator Airflow cooler on the RAM, it made little difference to the RAM, but it did knock a good 8-10*C off the toasty P965 northbridge.:)
 
That's what I use mine for, plus it looks quite good on top of those DHX heatsinks, and gives a different look to the case
 
I think there needs to be a distinct line drawn between heatspreader and heatsink.

RAM heatspreaders that just 'spread' the heat over a slightly larger surface made of aluminium do sweet FA apart from look good (sometimes).

Heatsinks..like those seen on the Dominator's, Flex..etc CAN help as they draw the heat away from the modules.

Of course the benefit of any kind of ram cooling has declined throught they years anyway. Performance DDR NEEDED it, Some DDR2 kinda needs it, DDR3 dosn't really seem to need it.
 
I think the very long heat spreaders/heatsinks (like dominators or reapers) probably do a bit (the ones that extend above the chip). Any speading is going to do something by providing a larger area to disapate heat from. On the other hand, the something is probably not very detectable. The ram cooler probably does something, but whether that is useful is a different kettle of fish.
 
You could always just get one of those antec spot cools and aim it at an angle so it blows over your RAM and Northbridge
 
The advantage of the ram cooler, is that it looks quite good generally, like it is supposed to be there, whereas the antec spot cool looks like a bit of a bodge.
 
Most of those RAM coolers are 40mm fan based, and don't spin too fast so they are drowned out by the 40CFM+ fans most of us have. The only noise my pc makes is the woosh from the 140mm and the bellow from the 280gtxs. The 22cm 100CFM (ish) is very quiet.
 
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