Water cooling for your ram!

[scorchio]

Been having a bit of a surf as you do and came accross this!

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,1330.html

Looks rather a nice bit of kit and unlike previous coolers has the ability to cool ram on both sides.It would be interesting to see the benefits of this RAM Cooler under extreme cooling.

It may also benefit those of you who prefer silent cooling methods!

 

[K404]

Seen em, want em unfortunately, most existing RAM blocks need alternating slots for DC, else there aint space. My Epox suffers there.

anyone got sub-ambient watercooling? I`d love to know how maddening it would be to insulate sticks of memory!

Kenny

 

[PHILIP1193]

there is no benifit for water cooling ram, it does not help over clocking it would only simply help if you ram very high voltages they will do no more than what an 80mm fan would do on teh memory

Phil

 

[Master_G]

Watercooling ram is sooooo pointless, slow moving 120mm fan and copper ramsinks are all you need at most, even up to 4V.

Add restriction, adds heat, gains nothing. Expensive eye candy if you ask me.

G

 

[K404]

Yup, agreed. It doesnt help OC, but means a higher voltage can be applied with more protection. Maybe useful if the RAM being used isnt meant for BH-5 voltages...

Cant knock "expensive eye candy" too much...Anodised case, anyone?

Kenny

 

[scorchio]

We all like eye candy!

Yup, agreed. It doesnt help OC, but means a higher voltage can be applied with more protection. Maybe useful if the RAM being used isnt meant for BH-5 voltages...

Cant knock "expensive eye candy" too much...Anodised case, anyone?

Kenny

 

[maverik-sg1]

I have seen loads of arguments for and against this.

My thoughts are this:

In principal it's another heat source removed from the case and you get good cooling on the ram - to implement properly you would need to run this loop in parallel (not in series) wit other components to avoid restriction (or use a separate loop?).

Because you will need to cool dual channel you will need two - or perhaps a 4dimm cooler would be better?

It's incredibaly good looking but you really do have to question what level on increase it brings.

A far more improtant piece to watercool would be the mosfets - especially on the 4v dimm rail on DFI mobos.

Not having the best looking machine already, it's not high on my shopping list.

The Coach

 

[Master_G]

I have never found ram to be a large enough heat source to warrant so much cooling, only way i would ever do this is for silent computing, and i would run 2 loops, one for CPU and GPUs, the other for chipset, mosfets and ram, that way i could put the restrictive blocks in a loop where stunning temps arent necessary, only reasonable ones.

I have issues with expensive eye candy cos i cant afford it lol i get jealous

G

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

Well I like eye candy, and I've got something regards this lined up. Keep your eyes peeled!