Watercooling memory

[masychefx2]

So I bought a bundle off ebay and the guy ruined the ram hacking off the heatspreaders to fit his cpu fan in, I simply cant live with the ram as it is now even though its hidden by a fan im too ocd. so I decided to run a memory watercooling with the cpu, is this just aesthetics or will I gain anything from this?

[DanceswithUnix]

AIUI the "heat spreaders" are more about memory companies getting fewer returns from static electricity damage during handling than anything to do with heat. They also make an otherwise really dull looking circuit board look like a branded shiny item. I think you have to be overclocking the stuff fairly hard for heat to matter.

[shaithis]

Water-cooled RAM? Even "back in the day" when water-cooling showed huge benefits due to the voltages being used, hardly anyone water-cooled their RAM because the chances you would have a perceivable benefit was slim to zero.

[Lee H]

I wouldn't bother at all with cooling RAM.

its a waste of time, energy and money to try and squeeze the extra MHz out of the memory, especially more so with more current platforms so you'd be better investing that money you'd have used for RAM cooling into other areas of the system as memory speed doesn't impact gaming performance that much it seems ;

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/ram/85...4-3200/?page=6

You'd get a better returns by slightly overclocking your GPU as opposed to trying to run RAM as fast as physically possible

[pastymuncher]

It's complete waste of time and money. I have 4x 4Gb sticks of Samsung Green which is supposed to be 1600mhz at 1.35v with a slack timings of 11-11-11-28. I have them overclocked to 2133mhz at 1.5v with much tighter timings of 9-10-10-21 and they barely get warm. The best bit is that they are naked, no heatsink at all!! By removing any heatsinks you also void your warranty.

[masychefx2]

I think after all the advice I will not watercool them. seems kinda stupid after all you guys said.

[masychefx2]

I would like to overclock mine. how do you do it?

[GoNz0]

I would like to overclock mine. how do you do it?

http://bfy.tw/24vg

[masychefx2]

Im going to watercool the memory

[pastymuncher]

It's completely up to you but you are wasting your money, voiding your warranty if you remove heatsinks and adding restriction to the loop.

[pompeytom247]

Personally I don't think water cooling memory is a waste of money, if you are water cooling everything else, you might as well water cool the memory?

[Mister]

RAM is built to withstand really high temperatures now so it's pointless. In fact many stock GPU coolers don't even cover the ram, because they are rated up to such high temperatures theres no point.

The heat spreaders on DDR3/4 is just to make them look fancy and protect the chips from physical damage.

[pastymuncher]

Personally I don't think water cooling memory is a waste of money, if you are water cooling everything else, you might as well water cool the memory?

You don't gain anything though. It cost's money, adds restriction to the loop, the extra tubing can look messy and it voids the warranty if you remove any heatsinks (there's also the chance of tearing memory chips off with the heatsinks). My ram is overclocked, overvolted and naked yet barely gets warm.

[MyUserName]

When has watercooling ever really been about anything other than aesthetics

[GoNz0]

When has watercooling ever really been about anything other than aesthetics

For real?

Better ways to spam to 20 posts you know.

[MyUserName]

Just a joke. I'm not trying to get to 20 posts mate I needed 5 to post a link to a scan saved basket and ask for help. I notice that thread is still empty though, strange that.