My rams are oced, and at 1.95v. Since I have a couple of old P2 and P3 pcs that I do not use anymore, I`ve decided to make a ram cooler frm it. What do u think?





For the fan I use a 8x8 cm fan, spins around 3000rpm as claimed

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Added on January 18, 2009, 1:24 pmAny suggestions on how am I to fix it, without the metal hs touching the ram chips?

This post has been edited by shaun3230: Jan 18 2009, 01:24 PM

There is no easy way out, for a heatsink to work, it MUST have good contact with the object being cooled (in this case, ram chips). Otherwise, put the fan blowing on the chips, and forget about the heatsink.

I tried and it fits well on my rams, temps are absorbed by the heat sink

I dont get which part u were supposed to stick ur ram to....

The fins are attatched to the ram and the HS is cooled by the fan

i think the heatsink doesnt serve any purpose

imo just the 80mm will do the job

I'm going to use this ..got it from my dead x360...

so complicated... i took a 40mm delta fan and double sided tape, tape it onto my mobo and blow the ram from bottom up... settle

I have 2 more 8cm fans... Is the cooler better off without the hs? Cause frm what I know, the heat is absorbed by the hs and teh fan cools teh hs?

Ram actually doesn't put out much heat, so even 1 medium 60mm fan and no heatsink/heatspreader is usually more than enough. But up to you really, the heatsink will improve things if it contacts the ram chips properly. Most heatspreaders actually don't work because of lousy thermal contact using poor quality thermal tape. Most of the time heatspreaders just end up being cosmetic improvements, plus a bit of protection from physical damage.

So, can I apply any thermal paste to my ram?

Should be no problem.

aiyo why so fussy ask AllnGap la he got massive stock of Ram Cooler and fans PM him for more info.

How much? I`m diy-ing coz I got lots of old stuff that can still be used...

That HS last time was my Packard Bell pc for a 233MHz P2, passive cooling some more

very creative! nice work

Performance ram do produce lots of heat.

yea i agree.. my performance ram produce heats at least 2/3 times then my value ram!

our friend here using a waste cooler as an alternative cooler for his ram.. very creative lo..

Don't confuse heat & temperature. Ram even at massively overclocked speeds hardly puts out 15-20W of heat, which is nothing when you consider its spread out over a fairly large surface (8-16 chips/stick, multipled by number of sticks). Each chip is putting out maybe 1W at most.

The problem is that the ram area is poorly ventilated in most systems (first ram stick blocks air from CPU fan, no other fans nearby), so with nowhere for the heat to go, temperatures rise even though there's actually very little heat. That's why even a single medium speed fan can effortlessly keep ram cool.

i think the fan should be at the heat sink..

terbalik lor bro..

hehehe...

Yupp agree....eekekeke...

Anyway nice try dude...

Do show me some SS on installing it on your MOBO...