active cooling for memory

[tjpark1111]

I'm gonna be overclocking my entire system, including my memory, which is Crucial Ballistix PC3200 2x512MB, which has aluminum heatspreaders. I was wondering if I will be needing active cooling on it,(an extra fan), because I will be putting voltages and some serious speed on it. I will have a scythe ninja and a yate loon 120mm attached to the side of the ninja, in which the memory is right next to it and might provide some cooling to them as well as cooling the cpu. Just for reference, my board will be the EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra and my case will be an Antec SLK 3800-B(same thing as a 3000b).

 

[zagood]

Well, depends on how heavy your voltage is.

Luckily it's one of the easiest mods you can ever do. You just need a fan and a big rubber band. Just place the fan on top of the ram sticks and put the rubber bands around the outside of the fan, attach the rubber band at the notches in the ram.

Oh, wait...blah...you've got heatspreaders.

Well try it out anyway if you've got an extra fan lying around.

-z

 

[Nirach]

Some airflow over the heatsinks should be adequate, so.. I don't know much about that cases cooling potential, but a fan directed at the RAM should keep it sufficiently cool. Ram rarely requires hugely active cooling, but if I were you I'd try to get a bit more active cooling headed its way to keep it satisfactory. If you've got temperature probes you could fiddle with the airflow until it was an acceptable temperature.

If you really wanted to go mental, Koolance do RAM water cooling things. But that's a whole new expense, and probably pointless 😀

 

[Creig]

If you're worried about memory temps, you could try getting an Evercool Neon Crab cooler. Simple, cheap and effective at dropping memory temps.

 

[themusgrat]

Some cooling is nice, a 40mm fan does it for me.