Active Ram Cooling

[Regulator07]

I want to actively cool my ram, and am looking to see some of the things people have done in order to do this. right now i got the retail athlon64 fan attached to the side of my panaflo on the cpu holding strong with some rubber bands. was thinking of cutting a whole is the window on the side of my case and putting a 120mm fan over bottom of ran and hopefully the chipset. any suggestions or pics on current setups?

 

[imported_rod]

Why do you want to cool your RAM? It already has platinum heat spreaders, doesn't it?

Well, i have a fan in my side window, but it blows air onto my CPU, not my RAM. It's just a little illuminated 80mm fan, but it looks good and keeps my temps down.

RoD

 

[Regulator07]

yeah i do have the heat spreaders but they got very hot, i am not sure i got good airflow there, i was getting an error in memtest when overclocked to ddr420 and prime blend was failing, i installed the fan and no more errors and blend runs fine.

 

[Blain]

Look Here

 

[imported_llama]

just have a fan blowing over them

 

[Regulator07]

that is what i am doing, it is working good, just wondering if anyone has any pics of their setups

 

[islandtechengineers]

other than ram sinks and fans, liquid cool your rig! I currently have ram sinks with a fan aiming at'em, but after i upgrade to liquid, I plan on running a block to my ram.

 

[Regulator07]

once i get the money i would love to do that, if i ran a liquid cooled system, i would want to cool everything (ram, mosfet, cpu, gpu, chipset)....maybe one day...:roll:

 

[jeffason]

I just bought this replacement part from ABit's part store.. I think it will get the job done fine =)

ABIT OTES RAMFlow? @ http://www.abit-usa.com/abitparts/chipset_fan.php

Pictures & Information @ http://www.abit-usa.com/innovations/otesramflow.php

 

[Snowice]

Originally posted by: jeffason
I just bought this replacement part from ABit's part store.. I think it will get the job done fine =)

ABIT OTES RAMFlow? @ http://www.abit-usa.com/abitparts/chipset_fan.php

Pictures & Information @ http://www.abit-usa.com/innovations/otesramflow.php

is that thing quiet?

 

[furballi]

Put in a large CPU cooler like the Zalman 7700Cu. With most boards, the big 120 mm fan should provide sufficient coverage for four sticks of RAM.

 

[Elfear]

I used the same hsf as you and the big 120mm fan blowing right over the ram kept things pretty cool. Ran my Value VX at 3.5V with no heat issues.

I've read on Xtremesystems.org (very knowledgable people) that heatspreaders aren't all that beneficial and in a lot of cases actually degrade performance. A few people have removed theirs to get a higher oc. Just a thought.

 

[furballi]

yes...the Al heatsink can block air flow to the chips. It's all about exposed surface area to the airstream. Unlike the CPU, the contact area between the heatsink and RAM is VERY small. Not much convection and radiation heat transfer.

 

[jeffason]

Originally posted by: Snowice

Originally posted by: jeffason
I just bought this replacement part from ABit's part store.. I think it will get the job done fine =)

ABIT OTES RAMFlow? @ http://www.abit-usa.com/abitparts/chipset_fan.php

Pictures & Information @ http://www.abit-usa.com/innovations/otesramflow.php

is that thing quiet?

im not sure if its quiet or not, i havent got mine yet.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Similar to the Abit OTES Ramflows, I got these from eWiz and they're virtually silent:
Active Ram Cooler

 

[jeffason]

nice capt, wish i would have seen those earlier =)

 

[Snowice]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Similar to the Abit OTES Ramflows, I got these from eWiz and they're virtually silent:
Active Ram Cooler

cool thx... i might get it

 

[JBDan]

Originally posted by: Regulator07
I want to actively cool my ram, and am looking to see some of the things people have done in order to do this. right now i got the retail athlon64 fan attached to the side of my panaflo on the cpu holding strong with some rubber bands. was thinking of cutting a whole is the window on the side of my case and putting a 120mm fan over bottom of ran and hopefully the chipset. any suggestions or pics on current setups?

I essentially have the same rig as you minus the sli mobo. I have the A8V Dlx. Your memtest errors are due to your ram speed and the timings not the heat IMO. That memory is not the best oc'er and will not run cas 2 over 200-210 w/o memtest errors especially in test 5. You should also up your vdimm to 2.8V. Just a suggestion, but why dont you run 240x10 and use the 166 divider giving you a perfect 200 MHz ram speed where you can run your 2-2-2-5 timings plus you get 2400MHz on your cpu. Might have to up your vcore a little (Mine is at 1.475). My thoughts