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Avid6eek
10-21-05, 01:49 PM
Anyone in here ever read any articles on cooling system RAM, wheither it be with water or some other form of cooling? I did read a review of a RAM water cooler that allowed an extra 15Mhz of overclocking. I also recall adding cooling to video cards with DDR memory increase the performance.

I'm asking because I'm using Muskin Redline memory. The added voltage makes the memory extremely warm. While already being able to run 250+ Mhz at CAS2-2-2-5 1T I was wondering if putting a little extra effort into cooling the RAM would help to allow for higher clocks.

Any ideas?
jimmyt
10-21-05, 08:05 PM
whos the whore here..... out of all the people who would know, that one person would probly be you :D
Avid6eek
10-21-05, 08:56 PM
Someone has to know. I can't always be the pioneer!
jimmyt
10-21-05, 09:20 PM
i disagree :D
stlouis1
10-22-05, 04:14 AM
its worth trying if u ask me....for now though, i got me a laptop next week, im satisfied, i just want a new case, n ima stick to my car
PCgeek
10-22-05, 12:37 PM
I've thought about it, but since I've always seen additional cooling on GDDR only add 5 MHz at the most I think its a waste of time and money.
Then again maybe system RAM will respond differently, especially when you start feeding it higher voltages.
§hinoßi
10-22-05, 03:58 PM
yeah, to be honest, extreme cooling is wasted on RAM, if you can spend hundreds to get a 5-10mhz gain.

focus on CPU, GPU, and maybe northbridge :D
Avid6eek
10-22-05, 06:11 PM
yeah, to be honest, extreme cooling is wasted on RAM, if you can spend hundreds to get a 5-10mhz gain.

focus on CPU, GPU, and maybe northbridge :D Cooling advice from the guy who can't figure out how to get his phase change cooler to work? :confused:
PCgeek
10-22-05, 09:23 PM
Cooling advice from the guy who can't figure out how to get his phase change cooler work? :confused:

OH ************************!!! PWNT!!!!

He got u :p
in54n3
10-22-05, 11:13 PM
roflcopter
joims
10-23-05, 01:29 PM
baaahaaaa
PimpMySystem
11-03-05, 06:21 AM
yeah, to be honest, extreme cooling is wasted on RAM, if you can spend hundreds to get a 5-10mhz gain.

focus on CPU, GPU, and maybe northbridge :D

i agree with cpu and gpu but northbridge better not :D waste of cooling :cool:
§hinoßi
11-03-05, 07:04 AM
I've thought about it, but since I've always seen additional cooling on GDDR only add 5 MHz at the most I think its a waste of time and money.
Then again maybe system RAM will respond differently, especially when you start feeding it higher voltages.

cooling GDDR can get you big gains, but GDDR3 and DDR are two different animals. A 100mhz gain on GDDR only amounts to like a 5mhz gain on DDR.
BAM!
11-03-05, 02:46 PM
i am using active cooling on my ballistix 3V. as it already gets extremely hot at 2.8V, now adding on a ram cooling fan Neon Crab on it makes it more stable. when they get hot,.. they tend to yeid a few errors. so active cooling definintey helps in today's high frequency DDRs.
PimpMySystem
11-03-05, 03:50 PM
cooling GDDR can get you big gains, but GDDR3 and DDR are two different animals. A 100mhz gain on GDDR only amounts to like a 5mhz gain on DDR.

100MHZ instead off 5MHZ is impressive indeed :D