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Is anyone here using active ram cooling for higher speed DDR5?

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I've been looking online for info regarding ram instability due to heat. I found a bit over at overclock.net but nothing very useful. I was wondering if anyone here has implemented some sort of ram cooling only for DDR5 modules that are running at really high speeds. I remember back in the day many of us used ram coolers or just a simple fan blowing on the sticks. Is this necesary these days or is it much ado about nothing? All answers for/against and solutions welcome.
 
You mean like this thing? I don't OC so I have no idea if it's a good idea or not. It could increase the airflow over the RAM to improve some temps but if you have a front radiator or a stack of HDD up front, the air temps would be warmer than external air? It seems like it may get in the way of a CPU cooler tower.

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OR if you are watercooling, go with Alphacool's water RAM cooler?
 
moocow said:
You mean like this thing? I don't OC so I have no idea if it's a good idea or not. It could increase the airflow over the RAM to improve some temps but if you have a front radiator or a stack of HDD up front, the air temps would be warmer than external air? It seems like it may get in the way of a CPU cooler tower.

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OR if you are watercooling, go with Alphacool's water RAM cooler?
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Ahhhh..... memories. :)

I had a similar piece of kit back in the early DDR days (or was it before DDR?). Not sure it made much difference, but it was certainly blingy.... :)
 
Corsair had clip on fans in the DDR2/DDR3 era. I had a couple of them didn't make a difference. When I had the watercooled motherboard and watercooler powersupply I also looked at watercooling the ram just for the completeness of it but again doesn't really make sense. The ram with built in heat spreaders tend to be more then enough to keep temperatures in check. It was just the old raw chip style sticks that had issues and most of those were srippled with bad timings anyways.
 
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