ram cooling

Soilwork · Mar 12, 2005, 07:59 AM

hey guys

Is there anything in the market at the moment that will actively cool RAM modules. I saw a review of an ABIT AN8 Fatality the other day with the OTES RAM cooler and I want to know if there is anything avaiable to us non Abit users.

Randy P · Mar 12, 2005, 08:13 AM

Ram cooling.....I stuck a fan on my ram.....a little bit of backyard pc mechanic jazz

Soilwork · Mar 12, 2005, 08:17 AM

might well have to follow your example

Randy P · Mar 12, 2005, 08:28 AM

I used some double sticky sided picture hanging 'board' cut into small strips. You should be able to get 3-5 little rectangles of the stuff roughly twice as long as your middle finger, as wide as your thumb, and not quite as think as ordinary box cardboard in a pack. Then just slice it into strips for the edges of the fan/tops of the RAM.

Soilwork · Mar 12, 2005, 08:30 AM

could you post a pic? I'd appreciate it!

Randy P · Mar 12, 2005, 08:32 AM

I would, but my digital cam is in another province....lol

Just picture it: if your ram is vertical, put your sticky horizontal...so your square fan will, in reality, only have sticky on 2 sides.

davidnsibs · Mar 12, 2005, 08:46 AM

you mean like this?

http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/memory/a1165.htm
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...ldID=&doy=12m3

Soilwork · Mar 12, 2005, 09:34 AM

hmmmm.... could do. just need to see if it'll fit my RAM

CDsDontBurn · Mar 12, 2005, 11:26 AM

for cooling ram, what i find best is just simple heat spreaders. There shouldn't be any need for a fan attached to the heat spreader. What i find best for cooling ram is simply just heat spreaders, and a side panel fan blowing over your ram and the OTES. Keeping the OTES cool is in my opinion much more important than keeping ram cool.