(chilled)Watercooling RAM any use or waiste of money.

[Entuscan]

http://www.overclockershideout.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/finished2B.gif

Something like this to run some -5°C water through. or just plain ambient as insulating could be a problem.

I never found it usefull as such. But with those new FSB hungry P4 800mhz, every extra mhz out of the memory is starting to count. So in order to cool of the extra volts ...

These things might be the way to getting fast 1:1 fsb's.
Or not??

What do you think, waist of money or not?

[CCW]

no RAM needs that kind of cooling surley?!

passive is fine atm?

[GVCryan]

Thats more of gimmick than anything. Your more likely to hurt your flowrates than to get any advantage from that.

[Tweaked!]

In my opinion, it's a complete waste of time, money, and effort. I overvolt the h*ll out of my ram and it doesn't get all that warm to the touch. I've even seen it said by the best that ram sinks are a waste, that they're just for looks. Which makes sense to me considering that they're mostly flat (without any cooling fins) which would make them more of an insulator than a heat spreader.:cool:

[Tekime]

If I had tons of money to waste I'd probably water cool everything down to my floppy drives (you know how toasty they get at those high FSB's :P).

But realistically, that's totally a gimmick unless you are doing some serious overvolting in a case with NO air flow. I have my doubts about heatspreaders, too... although I don't ahve any data to back up a claim one way or the other.

I think if you are really concerned about DIMM temps, stick a fan over there.

[jdmcnudgent]

it looks very cool though.