[Team.AU] Corsair RAM TEC Cooler/Waterblock

Hey fellas

Corsair sent over their new TEC RAM Cooler kit
well built this thing....unusual to see a RAM TEC cooler but what the hell :D

you could use this as a regular water cooler for RAM as well without TEC
it's dead easy to disassemble, pull the TEC out and just use the block

beware that this is still a beta sample and that final product will have some changes which i cant go into at the moment but it is not all at it seems :)

i pulled it all apart and as you will see you will be able to use different wattage TECs....... the internals are aluminium i would say even though it's pretty heavy so good for benching....24/7 usage is not wise if mixed with copper obviously UNLESS you use it with all alu kit like Corsair Nautilus500(aka N500) or something similar. i did tell the guys even when i got my initial N500 that it would be wise to go copper rad....i'll obviously talk to them again to see if it's feasible to have a copper block and N500 copper rad version as i believe these will be produced for 24/7 use as well....more details later ;);). i use my N500 for benching a lot as its dead easy to change over blocks and cool different rigs ....extremely flexible benching watercooler.....i found it a bit too loud for 24/7 use but i'm really anal about computer noises on my normal day to day PC...i dream of a system without fans or pumps but it just isnt happening atm :rofl:......for my benching gear i'm not bothered that i'm mixing copper and alu...i even have spare 120 copper rads but cbf-ed putting them in heheh

i'll try and fire it up this weekend to see how it all goes and how cold it gets

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i'll be using my trusty old Corsair Nautilus 500 with this block of course :) hehe

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Nice stuff mate but i'm afraid it's not gonna help clocking DDR3 much higher as DDR3 does not really get hot, not even with 2.2V pushed through it so i don't think heat is holding DDR3 back much really.

Might be a different story for Micron D9 based DDR 2 though.

As you say alu mixed with copper is a big nono for 24/7 usage, hope you can convince them to go coppper all the way. ;)

do you need to remove the small heatsinks from each dimm and screw the aluminium plate which is cooled by the TEC over the dimm's??

[edit] confirmed...those screws on top of the RAM heatsinks do line up with holes on the block so it will get screwed into the block

i actually plan to use this on DDR2 first if it can be mounted on them

i never really measured RAM temps i wondered if it does make a difference to some guys which have run their RAM under cold with ghetto pots and DICE or LN2 on the RAM..............i'm sure it doesnt hurt if you run high volts hehehe

can you post some pics with the dimm's without the removable heatsinks?? i wonder if the heat transfer is good enough between the dimm's and the TEC plate.

I bet the block is aluminium so that's a big strike against it around here.

thanks for the breakdown :up: looks interesting, but copper please, lol

Can you show a pic of it mounted m8 ?

dinos im assuming you plug your psu into the tec right? no special psu required.

Wow cool can't wait to see it in action! Be sure to max out those sticks then put the cooler on and max em again. :up:

Definately interesting! waiting to see some performance numbers :)