Koolance releases ram waterblock | Doubles as a brick wall for flow!

http://www.koolance.com/shop/product...roducts_id=251

Looks cool, an horribly restrictive and corrosion promoting. But um...dunno...guess it's the best watercooling product I've seen yet from Koolance in terms of um...something.

Seriously though, I don't know why, but I want a secondary loop for my ram and chipset real bad and I want some good ram blocks that I think will actually cool better than the 92mm fan I'm using over my sticks now. I don't think this is it though, to me these "blocks" look like nothing more than aluminum heatspreaders with a small block mounted on top in the middle to dissipate heat and thousands of little compression fittings, 90 degree bends, and 1/4" ID tubing to bring your flow to a slow trickle. I hope to god no one considers this for their main loop.

let this be the beginning of something beautiful :)

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Originally Posted by EnJoY

http://www.koolance.com/shop/product...roducts_id=251guess it's the best watercooling product I've seen yet from Koolance in terms of um...something.

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suckyness?

That waterblock makes iwakis across the globe cry a tear or mourning.

Not to mention that it won't help you oc at all. Looks like a giant waste of money, IMO.

Maxxx, do me a favor and ask Weapon (you know him better it seems) to make the XS community a nice, extremely high flow, extremely adaptable copper ram waterblock that actually keeps load temps below that of a 92/120mm fan for high density/high voltage/high speed ram.

Or it makes the Iwakis explode due to the restriction.


BOOM!


Well, my opinion :) yea this could be the start of something, and if it were a better product with 1/2 ID then I would consider it.

Introducing the Restrico Corroder RAM Block only 5 payments of 19.99.

my 20RZT is crying. So is the copper.
Well, um... its better than the alternatives (or utter lack thereof)
look on the bright side: it does double-sided DIMMs, and 2 of em. if thats a bright side.

So I guess I'll need to order 4 of these for my 4X256 Ram huh?....lol

no, 2

it looks very cool!

Do you think I should also get a 120mm fan to blow on this cooler or use (2) 92mm fans or perhaps 1 tornado???

heh... well it seems that this block does a great job of cooling absolutely nothing... does the water even touch the aluminum at all???

i was going to do more reasearch on RAM cooling as i'm looking to get a block to cool the power IC's on my PSU (going for 100% silence in my WC HTPC) and RAM cooling is the best thing i could think of... although this block is a poor solution for... well... anything >_>

1/4" ID is, unfortunately, a bit of a neccessity for RAM watercooling.

There is NO room for 1/2" ID tubing around the RAM slots, especially not with the tight bends needed for RAM waterclocks. Even 3/8" ID would be pushing it. RAM waterblocks need to be on a seperate loop from everything else due to the restriction involved in thin enough blocks.

I envision a small pump and a double sized 80mm radiator for a RAM watercooling loop, and like you EnJoY, I would be willing to build such a loop if the parts presented themselves for a reasonable price.

I am confident that the gains would be worthwhile, especially given that properly made waterblocks would be a good future-proof investment and would fit DDR1/DDR2.



This design is the best that I have seen so far. If it was copper, and didn't have a logo, it would be purchase-worthy in my opinion.

But not for $50, that's piracy.

The only people who would benefit from such a block are people with the know-how to use it effectively in a dedicated loop, on some very hot memory seeing a lot of stress and abuse (like BH-5 being run at 3.8V+ and high speeds, or some Micron). So, it is clear to me that the market this block was made for, is the market with more money than know-how. Which is really lame in my opinion. Overpriced, inferior products.

And i wouldn't buy one without seeing the internals first.

^ Well said. I need a copper block though first a foremost, aluminum just does not stand with me. Small pump, medium rad, a high flow good performing blocks for ram and chipset that can be used easily on various motherboards and don't get in the way of other things.

http://www.slo-tech.com/script/forum...e=1#neprebrano

I doubt that he made all the plans and sent the to someone to make the blocks yet. I also know that a LOT of you don't understand, so just look at the pictures and if you want to know something, just ask. The 'final' design is the 'lower'-(thread-wise)-most.

Looks really decent! That appears to be a pretty good design.

However, his barb positioning looks like it will only allow for the use of one block at a time.

With the tubing coming out the "side" of the RAM, the tubing would go overtop of adjacent RAM slots and prevent their use, would it not?

Also, has he considered that the internal fin structure should be designed to cover and provide heat dissipation to all 4 of the memory chips on each side of a double sided stick? His internal fin structure appears to be a little smallish, I am not sure if the ICs on the ends of each stick would be getting the same degree of thorough cooling as the ICs in the middle.


I hate to nitpick - the design is one of the best I have seen. But, if I for one were to purchase such blocks I would want them to be designed as efficiently as possible. My attitutde towards something like memory watercooling is that if you are going to bother going through the trouble and expense of doing it, you may as well do it as near to perfectl as you can the first time, and do it in a manner that will be future-proof :D.

About the barb issue: You can put a barb on one side (let's say that the hose goes past the CPU socket and in), link 2 blocks with a short piece of hose (for instance a copper hose with a thread that is screwed in or a piece of same hose, but soldered in place) and then the other barb leaves the second block on the completely other side. That design however doesn't allow for 4 sticks of RAM to be cooled.

Sorry for the delay fellas, the documentation has been made. It's now up to the CNC owner to bring this waterblock to life... :toast:

cool, can't wait to see it in action!

I'm looking forward to results!

I saw this the other day, and I really didn't think too much about it. But we'll see after some reviews

With the introduction of DDR2 to the AMD platform in Q3 2006, will there be that much of a need to cool the memory? Doesn't DD2 run cooler?

This Koolance water cooler for RAM uses a plastic bladder just like their HD coolers, its not an aluminum block ;)

The slo-tech pages isn't available :( But if anyone could tell what it said, it would be nice :) The koolance block seems a bit strange :/ Does anyone have a diagram of it? Dunno if anyone have seen this one before: http://www.alphacool.de/xt/product_i...cPath=5_18_274
It's made of nickled copper.. I got their mini cooler's for GFX memory, and it actualy doesn't bock the flow as much as I would have expected.. But dunno if it's any good, it seems a bit slim..