Dont worry, flow area is 50mm˛ and thats a lot.
DDR3 tends to run quite cool, but they do get hot with low airflow. And if you start pushing volts they heat up quickly. Also they are excellent case heaters, so keeping them cool to begin with will help your case to stay cool. Which is never a bad thing, right? But you wont see insane gains in frequency![]()
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Admittedly I did it mostly for looks![]()
If the dominators cannot run passively: yes it's useful if you want to eliminate sources of noise (=fans).
Another question if I may. Should I use any kind of TIM betyween the cooler and the ram?
So there will be no pads included in this kit?
should've had copper heatsink that attach where ori. heatsinks(black) go n screw them in same way with old heatsinks.so u get rid of black heatspread for all copper...probly better cooling .
what a waste of money. you're better off bodging up a memory shroud for a 120mm fan run it at 800 rpm and it gets cooler than that abomination. Besides that I think it looks ugly in the first place. Dominators don't look half bad to begin with. Really I can understand cpu,gpu and the mobo but I can't understand harddisk watercooling and memory watercooling at all. It's like buying a nice car and putting a big wing on it. like this:
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Last edited by Hakker; 02-23-2010 at 08:57 AM.
Ok we get your point. But what if the goal of watercooling is actually to eliminate the need for fans (and noise) ? Small things add up. When designing a silent system, you avoid fans where you can avoid them. Or else you end up with more fans than just a pure aircooled system, which defeats the purpose to start with.
Wow, that was helpful, Thanks
LOL, they do have some TIM there in small strips but it's not a "pad" in any way. it's the same kind of TIM that comes on stock video cards. As soon as I would try remove it from it's original resting place it would disintegrate into nothing. I can't see that being more than a one time use thing, it tears too easily. I'm sure I can find a .5mm pad somewhere, suggestions anyone?
This sound new to me. When you look here http://www.legitreviews.com/article/862/2/ to the picture there are pads that you can remove easy.
Also the set i got there was no problem.
Maybe you can use a razor blade to remove them.
six, will you have this block in a nickel plate??
(New build):MSI Big Bang X-power II with XSPC MB blocks, Core I7 3930k@4.6Ghz with HT on, 3x GTX 480 SLI with EK Waterblocks(for now), X-fi Titanium, Gskill quad kit 16GB 2133mhz, 2x240GB Corsair GT SSD's(raid 0), 3xWD 2TB drives, Silverstone Strider ST1500 Watt, Dell3007WFP and 2x Samsung 305T's. Water loop: EK HF CPU block, XSPC RX480 Rad, Coolgate GC480, Airplex Revolution 420 Rad, 2x DDC 3.25 18W with EK dual top, Caselabs STH10 white with customizations....
If you go to this link you'll see they have a nickel/pom version of the RAM block.
(New build):MSI Big Bang X-power II with XSPC MB blocks, Core I7 3930k@4.6Ghz with HT on, 3x GTX 480 SLI with EK Waterblocks(for now), X-fi Titanium, Gskill quad kit 16GB 2133mhz, 2x240GB Corsair GT SSD's(raid 0), 3xWD 2TB drives, Silverstone Strider ST1500 Watt, Dell3007WFP and 2x Samsung 305T's. Water loop: EK HF CPU block, XSPC RX480 Rad, Coolgate GC480, Airplex Revolution 420 Rad, 2x DDC 3.25 18W with EK dual top, Caselabs STH10 white with customizations....
(New build):MSI Big Bang X-power II with XSPC MB blocks, Core I7 3930k@4.6Ghz with HT on, 3x GTX 480 SLI with EK Waterblocks(for now), X-fi Titanium, Gskill quad kit 16GB 2133mhz, 2x240GB Corsair GT SSD's(raid 0), 3xWD 2TB drives, Silverstone Strider ST1500 Watt, Dell3007WFP and 2x Samsung 305T's. Water loop: EK HF CPU block, XSPC RX480 Rad, Coolgate GC480, Airplex Revolution 420 Rad, 2x DDC 3.25 18W with EK dual top, Caselabs STH10 white with customizations....
this thread is useless without internal pictures.
I'd be interested to see if you could add support for the G.Skill Trident series. They have a bolt in the middle instead of one at either end. Seems to me that one block could be made to support both brands of RAM.
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I'm Ron Burgundy?
Rackmounted Liquid FTW!!!!
i7 920 D0 @ 4.41GHz w/ Swiftech Apogee XT
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
6Gb G.Skill Trident 3 x 2Gb DDR3-2000 9-9-9-24
2x HD5850 Xfire - 1000MHz core, 1250MHz RAM
w/ EK full cover waterblock
Laing D5 vario / EK X-TOP rev. 2
2x XSPC RX360 rad w/ 6 x Scythe GT 1850rpm
3 x Seagate 7200.11 160Gb in RAID-0
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1Tb
Corsair HX-850 Modular PSU
M-Audio ProFire 2626
Antec 4U Rackmount Case
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