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    Lightbulb Idea for water cooling ram ghetto

    had a simple idea for watercooling ram.
    Corsair Domitor ram comes with a heatsink screwed onto the top

    if i were to remove the heatsink, and attach a flat copper plate with copper tubes soldered onto it.
    that should work i think.
    doesn't anyone know if the top of the ram is flat once the heatsink is removed?


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    and that is simular to how mips did it.

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    only difrence is with mips u pay a lot of $$$
    I have a sheet of copper and tubing, so it will only cost me a few elbows.
    that is what $2.


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    go for it!

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    Don't forget to post pics and results. Do a worklog on it.
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    Except watercooling ram is about as useful as watercooling hard drives >_>.

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    do it !! sounds interesting
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    ram chips are small black squares. You could probably rip the heatspreaders off and run rectangular/squished copper tubing through loops around them.

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    well my machine is all watercooled, CPU, northbridge, video card raid card, so i have very little air flow.
    when i touched my ram if failed teh 2 second rule. if u can hold it for 2 seconds its not to hot.
    so I would guess its at 50deg c easy. so no telling me ram doesn't get hot.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Boogerlad View Post
    ram chips are small black squares. You could probably rip the heatspreaders off and run rectangular/squished copper tubing through loops around them.
    the sticks are to close together.
    for x58 systems with all 6 banks filled. there would realy be no room.


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    Love the idea. Maybe the MIPS block will give you new ideas. It should help you with the design anyway:


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    Quote Originally Posted by MadHacker View Post
    had a simple idea for watercooling ram.
    Corsair Domitor ram comes with a heatsink screwed onto the top

    if i were to remove the heatsink, and attach a flat copper plate with copper tubes soldered onto it.
    that should work i think.
    doesn't anyone know if the top of the ram is flat once the heatsink is removed?
    Its a tried and working design. Was a quite popular way of making your own blocks a few years ago

    So defiantly give it a try
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexandr0s View Post
    Love the idea. Maybe the MIPS block will give you new ideas. It should help you with the design anyway:

    thanks.
    I found the image earlier when Naekuh mentioned mips did it already.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Boogerlad View Post
    ram chips are small black squares. You could probably rip the heatspreaders off and run rectangular/squished copper tubing through loops around them.
    never ever try and rip the heatspreaders off corsair ram they glue them on with superglue or something, you will rip the ram chips off, the only way to do it is to try and heat up the heatspreaders and ease them off.
    My experience:
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    Quote Originally Posted by TRICHEESE View Post
    never ever try and rip the heatspreaders off corsair ram they glue them on with superglue or something, you will rip the ram chips off, the only way to do it is to try and heat up the heatspreaders and ease them off.
    My experience:
    that and it voids the waranty as well.
    with the my mods i do i try to minimize on that.


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    what i thought of doing was getting a chunk of copper and attaching a koolance gpu-200 or three with peltiers imbetween the chunk of copper and the WB and strapping that to the ram

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    there have been a lot of testing and it showed cooling ram, doesn't improve performace.
    I just want to water cool mine to prolong life and decrease number of fans, hence less noise.


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    Quote Originally Posted by TRICHEESE View Post
    never ever try and rip the heatspreaders off corsair ram they glue them on with superglue or something, you will rip the ram chips off, the only way to do it is to try and heat up the heatspreaders and ease them off.
    My experience:
    Holy F.. glue it back together and innocently RMA it
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    Quote Originally Posted by zads View Post
    Holy F.. glue it back together and innocently RMA it
    I think they may notice.

    as for getting this project going
    right now i have Gskill ram, so i would have to sell them, once i get them back from RMA, 6 sticks, 2 bad, 1 from each set.
    then get my motherboard. and new ram.
    still undecided about motherboard. but that is another issue/thread.


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    Quote Originally Posted by zads View Post
    Holy F.. glue it back together and innocently RMA it
    Someone here is trying to be smarter than Corsair ,But i think that if he didn't glue it in a good way and did mess things up they will notice and they simply won't RMA
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    I think us modders realize, if we can't afford to replace it, don't mess with it.
    myself i prefer not to replace it... most times. so anything i do is just simple mods. change this part or another. always able to put it back into its original state.


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    Quote Originally Posted by millertime359 View Post
    Don't forget to post pics and results. Do a worklog on it.
    Started worklog here


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    Quote Originally Posted by TRICHEESE View Post
    never ever try and rip the heatspreaders off corsair ram they glue them on with superglue or something, you will rip the ram chips off, the only way to do it is to try and heat up the heatspreaders and ease them off.
    My experience:
    damn... i wish i could have been there to see the expression on your face when you saw that for the first time...
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    Quote Originally Posted by kinghong1970 View Post
    damn... i wish i could have been there to see the expression on your face when you saw that for the first time...
    I think this description comes close :


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