Cooling OCZ VX - Heatsinks for RAM?...

[cinders]

My VX gets extremely hot and so does my booster (@ 3.4v)...

I have a fan with a wind tunnel blowing cold air over the ram and booster.

I've modded the booster by moving the mosfets to the back and installing huge heatsinks to them which are doing the job nicely....

However the heatspeaders on the ram get extremely hot (i'm sure this is holding back my o/c on this stuff) so I'm looking at a better way to cool the ram....

I'm thinking of removing the heatspeaders as they don't seem to dissapate the heat to well and I was wondering if there are any heatsinks you can fit to the ram chips?...

Is there any watercooled blocks you can get for memory?...


Cinders.

[RacerX]

I can't speak for your OCZ VX but my PC3200EL Plat rev2 would get pretty hot with the heatspreaders only with 2.8v, though they don't really need that much to hit high HTT. I removed my spreaders and pushed 3v thru them and the chips only got slightly warm after a few hours of gaming.

There really isn't a postive reason why they use the spreaders except for hiding the chips they use. Just my personal opinion.

[eva2000]

i just use 2x 60x25mm fans tied together and they sit on the memory heatspreaders.. keeps ram very cool according to thermal probes i.e. 33-38C at 3.6v vdimm while looping memtest86+ v1.40 for 12-22+ hrs

[cinders]

I personally don't think the heatspreaders do much at all. They could at least have fins on them to help dissipate the heat....

I'm going to pull mine off tonight and see if that helps matters.

Some watercooled blocks would be nice...

[Yanus]

i don´t think there are any water blocks for ram, but u could make one. Let me see if i can explain this correctly:

2 plates of copper
copper tube
2 connectors

The idea is to have each plate on one side of the stick, the tube is welded to the plates and goes around the stick. What i mean is the water enters in one side (enters on one tube on one of the plates) and comes out on the other tube (plate). This is my idea, i don´t think i was able to explain it very well, i did the best ai could. At least is an ideia.

[Playful_Buffalo]

you can buy watercooled blocks at www.xoxide.com

[Yanus]

Originally Posted by Playful_Buffalo

you can buy watercooled blocks at www.xoxide.com

Nice! thanks a bunch! It´s useful to me 2