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DDR cooler perferences?
« Thread Started on Mar 28, 2007, 3:31pm »

Greetings all,
I have suddenly found myself on a cooling kick and just wanted to know if anyone has a personal favorite for cooling their RAM? Copper or Aluminum, etc. Oh, and does color make a difference? All the sinks on a certain website seem to be pink, er, magenta (except for that one MDD with copper).

Thanks very much, folks.

Cheers,
Chris

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Re: DDR cooler perferences?
« Reply #1 on Mar 28, 2007, 7:44pm »

Black is probably the best colour (best radiator of heat) but tricky to get hold off, other than that, copper is a great conductor of heat and therefore works well. Quite surprising how warm these can get when fitted. They also add a bit of zing to the interior of your mac!

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Re: DDR cooler perferences?
« Reply #2 on Mar 28, 2007, 8:23pm »

Hi Chris,
Whatever you choose make sure that you have good airflow around the modules. Without the airflow any heatsink will be ineffective. Also, for aftermarket coolers make sure you get good all-over contact between chip and heatsink, and use thermal paste.
For the ultimate memory cooling you could try this, unfortunately beyond my budget.

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Re: DDR cooler perferences?
« Reply #3 on Mar 29, 2007, 1:57pm »

Wow! Water cooled RAM sinks! That would be for the uber over-clocker? I think I'll stick with copper for my lowly PC133 sticks!

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« Reply #4 on Mar 29, 2007, 5:28pm »

I know, kinda bling aren't they! I saw them in Micro Mart a couple of weeks a go and they popped into my head seeing your question. They would go on my dream machine list, along with twin SLI 8800s and flash based hard drives.

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Re: DDR cooler perferences?
« Reply #5 on Mar 29, 2007, 9:31pm »

Heh, heh. Flesh based hard...uhm, wait! Did you say FLASH? Never mind!

But, yes, I agree. Mate (sorry) that RAM up with dual 8800's on a nice 680i based MoBo and a QX6700 CPU and you would have my dream hackintosh. Anybody wanna buy a Kidney?

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Re: DDR cooler perferences?
« Reply #6 on Mar 30, 2007, 9:21am »

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Heh, heh. Flesh based hard...uhm, wait! Did you say FLASH? Never mind!

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But, yes, I agree. Mate (sorry) that RAM up with dual 8800's on a nice 680i based MoBo and a QX6700 CPU and you would have my dream hackintosh. Anybody wanna buy a Kidney?

d**n! That was my plan. I put one on eBay but they pulled the action >:(

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Re: DDR cooler perferences?
« Reply #7 on Mar 31, 2007, 3:00am »

Jeez Rit! That was sick! My Little Pony? What did I ever do you you?

Seriously, that was hilarious! I know several people that are going to kill me when they see that. As for that black market organ thing, I can't believe ebay doesn't see the value of such a service. I mean, sure, you would want a fairly quick end date (or could you sell it/them as a pre-release?) and a Buy it Now option but really...
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to get those precious shiny computer bits. d**n!

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Re: DDR cooler perferences?
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Heh, heh. Flesh based hard...uhm, wait! Did you say FLASH? Never mind!