New Thermaltake memory coolers-with fan.

[Placid]

http://www.iamnotageek.com/cgi-bin/reviews.cgi?name=activemem&p=1

[Placid]

Here it is installed. Notice it will blow on other memory installed.

[el]

looks sweet any street dates yet?

[Pitspawn]

OMG what has the world come to????

Active cooling on DDR sticks????? I thought heatspreaders were excessive, but this just takes the p**s.

Where can you buy this anyway. That would look sweet in my rig :p

[Placid]

No idea when or where to buy them yet as the article did not say and thermaltakes site does not show them yet :(
I will post back when I see them somewhere.

[The Overclocker]

the fan would be far more effective angles, it is just turning the ram into huge fins, i will get the kits and use the heatsinks instead of the spreaders

[Christoph]

Who cares about effective?
Even passive RAM cooling is pointless.
This is obviously for looks, which isn't a bad thing as long as you know. Looks are important, but don't think that this will solve any non-ego related problems.

[Gravity Man]

if it has any effect at all (doubtful), It will probably be on the memory installed in the other slots, and not the one to which the silly apparatus is attatched to.

[mEKbOY]

Dumg idea to me. A god stick of ram will do its intented speeds on its own. Cooling of any kind on ram never shows any gains that are worth it.

[JaY_III]

Originally posted by mEKbOY
Dumg idea to me. A god stick of ram will do its intented speeds on its own. Cooling of any kind on ram never shows any gains that are worth it.

You are wrong on that issuse.....
Added some extra volts to RAM can help your RAM gain MHz
Extra volts means that it needs to be cooled....
thus cooling helps as you can increse the voltage.

True it may be only 5 MHz more.... but it is still something.

[chaosdriven]

I also beg to differ....
My DDR gets quite hot. (+0.4v)

Addition of the memory cooler did appear to give me a marginal increase in stability from about 165->167FSB.

For $7.00 Is it worth it?

The new Epox 8KHA+ allows +0.8v memory adjustments, now that's REALLY going to get hot......

[71skylark]

OK, I thought the passive ones only made a marginal difference, now this is just going for show. I'd love to see a review though.

[Sir-Epix]

Yeah I am using the heatspreaders, because i hope to reach 1.8GHz and I am really worried about heat. That looks cool though.

[jbell]

Cool , but when do the dual fan setups come out???

[oc jason]

http://www.thermaltake.com/

ge it there

[Placid]

Well I said I post when I saw these for sale somewhere so here is a link:

http://www.plycon.com/heatsink.htm

[Wicked Klown]

you can get it from www.thermaltake.com

[klosters64a]

I read a review of this yet another addition to the useless crud that Thermaltake sells. Their "RAM Cooler" reduced the Ram's temp by less than 1C.
Absolutely ridiculous. For the wasted money that one can spend on these useless SDRAM/DDRAM coolers, why not cut a hole in the left case cover right by the Ram? Install a 80-92-120mm fan. Duct it if desired. Ta daah. And it's still a waste of time. Good BASIC airflow works fine to cool the RAM.

Less IS more.

[Yodums]

Holy moma!

Hehe IS THERE THINGS YOU DONT PUT FANS INTO!..

Eventually the computer will just turn into a tornado.

[Placid]

Well I dont know the review that only got a 1c temp drop.

Here is a review.

Installed w/Fan On-38.9c Installed w/Fan Off-42.3c- Bare-44.9c.

http://www.iamnotageek.com/cgi-bin/reviews.cgi?name=activemem&p=2