New Thermaltake memory coolers-with fan.

Placid · Oct 18, 2001

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

Placid · Oct 18, 2001

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

el · Oct 18, 2001

looks sweet any street dates yet?

Pitspawn · Oct 18, 2001

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

Placid · Oct 18, 2001

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 · Oct 19, 2001

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 · Oct 20, 2001

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 · Oct 20, 2001

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 · Oct 20, 2001

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 · Oct 20, 2001

mEKbOY said:
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 · Oct 21, 2001

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 · Oct 25, 2001

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 · Oct 25, 2001

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 · Oct 25, 2001

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

oc jason · Oct 26, 2001

http://www.thermaltake.com/

ge it there

Placid · Nov 9, 2001

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 · Nov 13, 2001

you can get it from www.thermaltake.com

klosters64a · Nov 14, 2001

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 · Nov 14, 2001

Holy moma!

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

Eventually the computer will just turn into a tornado.

Placid · Nov 14, 2001

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

New Thermaltake memory coolers-with fan.

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