Will this work?

I was thinking of taking off the heatsinks on my ram, putting some arctic silver on each little chip, then replacing the heatsink, what do you think? I'm thinking about getting the ballistix ram, but have heard that they run really hot. Is there any other active or passive ram cooling methods? Do those little heatsinks that you put on each die work better than the manufacturers heatsink? Does doing any of this void your warranty?

The manufacturers use heatspreaders and removing them voids your warranty. I don't believe you can use AS5 on ram because of it being capacitive. Also, there would be nothing holding the heatspreaders on to the ram.

Doing what you're suggesting with the heatspreaders won't work. Yes, the individual heatsinks work much better than the heatspreaders. You can attach them with Arctic Silver adhesive or Alumina adhesive. Yes, doing any of that will void your warranty. You can actively cool them instead of or addition to putting heatsinks on the chips. This won't void your warranty. Try one of the following two:

http://reviews.pimprig.com/cooling/super_talent_memory_cooler.php
http://www.xoxide.com/neon-crab-memory-cooler.html

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Doing what you're suggesting with the heatspreaders won't work. Yes, the individual heatsinks work much better than the heatspreaders. You can attach them with Arctic Silver adhesive or Alumina adhesive. Yes, doing any of that will void your warranty. You can actively cool them instead of or addition to putting heatsinks on the chips. This won't void your warranty. Try one of the following two:

http://reviews.pimprig.com/cooling/super_talent_memory_cooler.php
http://www.xoxide.com/neon-crab-memory-cooler.html

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And both have lights . It has always seemed weird to me when people place something that creates heat on something that is supposed to cool.

LEDs dont really put out heat, if any you will never notice it

Herr Rogers said:

And both have lights . It has always seemed weird to me when people place something that creates heat on something that is supposed to cool.

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Well, the amount of heat generated by LEDs is completely insignificant. So-called cold cathode tubes, however, are another story. I have some in my case and set them to blink on and off about once every second, they stay relatively cool like that, but if left on become too hot to grasp. For LED fans, however, the fan motor will generate much more heat than the LEDs possibly could. The airflow still more than makes up for that.