New Koolance Waterblock.

[Balthazar]

RAM-30-V06

That is pretty much EXACTLY what I have been waiting for!

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: Balthazar
RAM-30-V06

That is pretty much EXACTLY what I have been waiting for!

not necessary except for bragging right,,,but still looks nice I must admit!!

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I have to admit, that's pretty awesome. I know of atleast a few people that have been looking for something just like that, so I'm glad a good (hopefully, anyway) product has came out for them...

 

[Balthazar]

Actually in my case the ram is in such a horrid spot, its in such a way that short of drilling a hole in the side of the case right above the ram I can't get any airflow there, it runs so hot its retarded.

I don't know why every cable on my motherboard had to be placed in such a way as to nicely cocoon the RAM.

 

[JEDIYoda]

well maybe I can show you what i did becuase my ram sits in a dead spot as far as airflow goes.....

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a72/JEDI_Yoda/005a.jpg

notice the zalman bracket and attached to a zalman slim fan in order to have enough room for the fan to be effective with the side panel on!!

 

[Balthazar]

Wouldnt work for me, I have a waterblock on my CPU and nothing but the side panel around to mount a fan to.

 

[mdkinsal]

Jedi,

Where did you get that bracket from that mounts off the drive bay?

 

[Balthazar]

Oh and clarification, by wouldnt work I mean the hose for the waterblock would get in the way if I (assuming you can do this) mount the bracket to a PCI slot, and the ATX power cable (they put a nice steel tube around the wirse, I love it, I have long said wire should not be flexible, its a stupid idea and I will have not of it!....ugh) would get in the way of being mounted to the drive bay.

 

[Corporate Thug]

LOL, block costs more than the ram

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Interesting. I never paid much attention to RAM cooling, and only recently started monitoring temperatures off the OCZ heat-spreaders with a tape-on thermal sensor.

Without more accurate information, I've determined that sensors taped to heat-sinks (as close as possible to the source of the heat) lag below the mobo and CPU temperatures reported from the built-in sensors by software.

I've only pushed my VDIMM -- within the OCZ warranty limit -- to 2.85V. The memory modules seem to compete with the GPU on the graphics card as one of the hotter items "under the hood," and with the mods I've made to my system, the temperatures exceed the load value of my over-clocked Prescott. At load and room-ambient of 70F, my CPU temperature is 100F while my memory heat-spreader shows 104F.

As to other observations on this sophisticated and nice-looking product, I guess there's still an issue of "bang-for-the-buck" and performance-to-price ratio.

 

[Balthazar]

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
LOL, block costs more than the ram

I wish.

That $50 waterblock will cool $200 worth of ram.

I supposed thats true if you bought a 128MB stick of the cheapest stuff you coul dfind, then yeah, pretty bad deal.

But I tend to think that most people who watercool in the first place have pretty ample systems to begin with, I mean the Exos 2 alone costs $350, and doesn't even come with a waterblock! $50 for a waterblock for my ram is well worth it if you consider that a) I couldn't get half my components OC'ed to the level they are now without water cooling and b) if I COULD with air cooling only it would be a SAUNA in my case.

I am not kidding when I say my PC keeps my room warm, even when its 40f outside.

 

[QueBert]

looks nice, but I run dual channel, and this only cools 2 adjacent sticks. Which means I'd need 2 of them, I think that would waste a lot of the pump power for cooling the CPU and GPU. Would be sweet if I ran 2 sticks next to each other though

 

[Balthazar]

I run dual channel too, but on my board the two sticks are right next to each other.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Balthazar

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
LOL, block costs more than the ram

I wish.

That $50 waterblock will cool $200 worth of ram.

I supposed thats true if you bought a 128MB stick of the cheapest stuff you coul dfind, then yeah, pretty bad deal.

But I tend to think that most people who watercool in the first place have pretty ample systems to begin with, I mean the Exos 2 alone costs $350, and doesn't even come with a waterblock! $50 for a waterblock for my ram is well worth it if you consider that a) I couldn't get half my components OC'ed to the level they are now without water cooling and b) if I COULD with air cooling only it would be a SAUNA in my case.

I am not kidding when I say my PC keeps my room warm, even when its 40f outside.

i just looked at it more closely. one block cools two sticks right?

 

[Balthazar]

Yeah, as long as they are side by side.

$50 per stick wouldn't be worth it though, then again, the way I leak money....

 

[Elcs]

Looks great, probably does little for overclocking but would definately allow for those massive voltages to be used more safely.

 

[Balthazar]

Yeah, even if I dont get much of an OC out of it (it certainly can't HURT though) running what I'm running at a lower temp is great, but even better is taking as much heat as possible OUT of the case. If thats all it did I'd still be happy. I guess we will see, mine should ship today.

 

[anandtechrocks]

My OCZ VX 4000 would definately benefit from this (I don't have water cooling though). I think you will get more OC out of your ram. I had an old AMD fan cooling my ram and when I replaced it with a 56 CFM fan I went from like 148 MHz to 155 MHz.