Watercooling RAM

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Thinking of doing this with my next rebuild.

Is there any tangible benefit, or is it purely for looks?

I'm probably going to do it for the latter (my system isn't even latest gen, only 4790k/980), but if I can gain some sort of performance benefit out of it that would be great.

Experiences?
 
Probably the most pointless thing you could water cool, you'll gain zero benefits and just add a restriction to the loop. Ram since ddr3 just doesn't get hot enough to require active air cooling let alone water cooling.

So unless you're building a system purely for aesthetics its just not worth the risk of compromising the rest of the loop.
 
Okay, so pretty much £70 to add some shininess to the system for zero benefit. I was going to re-case my system and it seemed a fun thing to throw in, but it's quite a bit of money for no return.

Perhaps I'll invest in some better radiator or fans which will give a tangible benefit with the money involved.

Thanks
 
FL630 said:
Okay, so pretty much £70 to add some shininess to the system for zero benefit. I was going to re-case my system and it seemed a fun thing to throw in, but it's quite a bit of money for no return.

Perhaps I'll invest in some better radiator or fans which will give a tangible benefit with the money involved.

Thanks
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Yea, take that 70 odd quid and put to better use elsewhere. Rgb fans or uv lighting if you wanna make it all 'pretty'
 
darket said:
Probably the most pointless thing you could water cool, you'll gain zero benefits and just add a restriction to the loop. Ram since ddr3 just doesn't get hot enough to require active air cooling let alone water cooling.

So unless you're building a system purely for aesthetics its just not worth the risk of compromising the rest of the loop.
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Bang on comment here.

Looks nice, but if your case air flow is good anyway will have zero benefit.
 
Okay, that's the idea out of the window.

I'm just about to press order on my new Corsair 570X, a new 360mm rad, splitting the reservoir and pump up and a load of tube to make a really neat looking case.

Been looking forward to this for ages.
 
I know you have ruled it out now but just to show how pointless it is my Samsung Greens are just naked chips and are overclocked and overvolted. They have no direct cooling on them, just the case airflow and are barely warm to the touch. All water cooling ram achieves is adding restriction to the loop and a big hole in your wallet that you could have spent on something worthwhile.
 
Considering how elaborate some RAM cooling is its quite interesting to hear how little heat it produces. I'm using HyperX Savage (or Fury, can't remember) DDR3. Unfortunately it's red, and my build is black and blue. Perhaps I'll just plastidip them if heat is no concern.
 
It's just bling in most cases. personally I thinky my naked ram with it's black pcb looks better than all these fancy heatspreaders. Even 8packs ram kits only run at 1.2v-1.45v from the slowest to fastest DDR4 kits which is less than the 1.5v mine ar running so surely they should be even cooler than mine?
 
darket said:
Probably the most pointless thing you could water cool
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Ah the start of WC when you could cool everything, why? why not? was the answer.

Saying that you can still buy coolers to fit to a SSD these days :eek:
 
Glanza said:
Ah the start of WC when you could cool everything, why? why not? was the answer.

Saying that you can still buy coolers to fit to a SSD these days :eek:
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I'm lead to believe the intel PCIE cards do benefit from water cooling, or at least cooling of some sort.

I love the idea of cooling for coolings sake. I'd love to have the RAM and motherboard cooled, but I'm not yet made of money.
 
Semple said:
TBH i would much rather WC my HDD's than RAM.
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Watercooling RAM can actually be useful if you're overclocking it, however watercooling HDDs is one of those dumb ideas that seemed good in the early days of water cooling but ended up just being dumb. It generally results in adding big restriction to your water loop while at the same time blocking off lots of airflow in the front of your case (plus killing any chance to put a rad in the front) that results in less air making it to the roof rad. Oh and it's generally worse than air cooling the drives lol.
 
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