RAM Coolers

Alexrose1uk

Alexrose1uk

Alexrose1uk

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Hi Guys
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with DDR5 clip-on RAM coolers, the little ones you can clip on over your RAM sticks (that tend to cost around £15)?
My new GSkill RAM seems like it'll actually hit 6000C26 with decent timings, but needs a decent whack of voltage to do it, which has the temps a little on the toasty side when I throw a heavy stress test thier way (normal temperatures are much lower and absolutely fine). I'm not seeing any errors or instability so far during stress testing, but I'd feel more comfortable if the temps were lower, so I need airflow.

The AIO is mounted above the RAM, unfortunately the cabling is integrated and it'll be a headache to reverse the middle fan, more than seems worth it (I considered it until I realised the cabling was going to be headache), so figured one of these might be a neat alternative, especially as I've got the Artic AIO so both ram sticks are already getting a little airflow, but not enough.

Just to ensure health and longevity, I was considering grabbing one of the clip on RAM coolers, especially if they're not that loud and actually do a decent job, but I don't want to spend the money if they're a waste of time.
 
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I remember some corsair dominator GT ram coming with some coolers awhile back. Never used them and to this day never used them, As long as airflow is good in the case I wouldnt worry
 
I think I may have found the generic cooler Corsair used as the basis. I'm pushing moderate voltage and some decently tight timings, and it does seem to have knocked about 5-10 degrees off the RAM temps when I'm pushing a full scale stress test on them.

Should help keep them stable under normal use, given I'm trying to see if I can get away with 65535 tREFI along with other tighter timings, which hate higher temps on DDR5. Can't complain if it helps me run them faster than before for the £20 it cost, given the white one suits my design pretty well. :)
 
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They're quieter than the case fans lol I considered using a 12mm and zip ties, but it wouldn't have fit the aesthetic of the machine at all, even ignoring the risks of movement, catching the AIO, etc :)
I figured I'd avoid the jank if there was something that'd do the job well enough at a reasonable price.

At the moment TM5 Absolut is maxing out around 54.25c on the hottest DIMM (with a slightly higher room ambient temperature to boot) than when I tested my other config without the RAM cooler, and it was hitting 59.5 without, so realistically, I've dropped around 5-7 degrees once you factor in ambient.

When its not running at max welly, its drowned out completely by the case fans, and is only barely noticeable at full pelt, over the case fans also going ham.

I can handle that.

In all honestly, I was expecting them to be much louder than they are; maybe I got relatively lucky!
 
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Are you doing this for the pleasure of the hobby or because you want to eke out as much free performance as possible?

I ask because X3D chips really don't give that much of a toss about that sort of thing, seems like a lot of needless fiddling for little to no benefit unless it's for the fun of it.
 
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Bit of both! Plus if anything falls outside the X3D Cache or needs brought in from memory streaming wise, lower latency never hurts, and that's usually beneficial for frame pacing and 1% / 0.1% lows :)
 
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I have the corsair one been running it for years, it does the job, has kept my OC'd RAM stable in all builds it has migrated to, can't hear it, it ramps up with other fans based on temps and is always drowned out, my Gigabyte board came with a bracket and riser for the motherboard screws to hold a 90mm fan over the DDR5, seems like a nice alternate solution.
 
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That 90mm fan is a nice idea, if I'd seen those available elsewhere, I'd have probably given that a try. However, I have to say, this one I've got has impressed me. 5-10 degree drop in temps at load, is quieter than the system fans (admittedly they're Artic Pros so not that quiet), and does the job (and as I say it seems to be the OEM design the Corsair is based on)
One of the fans is a little dodgy so I'm going to get it replaced, but its better than it has any right to be, and it doesn't block me seeing the LED post display on the top right of the board either. The only downside is it SLIGHTLY catches the AIO above the CPU, as the Arctic is a big boy in that regards, so its at a very slight angle to allow it to fit, because of all the stuff on this motherboard as well; but I'm also not having to screw anything into the board to make it works, it just sits using foam pads to minimise vibration around the RAM clips, using minor clamping force from the design of the bracket itself, its pretty neat.

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The fan thing gigabyte supply is called the DDR Wind Blade, looks like something that could quite easily be 3d printed. Fan might actually be smaller, I did not measure as I already had my solution, so it's still in the box.

Can go on any mobo screw point.

Shame they provide all this but RAM voltage can't go beyond 1.45v, pathetic, so I can't get too enthusiastic with the RAM :rolleyes:

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Gotcha, that actually looks like it might be quite similarly sized to the 40mms on my one, but with the option to go slightly bigger. I'd have considered it in white lol

Once I've got my one replaced I'll be quite happy though; the top fan on mine doesnt seem to run happily at full speed, you can tell its running slower than the first fan, but a quick swapout should resolve that quickly; and as its not screwed in, the biggest headache is the fan/argb connector haha
 
It is done in white for the AORUS ICE boards, your setup looks lovely though, that twin fan RAM cooler is perfect.

Some of your timings look a bit tighter than mine, I gave up playing when I couldn't up the voltage, but perhaps I should go off down the memory tweaking rat hole again....maybe not, its all lovely and stable, I really shouldn't touch it ........or should I, aaaargh :D

Maybe I should update the BIOS first Gigabyte might have fixed the DDR voltage issue, their response to my support tickets doesn't suggest they'd be able to fix themselves a sandwich though :rolleyes: :D

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It is done in white for the AORUS ICE boards, your setup looks lovely though, that twin fan RAM cooler is perfect.

Some of your timings look a bit tighter than mine, I gave up playing when I couldn't up the voltage, but perhaps I should go off down the memory tweaking rat hole again....maybe not, its all lovely and stable, I really shouldn't touch it ........or should I, aaaargh :D

Maybe I should update the BIOS first Gigabyte might have fixed the DDR voltage issue, their response to my support tickets doesn't suggest they'd be able to fix themselves a sandwich though :rolleyes: :D

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Thanks
Spent quite a while planning it, and then waiting for the Aorus Stealth Ice board to become available.

Looks like your RAM is doing really well too, you're on less voltage than me and running same CL at slightly higher clock, and a decently low lower latency. I'm not sure TRAS would make such a big difference so not quite sure why your ltency is so much lower than mine, albeit maybe a better IMC/dual CCD quirk?
Did you change anything latency wise on the board to get such a low latency read?

It's getting much higher read and writes, which I'd heard was a thing between the single and dual CCD chips too, so maybe thats all related to that; as your stats seem decently better despite our timings being fundamentally rather similar.
You're running the more expensive C26 kit, whereas I've tuned up the C28 kit, so I can't complain too much given the relative price difference just curious to see your latency so much lower at broadly comparable timings.
 
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Alexrose1uk said:
Did you change anything latency wise on the board to get such a low latency read?
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Yup there was a setting in the BIOS that tweaks it, don't recall what it is, I can look later but latency was a few ns better when it was set to legacy and there didn't appear to be any drawbacks.
 
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Yep think I found it a little while earlier (Core Tuning Config) - Gigabyte seems to default to Level 2, whilst Legacy/Level 1 seem slightly more performant to me, albeit Level 1 shows the same higher latency as Auto/Level 2.
I'm trying Legacy right now, and my Aida best latency reading dropped to 63.5, although its more typically 64, which is more in line considering you're running your memory at 6200 instead of 6000 :)
 
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Yes they do, it does not have to get that hot to become unstable on my DDR4 it was anything over 50C for issues when running 4 sticks, on DDR5 I have not been able to OC due to unfinished bios but some OCs are pumping up to 1.8v through it, If you watch some of the buildzoid OCs there is a general need when pushing DDR5. If you are not pushing there is probably no need but there is no downside to keeping silicon cool.
 
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