Best i7 memory cooler?

I believe it will be this one

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I'm pretty torn between buying it (mips make it, costs about £40) and trying to plagiarise the design with a milling machine.
 
It takes all six sticks MI, otherwise I wouldn't be interested :) Isn't she beautiful...

I'm off to look for the corsair H30. Not as keen on it, it costs £20 more and doesn't let you remove the barbs. Only have it on faith that there's no aluminium involved too, can't find much information about it.
 
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Nah, not for me. I don't trust Corsair with something that can lead to condensation if they got it a bit wrong. The appeal to the waterblock is keeping it cool even when there is very little airflow, the tec unit does the same thing with added drawbacks (power use and condensation, mainly).

The cost of the tec block is pretty close to the cost of a chiller, I'd far rather pump chilled water through the ram and everything else than just chill the ram.
 
Yeah, same reasoning here. Of course, mips ram block without cooling the mosfets is just silly, so ud5 blocks too. Suddenly looking at £120 which I need to find. Or in your case, time to start machining blocks for a matx board, which is probably quite difficult. Might be my solution too actually.
 
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If i could lay my hands on a mill i would make my own but i no longer own one so i cant :(

Used to have a Myford Super 7 with mill but alas tis gone :(
 
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How would you go about it? I'm thinking of cutting copper sheet to match the base of the heatsink array, milling a simple slot (maybe a few) in the copper and a more interesting shape in some 20mm acetal. Clamp them together with an O ring inbetween. Main issue is not knowing how to cut curves on a manual mill (don't suppose you know how to?). Or attempt to solder/braze/glue the pieces together, which means I don't need to learn anything about O rings.

I have a suspicion that a waterblock can be pretty crap and still cool better than a heatsink.
 
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Indeed curves are difficult, i would try and use a rotary table on the lathe bed and see if i could make some curves although it might bite and ruin the piece but i can't quite think of another way :(
 
Ha some nice stuff in here! Alas I'm only looking for an air cooler though, I'll probably get the Zalman as it's only £11 :)
 
is there really much point in ram cooling DDR3? mine doesn't get hot at all; with a temp probe from my scythe master ace, it's hitting 24oC in a 22oC ambient :confused:
 
If I place a probe in the middle of mine, when running Linx it gets to about 35-40C and for £12 I may as well :)
 
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