Memory water cooling. Yes or not really

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So thinking about getting a ram block but I’m questioning if it’s needed or not vs having a direct fan blowing air into stock heatspreaders.

Anyone has experience with this scenario ? Worth it and a bit change or not really.

Thinking about Iceman direct touch kit. Also thinking if it will be compatible with future CKD modules.
 
Only worth it in my experience and opinion if you are trying to get mega RAM overclocks - it doesn't seem to make huge odds as to the lifespan of modules where voltage largely irrespective of temperature seems to make the biggest difference to how long RAM lasts.

And is usually a pain in the rear if you ever do much maintenance or upgrading of the system.
 
If they're stable then I wouldn't really worry about it.

Ram blocks were needed for my intel kit. 8800 with 262K Trefi gave errors if they went over 45c.

Only have them on my AMD system as I need silly VDD to get them stable.

Also the ram blocks should be compatible with ckd, as they are essentially flat pieces of metal with a thermal pad. I think the z890 series need a wider water block however as the dimms are further apart.
 
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Not worth it i did it on 2 old-school machines x58 and x79 made zero difference and was a pain to tube and bleed the system as I did cpu,mobo, 3x gpus and 3x rads. Looked cool and that's about it
 
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If they're stable then I wouldn't really worry about it.

Ram blocks were needed for my intel kit. 8800 with 262K Trefi gave errors if they went over 45c.

Only have them on my AMD system as I need silly VDD to get them stable.

Also the ram blocks should be compatible with ckd, as they are essentially flat pieces of metal with a thermal pad. I think the z890 series need a wider water block however as the dimms are further apart.
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Yeah i'm more or less on the same train, since i need 1.65vdd to get 8200CL34 :D
But, fun fact, the temperatures of the ram will never touch 40c ... although its winter ... and i also have a P14Max blowing air on them :D

Since i'm re-building my test bench with new rads, i thought about it, but its still a big price ( 160 EUR ) ...
 
Any decent recent RAM have an overkill heatsink, unless very rare scenario/use is required. Active air cooling should be more than enough if the actual airflow in your case doesn’t achieve what you want/need.
I think the only benefit of I’ll be aesthetics, but the drawbacks of tubing something that isn’t as secured on the motherboard as other commonly watercooled components (CPU and GPU) would put me off.
But many moons ago, Chipset cooling was a thing too. It all comes down to costs and the extra time every time some change in hardware is needed or simply maintenance.
 
As long as you can get sufficient airflow over your RAM it's not really worth it. An airguide to scoop up some case airflow would be more than enough for most, and if it's not securing a fan isn't a major burden.

Water cooling the memory only really makes sense for systems where everything is water cooled and there's limited potential for airflow.
 
If you're clocking to bojangles out of it for benching and chasing records then DDR5 does benefit from watercooling. In every other scenario then there's no point. Argubaly even for aesthetic reasons there's no point because I've yet to see RAM watercooling look any good.
 
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Yeah i'm more or less on the same train, since i need 1.65vdd to get 8200CL34 :D
But, fun fact, the temperatures of the ram will never touch 40c ... although its winter ... and i also have a P14Max blowing air on them :D

Since i'm re-building my test bench with new rads, i thought about it, but its still a big price ( 160 EUR ) ...
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160 is too much IMO can get it much cheaper.

Look at the Freezemod ram sinks. They have screw holes that line up with the iceman (non-direct touch) kits.
Cost me around £12 for each dim.

Iceman non-direct was about £30 from China including coupons so around £55 total.

I used thermal putty instead of pads and according to HWInfo temps are only 2-4c over ambient so always stays under 35-40c.
 
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It's largely going to be an aesthetics or super OC thing if you're into that.

If you're on X3D they don't really care much about ram speeds, you're spending money for the sake of it.

Assuming you're chasing records, surely you'll be going the LN2 route?
 
aesthetically pleasing - perhaps.
Perfomance wise - nada

Not needed even if you do overclock the memory. I personally find them a gimmick. Used them once back when Aquacomputer first released the ram blocks/hdd blocks because it 'looked cool'
 
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