Watercooling Memory

tintin82 · 18 Aug 2012 at 14:27

Worth it?

The XSPC cooler looks neat.

I have the Samsung Green 8GB heavily overclocked running at 1.6v. 1866mhz
(cant seem to get 2133mhz unless i increase timings which i dont want to do)

Could i expect to push them further under water?

Danm54 · 18 Aug 2012 at 14:50

Dont know if you could push further, dont think it's really worth it but it's damn cool :cool:

mattup · 18 Aug 2012 at 14:59

I think that it would just add a restiction to you WC loop.

Do you have your MB in the loop?

Matt

Toothy1911 · 18 Aug 2012 at 15:05

Not really worth it if you have reasonable case air flow. If you're running it super silent with minimal airflow or even passive. Then you'd benefit from it. But most people just do it for looks.

pgi947 · 18 Aug 2012 at 15:15

Cosmetics really, some memory may gain a limited benefit from it if you're running silly voltages through it, if you're concerned then grab some of those arctic cooling memory heatsinks

I may be cooling my memory soon, but purely for cosmetics, will be using the XSPC universal ram sinks with an EK dominator plexi block on my kingston hyperX

OLDPHART · 18 Aug 2012 at 15:48

Just adds extra heat, as long as your case airflow is all right should be no problems.

Akagi · 27 Aug 2012 at 11:46

Watercool everything... Even the hard drives... And you have an epic looking PC... Apart from the cosmetics, i'm not really sure if it makes a difference.

GoogalyMoogaly · 27 Aug 2012 at 12:20

I know this isn't really the point of the thread, but is overclocking 1600MHz ram to 1866MHz really considered heavily overclocking?
Also, 1.6v? mines running at 1.35v @ 1866MHz, did I really get that lucky, cuz usually I don't do well in Silicone lotteries?

twist3d0n3 · 27 Aug 2012 at 12:23

it's completely pointless, but it looks nice.

pgi947 · 27 Aug 2012 at 13:00

Heavy overclocking on memory is more when you push high voltages through it rather than notching up speed under the same voltage. With high voltages comes the need for better cooling, though I suspect those that are pushing voltages that high are seasoned overclockers.

It does look pretty though especially on x79