My Untested Value Ram Cooling Guide - To extract some Mhz

Well it seems from you your posts that i have to rethink on this.

Need some advice from you all
- What can be done to hold the copper plate on the Ram
- How thick should the copper plate be to provide effective cooling and
avoid accidents by bending.
Well even if i think of the above things and manage to implement it.
will i be able to extract a few more Mhzfrom the ram as thats the main
aim of my experiment.
 
Just by cooling the ram,gains will be small and ddr doesnt heat up much if voltages are under 3v(on most boards).DDR 400 runs at 2.6v default so anything upto 2.9v is pretty safe if u have good case flow.
U must use a thin plate and not a thick one,use a ram sink on a video card as a reference.
And te best way is superglue+artic silver mix.
 
As I mentioned somewhere here recently, there are folks who believe
HeatSpreaders == HeatTrappers

Check this one out:

Do heatspreaders actually help with Gskill?
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=60164

The alternative is to use RAM sinks as here:

http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/memory/ramsink.htm

Notice that the grooves are oriented parallel to the length of the sticks - tells you how you should orient the fan ! I may, however, prefer thinner fins as opposed to thicker ones. The reason being that the predominant objective here is to increase the overall area of heat dissipation by conductive (inside the fin) and convective (at the fin-ambient interface) heat transfers at steady state conditions, and not prolly to manipulate thermal inertia during transients. Really depends upon the fin geometry and material characteristics, but thinner fins will prevent larger "wakes" (like the ones you see at the downstream end of an aircraft wing) and prolly ensure smooth flow of air all the way to the other end of the stick. A rigorous analysis will have to take into account flow orientation, laminar/turbulent nature of the flow, material characteristcs etc.

just something more for you to chew :)
 
TBH, I'm personally not particularly keen on retro-fitting the sticks with either the heat-spreaders or the RAM sinks unless, of course, they come along with those from the manufacturer. But that's just me and isn't meant to be discouraging at all if you're keen on experimenting with that mod.

Currently, I've a fan + duct on the side-panel which fits the bill fairly well since I'm hardly pumping in extra volts into my sticks.
 
@ JediMaster
No you dont discourage me at all
Infact many people feel that the heatsink idea might or might not be helpful

All i wanted was to experiment.
And sometimes expirements might succede or fails
its all the part of the game
 
Quad Master said:
All i wanted was to experiment.
And sometimes expirements might succede or fails
its all the part of the game
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Great Attitude, Quad ! If/when you start on this venture, keep us posted with a running commentary :) .
 
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