Anyone ever seen RAM with heatpipes and radiators before?

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Rove Oct 20, 2014 @ 10:05am

Seriously has anyone? And how much difference would some sort of extreme RAM cooling like that make to overclocking? Think you could run 2V through DDR3 like it was DDR2 and make it beat the crap out of DDR4 except for efficiency?

For that matter what's the maximum voltage & clock anyone has put through DDR3 steady and stable for long-term use with standard aluminum heatsinks?

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Air Oct 20, 2014 @ 10:24am

Heatpipes? Yes.
Radiators? No.

Charlie Oct 20, 2014 @ 10:25am

I've seen RAM with watercooling blocks before, as for heatpipes I guess you could say the Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM has heatpipes at the top.
Watercooled RAM http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/xoxide/koolance-ram-30-v06-3.jpg

I have seen people mod their PC to have heatpipes on their RAM for overclocking
http://www.thinkcomputers.org/reviews/xilence_ram_cooler/15.jpg

Rove Oct 20, 2014 @ 10:26am

Show me this RAM with heatpipes?
I don't just mean spikes on a tower cooler unless they are actually real heatpipes containing evaporative coolant that evaporates and recondenses to keep the RAM cool.

TeKraken Oct 20, 2014 @ 10:41am

I'm fairly certain that the 6 or 8mm copper pipes coming from the ram are heatpipes.

Originally posted by Rove:
Show me this RAM with heatpipes?
I don't just mean spikes on a tower cooler unless they are actually real heatpipes containing evaporative coolant that evaporates and recondenses to keep the RAM cool.