Got two for cheap off Facebook marketplace new in box, and I thinks actually looks kind of tough with the silver cover instead of the red one here. Also, I put a noctua 3 pin low noise adapter on it. Planning on getting an NF A6 60mm from them soon to swap the old ones. My phanteks case has questionable ram cooling so this helps a bit for sure. I’ve noticed 5-10c drop even with the low noise adapter.
Also ignore the RGB puke mode, need to reapply the RGB in the bios software for the cooler and would need armory crate for the gpu, considering passing on that lol.
Figured this will set me up for when I get less of a normie kit and in the meantime I can push my B die a bit more.
These were made for DDR3 but they seem to have a possible use case again for those that actually would need it with DDR5.
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you rly need to cool your rams on an atx build oookay
my ram in mini itx doesnt need that lols
its a fan
It’s mostly ineffective and adds not much to your oc headroom. I’ve had better luck with just standing a 120mm fan on top of my gpu when I was pushing temps.
Then I regained my sanity and stopped trying to overclock ram.
I have this one, it keeps my 4 RAM sticks cooler by about 8 to 9 degrees. But it hides my trident z’s Neo lights. So, if you have non rgb RAM or if you want to hide your RGB RAM, go for it. Adjust speed in BIOS and it is cool and quiet.
I recently brought one of the cheap ones from Amazon, I wanted the corsair dominator fan but it seems to be non existant and very expensive for pre owned stuff when it does pop up.
I originally 3d printed a fan bracket which looked and worked amazing, however it has since gotten too warm and the shape has warped.
If it does the job, then keep it going, the 3d printed fan allowed me to have my ram overclocked and stay under 55c at all times with gaming, using some stupidly hot G skills neo trident ram.
If it works, it works!
It’s a 40 or 60mm fan, and the whine of those drive me crazy.
Personally I printed up from laminar flow plates to get my upper intake fan air to be more directional: Not as effective as a fan directly on them, but enough to keep my 3800cl14 ram running with a trfc of 250 in gaming conditions (I have a 7900 xtx w/ 550w bios, so there’s a fair bit of heat in the case. I can get the trfc a lot lower but I have to run all the fans higher to offset my GPU heat)