Review of CoolerMaster RAM Chip Cooler

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CoolerMaster Copper & Aluminium RAM Chip Cooler

CoolerMaster is well known for their range of premium
aluminium cases as well as CPU coolers. They produce other
products as well, including memory heatsinks, CPU fan ducts,
case quietening kits, rounded cables and thermal paste, to
name a few. We were fortunate to receive two different
memory chip cooler kits from CoolerMaster for review, one
being the CRC-U01 (copper) and ARC-U01 (aluminium) memory
heatsinks.

Quote: "Perfect for memory cooling, the ramsinks are a nice
fit for the memory chips on your standard memory modules, so
long as they're the TSOP packaged memory and not BGA.
Granted, cooling your memory has about the same effect on
overclocking as sticking a heatsink on your forehead and
claiming it helps overclocking your brain better, but cooler
is better. If the ramsinks helps you run your memory a few
degrees cooler, it's worth it. Cool electronics = good. Hot
electronics = bad."

URL: http://www.8ballshardware.com/articles/cmramsinks/page1.cfm

[IronSerif]

Lotsa companies are starting to manufacture and market different types of ram sinks. It's amazing how many have poped up with the past year

[Ioman]

I always thought RAM coolers were a scam. What do you guys think? Do they really help?

I have some sitting in my computer hardware junk box I got for free but never tried out.

[IronSerif]

Heh...I thought so too. I got mine "primarily" for looks (but dont tell anyone..lol)
They usually lower the temps by about ~3 degrees..give or take. But nothing to really "wow" yourself over, ya know?

[ruri]

IMHO, RAM heat-sinks are the equivalent of fat exhausts of riced up car - they may give you an extra 2HP, but you're better off spending that money on something else, like, oh, more RAM...

I'm pretty sure a computer with 768MB memory @ 333Mhz will perform better than one with 512MB memory @ 366Mhz if you are a power user (rendering video, burning DVD, D/L Divx & listening to MP3...)

Using your HD as page-files 'cause you don't have enough memory will kill performance really quickly, and god knows software nowadays sucked up memory like crazy.

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Using your HD as page-files 'cause you don't have enough memory will kill performance really quickly, and god knows software nowadays sucked up memory like crazy.

So will setting your page file settings too low so that when you do run out things don't come to a grinding hault.