Before you panic about your CPU temp, read this....

[NooNoo]

You need heat spreaders (not quite heatsinks...)

[Ferrit]

As NooNoo said you can use heat spreaders and they also make water cooling and aircooling with fans

[Matridom]

Golly batman! talk about a thread resurection!

[Trainshed Terry]

As NooNoo said you can use heat spreaders and they also make water cooling and aircooling with fans

Each of the memory sticks do have a red heat spreader fitted, but I feel that they are not as efficient as they should be.

Do you have any recommendation that would improve there cooling

[NooNoo]

blow air over the spreaders...

[Trainshed Terry]

Golly batman! talk about a thread resurection!

You must agree with me that it is a part of the PC that is over looked.

[Trainshed Terry]

blow air over the spreaders...

It was all well and good saying blow air aver them but it is getting to find away of blowing air over them.................................. and I do know what the answer is going to be is by fan.

I currently have the following fans installed

2x 120mm one at the front and the other at the rear of the case.

Arctic Cooling freezer 7 Pro is my CPU cooler .

System extractor fan mounted below graphics card to help expel the heat from the graphics card.

and two 60mm that came fitted to the case which can have the speed altered.

I have purchased two Thermalight HR-07 heat spreaders.
Link to product. http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main_product_hr07.htm to which I am still debating weather to install them as the space is at a limited where the memory sticks are. as the main power leads look as if they could get in the way.

Sensible replies PLEASE.

[Trainshed Terry]

Any body out there

[Ferrit]

Yes here is a link to water cooling for memory modules
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=368
And here is a link to air cooling
http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l3/g40/...ml?id=UdsxVvHQ

[NooNoo]

ummm you kinda shut down the conversation. We have no idea how much room you have in the case or where the fans are situated etc. ONly you can decide what is best.

[Trainshed Terry]

Yes here is a link to water cooling for memory modules
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=368
And here is a link to air cooling
http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l3/g40/...ml?id=UdsxVvHQ

Thank you ferrit very useful links.

How do you cool the memory modules in your PC NooNoo ?! as I trying to get some inspiration on how to go about it.

[NooNoo]

I don't. I have cases that allow good airflow and the ram is always in the airflow route. Just a matter of tying the cables out of the way carefully.

[Ferrit]

I use heat spreaders supplied by the Corsair mem sticks.
Other then that as you can see by my sig i water cool the system and it runs between 34 ideling and 39/40 under full load. System temperature is about 30C

[slgrieb]

Water cooling isn't scary. Pure water isn't very conductive; it is only the dissolved minerals in water that make it a good conductor. So, in any water cooling system, you should only use distilled water because tap water is going to plug up the system really fast regardless of any concerns about leaks. The normal additives used in water coolers as wetting agents and the like also tend to be electrically neutral.

Water cooling can do a super job of cooling your core components, but it gets progressively harder to cool your entire system. For your CPU, video card, and memory, water cooling is easy, but applying it to all the components (meaning every last capacitor, resistor,and MOSFET on the mainboard plus the hard drives, optical drives, power supply, etc. is another matter. Some water coolers are virtually noiseless, but some have a fair amount of pump and/or fan noise.

Personally, I think air cooling is still the most cost effective solution.

[Platypus]

Also, keep in mind that passive heatsinks like heat spreaders are supposed to get warm. The heat is passing from the memory chips into the spreaders to be dissipated by heating the surrounding air. If the running temperature of the memory is high, maybe due to cramped motherboard layout or overclocking, then you could devote specific cooling to it as has been suggested. But if you do something like arranging a fan to direct airflow onto the memory, you will be moving the heat more efficiently, the memory will run cooler, but the heat will still have to be removed from the casing.

In fact cooling generally is only as effective as its weakest link, and if you move heat away from one component only, into the air inside the case, other components will actually get slightly hotter...

Unless you have an obvious hotspot, like overclocked memory, usually the best return will come from ensuring the system has optimum flow through from intakes low in the case to exhaust towards the top (as heat rises) through PSU and any other exhaust fans. The Abit OTES system, for example, has this aim. Overall, improving the removal of heat from the case will reduce the operating temperature of all components.