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Deadjasper

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Found these while surfing eBay. They're memory coolers for a Lenovo S30 Thninkstation. They snap onto the memory slots so require no additional HW beyond what's shown. Easy peazy to install. They do require a 5 pin fan header which the S30 has but I've never seen it on any other MB.

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lol theres lots of those out there. hit the google. and that's just pwm with a goofy proprietary header. just move it over to match up like a normal pwm fan its the same pin out from the looks of it. my hp fans are like those.

 
I think the Corsair Dominator Platinum modules still come with coolers. The last set I got did.
 
I remember those and H2O blocks for ddr2.
Ram, the cool stuff had colored pcbs before heat spreaders were a thing.
 
Whiles i've seem many of these, are they really neccessary, do ram go so hot that cooling is needed, I have 2 pieces 8GB, total 16GB DDR4 GSkill Trident Z RGB AMD edition.
 
Good to hear about it, my Ram is set on default, no gaming or overclocking, just simple browsing, download and watching movies.:p
 
i saw them yrs ago at the computer shows ..i just always mounted an extra 80 mm fan at my ram slots back then .. blowing back in the top front of my case .. all it did was add dust to my ram chips that i hadda blow out
now adays if ya have a decent CPU cooler ..... it'll add enough airflow to keep your ram cool ..provided you have the right case fans
 
Even easier, blow a 120mm fan at the memory.
It doesnt need to be near.
 
kms108 said:
Whiles i've seem many of these, are they really neccessary, do ram go so hot that cooling is needed, I have 2 pieces 8GB, total 16GB DDR4 GSkill Trident Z RGB AMD edition.
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Back in the days of DDR(1) when people were putting 3.5v or more into their Winbond BH5 modules, then yeah, you needed to cool those puppies. Today's modules run at much lower voltage and therefore much cooler so as others have posted, not needed at all, but then neither are heat spreaders on the modules.

These days both are nothing more than additional bling for the rig.
 
I'm surprised they didn't make things like this for FB-DIMMs--now those get HOT!
 
I don't have a single fan in my entire desktop, much less fans over my RAM, lol.
 
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