Best Memory Cooler

Carter54

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Hi I have Curcial Balistix tracer ram and I am getting Overheat issues on my NB and memory so I am looking to get an aftermarket cooler of the three below which one do you guys recommend?

Thermalright Passive Cooler:
http://www.svc.com/hr-07duol.html

Thermaltake Passive cooler:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835106098

OCZ Cooler:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835202003

Corsair Cooler:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835704001

any input is appreciated. I also ordered an Antec 900 case tonight 89$ on newegg to help with airflow.

Thanks Carter.
 
From what I collected a few weeks back when I was thinking about buying a memory cooler, the Corsair one is extremely easy to install and performs well, and the OCZ one performs the same as Corsair (maybe a bit better) but is slightly harder to install.

The Thermalright and Thermaltake ones are difficult to install, as I recall. Also something about the Thermalright/Thermaltake ones I remember reading is that they don't like heatspreaders (most memory come with 'em stock) so you gotta remove those for proper heat transfer.

If you just want to cool the memory some, you could ghetto-mod a couple small fans and mount them next to the memory. A lot of people do this as the memory doesn't really need anything complex to stay cool other than some air moving across them (which the OCZ/Corsair coolers are just basically a slab of metal or copper + some mini fans to keep air circulating).

I'd just get the OCZ or Corsair... OCZ one has some nice bling factor. :cool:
 
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