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Fan for Ram

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Anyone got any guides or tips for mounting a 120mm fan ontop of my ram? I am using Phasechange so gluing it to the side of my HSF does not work.
 
get a RAM cooler that uses a 60mm fan, then get a 60-80mm fan adapter and a 80-120mm fan adapter?

That's about all I can think of.
 
doesen't zalman have a some sort of fan holder "thing" that could be used for cooling ram
 
If you want to make your own however, it shouldn't be too hard. Cut some aluminum to fit over the memory chips and have some long fingers extend to the holes of the fan. Probably wouldn't look as smooth a something from the store but it'd save money if you have the tools.
 
Get some acrylic and some 3" 6-32 screws.

Cut the acrylic into any shape you like, paint it, light it, and do whatever you want to it to make it look pretty.

Drill holes in your acrylic plate so that they line up with the holes around your MOBO near the RAM sockets (I'm talking about where the mobo affixes it's self to the standoffs, those hoes)

Drill the 120mm hole into the acrylic so it's centered over the RAM... Mount the fan

Get some wing nuts and screw them up the 3" screw, up so they're tight against the acrylic. This should make the screws rigid and ready to be screwed into the mobo standoffs.

Mount the entire thing over the mobo with the 3" screws. Screw each screw into the motherboard standoff.

The standoffs being right below the holes still gives the board lots of security, but allows you to screw the piece of acrylic into it.
 
Arcygenical said:
Get some acrylic and some 3" 6-32 screws.

Cut the acrylic into any shape you like, paint it, light it, and do whatever you want to it to make it look pretty.

Drill holes in your acrylic plate so that they line up with the holes around your MOBO near the RAM sockets (I'm talking about where the mobo affixes it's self to the standoffs, those hoes)

Drill the 120mm hole into the acrylic so it's centered over the RAM... Mount the fan

Get some wing nuts and screw them up the 3" screw, up so they're tight against the acrylic. This should make the screws rigid and ready to be screwed into the mobo standoffs.

Mount the entire thing over the mobo with the 3" screws. Screw each screw into the motherboard standoff.

The standoffs being right below the holes still gives the board lots of security, but allows you to screw the piece of acrylic into it.
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Good idea, but I can improve on that idea.

Instead of using screws, use standoffs. You can get them in tons of lengths.
 
That was my first idea, just to stack lots of standoffs, but in the end I just couldn't clear the RAM enough, and I didn't want the fan on the OUTSIDE of the acrylic.
 
Personally, I think it would look better on the outside.

I gotta ask though, why a 120mm? Wouldn't an 80mm be wide enough to cover all of the slots?
 
Well I want the thing to run as slow as possible, so it is quiet. I assume that a 120 running a low speeds will cool as well as an 80 running low-mid speeds
 
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