Its common knowledge that when overclocking your computer components are under
stress and can soon turn into an oven, so people add fans to help remove this heat.
But how many times have you had a bsod (blue screen of death) because your ram has
become unstable? This could possibly be because of the higher FSB and something
going wrong like a read/write error or it could be because of our old enemy and
component killer heat.
To combat this Thermaltake have produced these nifty little ram sinks that don't just help look
sweet as well :D
So what do you get?
Well this for a start
In the pack you have two thin blue aluminium heat spreaders, two clips, two blue
anodised heat sinks and some thermal conductive double sided sticky tape (I know
making this takes you back to the old days of Blue Peter.....). The pack
allows for two combinations of heat spreading, either you use the two thin plates on
your ram sticks and attach the heat sinks to your graphics card like most people do or
you can make evil looking ram sticks; for some reason I wanted the evil looking
combination, so onto construction.
Cool ? Maybe ? Evil ... think so ;)
To make this worthwhile I decided it would be best to remove the identity stickers off
the stick of ram. This isn't as easy as I first thought it would be, but after some
perseverance the stickers were removed now onto the ram kit. This is where I found
out that this seemingly simple mod would dice with death over the threat of a
snapped DDR stick, so I warn you if you get these be CAREFUL. Too much force and
you're getting your credit card out again! But after some fiddling the spreaders were
attached and ready to be put to use, so in they went, but as in the photo its damn close
to not fitting, though she boots up fine and everything is perfect. Sadly I haven't got a
thermal camera but I am sure that they are doing the business, and they look good
which is slightly more important :)
Another angle
As I said and you can see these are only passive heat spreaders, Thermaltake to supply
active ram cooling solutions which can spread across four ram slots and is meant to
work alongside this kit, and would increase there performance tremendously.
All in all job well done Thermaltake, they look good and if what you say on the
packaging is true they work a treat too.
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