Watercooling ram

[Chaoz-Theory]

Hey is there a point to watercooling ram, i think i saw LTT do a segment about this and said that it was pointless, cant exactly remember but yea, is it really worth? 

[Lord Nicoll]

5 minutes ago, Chaoz-Theory said:

Hey is there a point to watercooling ram, i think i saw LTT do a segment about this and said that it was pointless, cant exactly remember but yea, is it really worth? 

Pointless? Not always, when overclocking RAM some kinds are very temperature sensitive, and in some small cases might get hot, otherwise it's mostly for looks. For the normal person it's basically not needed other than looks. 
edit: In some even smaller use cases, it can be used to keep RAM warm, when using sub zero cooling some RAM also doesn't like being too cold. 

[Imbellis]

Worth it - as in an investment for lowering temperatures? Totally not.

Sure, it may reduce temps, but almost nobody runs into the problem of too-hot RAM.

[Chaoz-Theory]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

Pointless? Not always, when overclocking RAM some kinds are very temperature sensitive, and in some small cases might get hot, otherwise it's mostly for looks. For the normal person it's basically not needed other than looks. 

Ahh ok, i just saw a build with watercooled ram and just wondered

[R U CRAZY]

 These are the reasons for water cooling RAM:

1. Want to get that extra little fps by upping the RAM frequency, when you've already maxed out on everything else.

2. Want everything watercooled in your rig, no matter what.

3. Got tons of cash and want to just get rid of it all.

4. You are an overclocking enthusiast and/or want to break some kind of world record.

BTW, the LTT segement about it wasn't about it being pointless, but about a bad implementation of it, as a closed ecosystem. 

[Lord Nicoll]

1 minute ago, Chaoz-Theory said:

Ahh ok, i just saw a build with watercooled ram and just wondered

I used a semi chilled liquid to cool some Micron D9GTS DDR3 at 2.2v for about 2100MHz CL 6-6-6, in that case it was worth it, but for daily use on DDR4 not really. 

[Chaoz-Theory]

2 minutes ago, R U CRAZY said:

 These are the reasons for water cooling RAM:

1. Want to get that extra little fps by upping the RAM frequency, when you've already maxed out on everything else.

2. Want everything watercooled in your rig, no matter what.

3. Got tons of cash and want to just get rid of it all.

4. You are an overclocking enthusiast and/or want to break some kind of world record.

BTW, the LTT segement about it wasn't about it being pointless, but about a bad implementation of it, as a closed ecosystem. 

Thanks for the correction, yea it was a while back so i knew it was somethinf about watercooled ram but dont remember much about that

[Chaoz-Theory]

3 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

I used a semi chilled liquid to cool some Micron D9GTS DDR3 at 2.2v for about 2100MHz CL 6-6-6, in that case it was worth it, but for daily use on DDR4 not really. 

I see, fair enough. Isnt ram oc not very potential anyway? Like sure youll prob get an improvement from using say 1666mhz to 2000-3000mhz range sticks but aftet that its not really giving any noticable improvements. Maybe its dependant on what the task is? 

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Chaoz-Theory said:

I see, fair enough. Isnt ram oc not very potential anyway? Like sure youll prob get an improvement from using say 1666mhz to 2000-3000mhz range sticks but aftet that its not really giving any noticable improvements. Maybe its dependant on what the task is? 

Well I like competitive overclocking on HWBot, and some benchmarks gain a lot from RAM, and some archs gain more than other, we've seen that with Ryzen recently, but the same was true for FX as well. 

[Chaoz-Theory]

2 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Well I like competitive overclocking on HWBot, and some benchmarks gain a lot from RAM, and some archs gain more than other, we've seen that with Ryzen recently, but the same was true for FX as well. 

Oh thats pretty cool, im new to the oc stuff so just grabbing any info from anything i can find