Laptop heatsink on your ram??

[Fascinated Viewer]

Just a random thing I saw while I was looking at the K5-pro thermal paste (for vrams..etc)
This just looks insane...

 

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Heh, OCZ Reaper DDR2-1066. Very high end back in the day.

So it's definitely a thing you can do, although on normal RAM it's not necessary. (fastest DDR2 speed was 800MHZ, these were 1066 IIRC so they kinda needed that heatpipe)

[8tg]

This was a thing for a while, how big of a Heatsink can you put on your ram?

Thermaltake did a bunch of this

and you can still get a bunch of similar massive ram heatsinks on aliexpress

this was also a lot more common with super high end ecc ddr1 and ddr2 because the little chip in the center gets super hot

[Pickles von Brine]

The fun times with DDR2 ram. I had that exact OCZ ram for my system. 

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1 hour ago, Pickles von Brine said:

The fun times with DDR2 ram. I had that exact OCZ ram for my system. 

I'd be rocking 4 Reaper sticks but I don't have any boards which support above 800MHZ sadly. Next best thing, all 4 slots filled with OCZ Gold. 

2 hours ago, 8tg said:

This was a thing for a while, how big of a Heatsink can you put on your ram?

 

Thermaltake did a bunch of this

 

and you can still get a bunch of similar massive ram heatsinks on aliexpress

 

this was also a lot more common with super high end ecc ddr1 and ddr2 because the little chip in the center gets super hot

 

Classic memory there. Miss when designs were actually innovative, regardless of how ridiculous.

And as was mentioned, ECC mem is especially toasty. My workstation has 3 fans just to cool RAM slots. 

[Pickles von Brine]

1 minute ago, Mel0n. said:

I'd be rocking 4 Reaper sticks but I don't have any boards which support above 800MHZ sadly. Next best thing, all 4 slots filled with OCZ Gold. 

Classic memory there. Miss when designs were actually innovative, regardless of how ridiculous.

And as was mentioned, ECC mem is especially toasty. My workstation has 3 fans just to cool RAM slots. 

GA-EP45-UD3P will run things just fine. I had my ram running at 938Mhz with a 469 FSB

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1 minute ago, Pickles von Brine said:

GA-EP45-UD3P will run things just fine. 

1366 mhz DDR2? Damn, that's faster than the DDR3 in my workstation!

Ah a 775. Got a midrange Asus board but I'm 99% sure its chipset isn't going to support, although it is Core 2 Quad era so perhaps it will

Also have a 775 PC limited to Pentium 4, it's limited to 666mhz RAM with terrible timings. 

And an early AM2 board from Gigabyte, sans-AM2+ support, and I don't believe the IMC on my Athlon 64 can do clocks that high

[Pickles von Brine]

1 minute ago, Mel0n. said:

1366 mhz DDR2? Damn, that's faster than the DDR3 in my workstation!

Ah a 775. Got a midrange Asus board but I'm 99% sure its chipset isn't going to support, although it is Core 2 Quad era so perhaps it will

Also have a 775 PC limited to Pentium 4, it's limited to 666mhz RAM with terrible timings. 

And an early AM2 board from Gigabyte, sans-AM2+ support, and I don't believe the IMC on my Athlon 64 can do clocks that high

Ram didn't do 1366. It was 469 X 2 = 938. I have had my ram up to 1000 before but it was unstable. The GA-EP45-UD3P is rather legendary for its FSB overclocks. 

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1 minute ago, Pickles von Brine said:

Ram didn't do 1366. It was 469 X 2 = 938. I have had my ram up to 1000 before but it was unstable. The GA-EP45-UD3P is rather legendary for its FSB overclocks. 

Ahh, just saw "Natively support to dual channel DDR2 1366+*" on the product page...