A Few Hardware Bits

Zygo writes "Most people seemed to like the hardware bites so here's another edition: A small HD @ GideonTech, the VapoChill PE @ [H]ard|OCP, a big GPU cooler @ OCAddiction, PSU Relay Timer guide @ Virtual-Hideout, a water cooling kit on OverClocker Café, Heat spreaders on OCIA , and to end a PSU at Exteme Overclocking"

Ram coolers?

[Anonymous Coward]

WTF? That thing only reduced the tempreture by half a centigrade!

Re:Ram coolers?

[hitzroth]

I'd suspect that a heat spreader has a greater surface area than a few RAM chips. Greater surface area + decent heat conduction = better cooling. Albeit, most memory probably doesn't run hot enough for this to matter, but it is the rough equvalent of running your CPU without a heatsink. You wouldn't do that with a modern CPU, would you?

Re:Count me out ...

[sawilson]

My simple way of dealing with case cooling is:

Vantec stealth 80x25 fans. They are cheap as sin,
and really quiet. Also, I don't pull air out of the
case at all, other than what the powersupply fans
do. I push air into the case, and mount filters in
front of all my fans. You can usually fit two fans
in the front of the case pulling air in, and wedge
a 1 dollar air conditioning filter in between the
front fascade and the front of the case. If I need
more cooling, I'll do a side or top fan with an
aluminum mesh screen and trimmed air conditioner
filter over the mesh blowing in as well. If all
the air is blowing into the case, and it's all
filtered, you have a lot less dust. You can get
60mm to 80mm fan adapter kits for your processors
and use the same vantec stealth fans to keep them
cool. Piggy back all this with a thermaltake
silent 360w, remove your rear fan that pulls air
out of the case, and you have very quiet system
that blows air out the back like a hair dryer.