Watercooling Corsair Dominator Platinum?

[grebgonebad]

Hi all!

Does anyone know of a way to watercool Corsair Dominator Platinum memory without having to remove the stock heatsink? I'm new to watercooling and want to watercool my RAM but so far all I can see are custom kits where you have to replace the stock heatsinks for custom ones that have threaded holes in used for attaching the waterblock. =/ Is there a way of attaching a waterblock to the RAM sockets instead?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Darkbreeze]

No, if you want to water cool the RAM, you need to use the necessary adapters. It's no different than watercooling a cpu. You can't use an air cooled heatsink with a liquid cpu cooler and you can't do it with RAM either. There could not be any kind of efficient heat transfer that way anyhow.

Well, I guess you could, if you had a custom cnc machine and fabbed something up, but otherwise, it's unlikely and probably even unwise.

 

[grebgonebad]

Thanks for your reply darkbreeze!

Hmm, this is what I was afraid of. Unfortunately unless I can find a compatible waterblock for my motherboard choice (I have a thread dedicated to this linked below if you care to take a look?) I probably won't bother watercooling the memory. However if I find a compatible Mobo waterblock, I will definitely look into memory blocks.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2339965/asus-x99-deluxe-watercooling.html

 

[Darkbreeze]

What are you doing that you need to overclock the memory? If it's just to do it, that's cool, but it's really not a necessity. The overclocked performance of memory isn't much of an advantage in computing whether gaming or using applications. The current stock speeds of most RAM is more than sufficient, especially if the GPU card is already an upper tiered unit and the cpu is overclocked or at least fairly new-ish. The only thing overclocked RAM is really good for is benchmarking, in real world use it is patently pointless. Games don't really show any improvement, yet, with speeds faster than their possible profiles and neither do other applications.

And when I say "overclock", I mean beyond the intended profile. If you have a stick of 2133mhz you are using and the motherboard says it supports 2133(OC), you don't need it to be watercooled in order to use it at that speed so long as you have good case cooling. If you can orient your cpu cooler to increase the flow of air over the RAM to any degree, so much the better, or if you have a water cooled cpu, just make sure you have very good case cooling setup in a negative pressure configuration for maximum performance.

 

[grebgonebad]

I don't really intend on Overclocking the memory per se, I plan on buying a kit rated at 3000mhz (OC) which is supported by my mobo choice. I really only want to watercool for looks more than anything, as daft as it seems. =P

 

[Darkbreeze]

I understand. What is your CPU and Motherboard model numbers? They may not even support those speeds. Just depends on what you've got.

 

[grebgonebad]

I understand. What is your CPU and Motherboard model numbers? They may not even support those speeds. Just depends on what you've got.

I will be buying the Asus Rampage V Extreme X99 coupled with an Intel Core i7-5960x. Thanks for mentioning this by the way, I've just noticed the 5960x can only supports speeds up to 2133mhz. XD

 

[Darkbreeze]

Actually, that board supports modules up to 3300mhz DDR4. 2133mhz is just what it will support without any chance of having to make changes in the BIOS, and actually you'll probably want to setup it's XMP profile there anyway, so it's not a big deal if you want to go with faster RAM. I probably wouldn't go past 2133mhz if you're going to use more than two modules though.

 

[grebgonebad]

Actually, that board supports modules up to 3300mhz DDR4. 2133mhz is just what it will support without any chance of having to make changes in the BIOS, and actually you'll probably want to setup it's XMP profile there anyway, so it's not a big deal if you want to go with faster RAM. I probably wouldn't go past 2133mhz if you're going to use more than two modules though.

I know the board can support those speeds, but the 5960x cannot. =) It can only support speeds of up to 2133mhz unfortunately. =(

 

[Darkbreeze]

Wrong. CPU support, in almost all cases, is dependent on the motherboard. If you look at almost every CPU listed on Intel's website, very, very few of them show support for any memory over 1600 or 1866mhz. But they most certainly work fine with it. Seems there may be a few bugs to work out in the motherboard firmware however as many of the Haswell-E CPUs struggled with stability when using speeds over 2666mhz so your planned speed is probably fine, at least for the time being.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

I normally wouldn't suggest a solution like this because I like mods that perform a function, but if its purely for aesthetics, why not just mod some suitable fittings and tubing to the stock Hs on the ram and run the tubing out of sight? Itll give the appearance of it being watercooled done right, and you dont have the restriction issues of ram/mobo blocks, I'd check out the wc gallery and get some ideas of how it should look before you start though, if you can fake it well enough noone will ever know but us 🙂
Moto

 

[Darkbreeze]

I normally wouldn't suggest a solution like this because I like mods that perform a function, but if its purely for aesthetics, why not just mod some suitable fittings and tubing to the stock Hs on the ram and run the tubing out of sight? Itll give the appearance of it being watercooled done right, and you dont have the restriction issues of ram/mobo blocks, I'd check out the wc gallery and get some ideas of how it should look before you start though, if you can fake it well enough noone will ever know but us 🙂
Moto

See, now I like that.

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Glad to hear it 🙂 be careful obviously that nothing can come loose and possibly short anything out but done properly you should be able to pull the illusion off with flair 🙂
Moto

 

[Motopsychojdn]

Thank you for B.a. man and dont forget a build log or at least finished pics for us to drol at hehe 🙂
Moto