Official ExtremeHW DDR5 Memory Overclocking Thread - Share Your Successes and Failures Here!

[neurotix]

15 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Finally received the IceMan Cooler Direct Touch Memory Cooler.  Got a nice gain in RAM cooling on the Apex Encore. The IceMan direct touch RAM block seems to give about the same delta as the Supercool does. These suckers are super heavy. Heavier than the Supercool because the backplate is thicker. The black bezel on top that covers the screws is magnetized and also made of metal. If there is anything that I wish would be different is the use of Philips head screws to attach the block to the jackets. They are a bit soft. Stainless steel Allen or Torx would have been better.

Comparing it to the Byski memory water cooling kit...

And, temps are still nice with my 8600 profile even with the elevated voltage. IceMan Cooling did really great with the memory cooling kit. The water in the cooling system for the Apex is about 5°C colder than the water in the Apex Encore loop. (The Apex has a 5-gallon reservoir and the radiator is near an open window, and the radiator for the Encore is in a corner of the office.) And, the difference in temperature reflects that precisely. That being the case, I call it a draw... "Even Steven" comparing it to the Supercool memory cooling kit.

 

I rarely see people water cooling memory. Compared to you, my system is pleb, lol.

 

Looks absolutely fantastic and the performance is crazy, I'd love to see your AIDA64 results with your RAM clocked that high.

[Mr. Fox]

2 hours ago, neurotix said:

I rarely see people water cooling memory. Compared to you, my system is pleb, lol.

 

Looks absolutely fantastic and the performance is crazy, I'd love to see your AIDA64 results with your RAM clocked that high.

I actually showed it in a previous screenshot, but I just ran it on both systems at 8600. Here are the screenshots, with all of the timings and voltage values.

 

Apex Encore

Apex

[Mr. Fox]

3 hours ago, acoustic said:

I wasn’t aware IceMan made a direct-touch block now. I have their original kit that works extremely well. They’re pumping out great products, and a lot easier to get than the foolishness that is dealing with SuperCool.

 

nice

Yes, I agree on both things. I have two direct die CPU blocks, a dual D5 pump housing and now the direct-touch memory block from IceMan Cooling and all of their stuff seems to be top quality. It is a real pain dealing with Supercool, and they are so slow. Quality is generally acceptable, but their direct die block is a pain in the butt to deal with how it mounts. Requires extra effort to avoid spilling water, which is silly. And, it took me multiple emails and posts in comments on their YouTube videos to get the missing parts sent to me for their RAM block. And, they still never sent the missing screws. Luckily, I had some that worked, but do not match the design. I think Supercool is run like a hobby more than a business.

[Barefooter]

That IceMan Cooler Direct Touch Memory Cooler is a great looking kit!

[Mr. Fox]

2 hours ago, Barefooter said:

That IceMan Cooler Direct Touch Memory Cooler is a great looking kit!

Thank you. I agree.

[Mr. Fox]

Well, I put that 14900KF that I recently bought with the excellent SP ratings and SA bug into my mini-ITX Munchkin PC and it's doing quite nice. The only thing holding it back now is the 360 AIO. It can't cool more than 57x all P-core and 46x all E-core effectively even after a delid. I ordered an EK CR360 Direct Die AIO to replace this CR360 Dark AIO so we will see how that does when the IHS isn't holding it back. That won't be arriving until sometime in May (on backorder). I was able to get the memory overclock to 8200 with tight timings. Now I will start pushing the cache and see how much it can handle so I can pull that latency down. If it can manage 51x cache with the 1.130V VCCSA that should bring it down to around 51 ns. I'm getting better results with this little guy, in spite of its thermal and power handling limitations, than some folks are getting with a much larger and more robust platform.
 

I put my Byski RAM jackets on the G.SKILL 8000 and my generic aluminum heat sink strips screwed to the top of them with a Corsair RAM fan blowing on that and now I can finish long memory stability tests without the memory overheating like it does with the crappy stock heating blankets.
 

I just played a little over an hour of MWIII and with enjoyed ~150 FPS with maxed out settings at 1440p using the ARC A770.

 

Edited April 15 by Mr. Fox

[J7SC_Orion]

Recently got 2x 24GB of GSkill 8400 ('for future reference') to join my 7200 kit  and ran them as 96GB CL30 6400 without any issue. Then it was time for fun and use just the new kit for some gaming and a bit of benching at CL36 8200