Corsair's Peltier memory cooler gets demonstrated

Corsair's Dominator memory can apparently get quite hot, particularly if the overclocking bug catches you right. If a product shown off at CES hits the commercial market, however, everything is sure to stay cool. The Peltier cooling device is expected to play nice with second-gen Dominator modules, and when attached to existing heatsinks it can be used to cool a larger heat block in pretty much any water cooling setup. We know, you're probably scratching your head, but hop on past the break for a quick video demonstration.

[Thanks, Ryan]

[MasterAndew @ Jan 11th 2009 3:49AM]

Well thats a minute something I won't get back. Thanks!

[npChaos @ Jan 11th 2009 4:01AM]

Don't forget to add the few more seconds it took you to post that comment...

I hate when people say things like that.

Anyways, looks pretty cool (har har?) but I don't really understand why so much redundancy is required. All the peltier is doing is cooling the ram directly and dumping it's heat off at the water cooling, you are just added more power requirements to the setup when you can just run direct waterblocks. Maybe it's cooler, I don't know, but it seems rather excessive.

[Matthew C @ Jan 11th 2009 4:02AM]

I died after about 40 seconds.

But then again, it is 3 am.

[beta.guy @ Jan 11th 2009 5:12AM]

Shit man, I've lost hours to sites like ... there's something wrong with the internet these days.

[Wolfticket @ Jan 11th 2009 10:20AM]

Me, I hang out at www.notclickingonpatheticattemptstospamengadgetcommentswithyourshittylittlesite.com

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Jan 11th 2009 4:11AM]

Those exotic cooling setups (Phase Change), overpriced ($300-500+) OC' motherboard, and fancy ram needed for overclocking can easily add $1500+ or more to the price of a home built machine, only so they can overclock a $99 pokey little celeron. Why not just spend the $1,000 on the Extreme Edition (unlocked multiplier), decent air cooling, and save a few dollars?

"Old Skool" (early 80's) Overclockers, overclocked to save money by buying the cheapest hardware they could and dropping and swapping in a cheap crystal clock bought at radio shack. Contemporary overclockers, just don't use the same logic. It remains a mystery to me.

[STINK @ Jan 11th 2009 4:20AM]

"Why not just spend the $1,000 on the Extreme Edition (unlocked multiplier), decent air cooling, and save a few dollars?"

*shrugs*

It's a hobby.

[Shinigami @ Jan 11th 2009 5:40AM]

$1000 extreme edition is the same CPU you get for $300 but with unlocked multiplier. Meaning with some good air/water cooling you can reach a similar result. $100 cpu can't reach same result due to multiplier.
$300 overclocking motherboard will get you further than $100 motherboard but I agree $500 is too much. $250 should be your limit.

And this RAM cooler is just the same as any other fancy cooler for RAM - overpriced piece of junk nobody needs but some buy, because its a hobby.

Did you hear even one story of PC rebooting/bugging/crashing due to RAM overheating? I didn't. Proper case cooling (venting the hot air out, pulling the cold air in) is more than enough to keep the PC running.
IMO

[Rocketboy @ Jan 11th 2009 11:33AM]

It's just the nerdier version of the person who spends 10,000 on their Civic to make it Almost perform like a car that cost 10,000 more than what they paid for it in the first place.

Almost.

[XGM @ Jan 11th 2009 11:39AM]

Because my i7 920 is OC'ed from 2.66 GHz to ~3.90 GHz on a 300$ Water cooling loop that includes my GTX 260. Its all super stable and the price difference here in Canada is 900-950$ for the extreme. So id say its worth it especially since it benches better then at extreme stock speeds.

[Brook @ Jan 11th 2009 1:21PM]

for those confused...basically what this peliter does is it causes one side to be come ice cold (ive seen them with frost forming) and the other side becomes like a lava pool....
you pretty much have to have water cooling to dissipate the heat quickly enough. now as to why it is on ram, is beyond me. ive never heard of ram being run that hot that it would need it, i would imagine your CPU would fail before that point is reached. really the whole OC thing now a days is mostly e-penis

[taavi @ Jan 11th 2009 5:03AM]

wohoo

[Josh Ladella @ Jan 11th 2009 10:07AM]

Does it come with cool music?

[Abuzar Baloach @ Jan 11th 2009 10:32AM]

Why? Good airflow is enough to keep ram with decent heatsinks from overheating even when overclocked. Totally useless.

[TehNomad @ Jan 11th 2009 11:12AM]

The reason for memory heatsinks is so you can get higher clocks. The advantage of getting higher clocks is you can do 1:1 memory speed/FSB (or whatever the i7 equivalent is), which runs more stable than any other ratio. Potentially, you can get higher overclocks.

Why do people want the highest overclocks? It's sort of like asking "Why do people want to have the best baseball team and spend millions of dollars for star athletes?"

[why not the LS2LS7? @ Jan 11th 2009 1:07PM]

Peltier cooling doesn't really work. It just puts too much heat at the place where you really want to cool.

[linuxamp @ Jan 12th 2009 3:27AM]

Peltier coolers get hot on one side and cool on the other. As long as you put the right side on the chips it does work. Maybe you had yours on backwards. You still have to remove the heat from the rear which is why they have water cooling.

The real problem with peltiers is that they can fail and if they do they become insulators which is the worst thing to have between a hot chip and heatsink.

[Juaquin @ Jan 11th 2009 1:55PM]

Talk about unnecessary overkill. A simple heatsink is more than enough for RAM with good airflow.

[Bjorno @ Jan 11th 2009 4:41PM]

Seems like this is rather pointless.

This setup is like shining a floodlight on a backlit LCD so you can see it better.

[va jj @ Jan 11th 2009 5:11PM]

i held back the left click when i saw the link pcper.


that site is full of racist members seriously they have something against asians.