Cooler Master and G.SKILL Collaborate to Bring Back DRAM Cooling with MasterDiim AC DDR5 Kits Featuring Blower-Style Heatspreaders

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Cooler Master and G.SKILL have teamed up to engineer a sleek-looking air-cooled DDR5 kit called MasterDimm AC. Air-cooled memory is making a comeback, something not commonly seen since DDR3 and G.SKILL had several products featuring it back then. This time around, with the help of Cooler Master, those seeking the faster speeds of DDR5 can […]

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[GodisanAtheist]

Better keep that ram fat, happy, and healthy if you know what's good for you

 

[LazyGamer]

I love the idea.

I have negative faith in the execution.

I expect that the cooling will be sub-par and offer little if any benefit, based on just how horrific most companies are at designing heatspreaders for their RAM. I expect the solution to be loud. And I expect the fans to be unreliable, making them louder over time and failing early. After they fail, I expect cooling to be worse than if a normal heatspreader were installed instead.

Oh, and I expect the price premium to be ridiculous.

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I don't enjoy being a Debbie Downer, but there are a lot of hurdles for G.Skill and Cooler Master to overcome for this to even be an 'okay' product.