Tuesday, January 8th 2019
Thermaltake Brings Watercooled DDR4 Memory to Market with WaterRam RGB
Thermaltake at CES has just spread its wings towards another slice of the market: the system memory one. With their new WaterRam, the company is trying to offer a unique product that fuses watercooling and RGB lighting with the memory kits for both seamless performance and looks. Thermaltake says these are the world's first two-way cooling DDR4 memory, with a software-controlled water-block capable of displaying 16.8 million colors with 12 lumens. They say this cooling solutions lowers RAM temperature by 37% "compared to traditional natural passive cooling solutions, which ensures stable and instant performance and longer lifespan."
Thermaltake's WaterRam is the first product the company introduces after making their TT RGB PLUS Ecosystem known, and WaterRam can sync with motherboards from ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI and AsRock that have a 5V addressable RGB header. The kits are available in DDR4 3200 MHz speeds with 32 GB (8 GB x4) or 16GB density (8 GB x2).
Support for Intel XMP 2.0 is offered, and there's an interesting bit here: "Limited Lifetime Warranty for RAM". Because the lifetime warranty would never be able to cover the waterblock and other parts of the system, which leaves us wondering: what if a part of the watercooling portion fails for these kits?
24 Comments on Thermaltake Brings Watercooled DDR4 Memory to Market with WaterRam RGB
you pay more just for light effect than the hardware
I don't believe it does much...
the only problem is - it's a huge headache to watercool your ram.
Active cooling for DDR2 was a thing, was rarelly worth it for DDR3 and now it's just a meme.
Noctua fan 1500rpm blowing directly on sticks -> sticks are < 38C - > 1000%HCI completely fine.
Passive cooling -> sticks are up to 45-50C -> 60% HCI FAIL. Easy as can be.
I just soaked my 32gb of TridentX DDR3 modules in Isopropanol over night to get rid of the riddiculus and childish looking heatspreaders which were getting in the way of some serious cpu cooling. No issues at all, even with high oc.
Fist, peripherals with voice-controlled backlight. Then, PSUs with IoT-like power/LED control via App. Now, watercooled DDR4...Nowadays it's more abou chip binning, rather than cooling. DDR4 in most cases doesn't even need a heatspreader.What kind of RAM? What kind of board? What kind of voltage? How many sticks?
I highly doubt that overheating is your problem.
Sure if your rams running over 5000 you will fill different, but but.
Anyway its more like a toy.
I already figured it out - 45C under load IS the problem
Nobody on here probably cares but I've seen it proven that heat can cause errors and since most of the RAM folks on here use isn't ECC, it can induce errors into data without knowing it. Maybe it's an issue, maybe not. Meh right? bluesmoke.sourceforge.net/heat_gun.html
Plus who cares if it's a gimmick or not? I'm sick of many in the so called "enthusiast" community just being a bunch of cranky jerks about what makes this hobby so great; CHOICES/OPTIONS. Do what you want on your rig and enjoy it. It's even worse when you hear this kind of rhetoric from folks who aren't even actually doing much with their rigs in the first place, such as buying higher clocked or heavily overclocking their RAM (to keep to the topic). So what do you REALLY truly know about it? Just a lot of hearsay. And no, before people get defensive, I'm not saying you need to watercool your RAM.
OMG is an excuse for liquid cooling. The use of materials is miserable. The liquid is cooled through an aluminum plate (chrome plated!). on the way there is a narrowing that will harm the whole circle. Material loss and really just for diode decoration!
www.thermaltake.com/cooler.aspx
The rest of the lineup is also nickel-plated copper. As far as I remember they were usually good about the watercooling part of things... at least 10-15 years ago =)
Bells and whistles (software, RGB, extra features) - not so much.It doesn't matter. It's still pointless. You are better off buying just regular RGB sticks or RGB shroud with low-speed fans, cause this thing is not good at actually cooling RAM.
That review @bogami posted clearly shows that TT DDR4 watercooled kit runs pretty much just as hot and just as fast as G.Skill Trident Z at the exact same voltage/bus speed/timings (passively cooled by solar wind from it's uber-bright LEDs).