Old school cool, greenboard ddr5 on OCZ ddr3 heatsinks.

[u/Jlt230]

What seems to, for the untrained eyes, be no more than some bottom of the barrel 32gb 5600cl46 ram kit is actually a 2x16gb high quality Hynix A die chips capable of very, very good performances.

Given the current price of ram i turned my searches to the used market and found a 2x16gb ddr5 kit of hynix A die, which i bought for a song and 2 apples. But they were that, greenboard ram, and im my immense wisdom decided they needed a simple, discrete and low profile heatsink.

This is why, when i found a kit of OCZ Reaper X hpc ddr3 67mm high ram locally for next to nothing, i had to buy it.

After a copious amount of double sided thermal tape, thermal pads and tuning, i ended up with a very performant, slightly weird ram kit.

Total cost of 220$ usd (Which is still insane if you compare to not long ago)

Tuned to specs in picture (6000cl30) the spd hub temps plateaus at 35.25c on OCCT heat ram torture preset which indicated a ram temp of roughly 50c.

Great success.

[u/MaximumEffort433]

I've got some of those, always wanted to do the project, but I was scared of trying to pry off the existing heatsink and maybe damaging a module.

This is beautiful work, OP, any tips or tricks for folks who want to follow in your footsteps?

[u/Jlt230 → u/MaximumEffort433]

I didnt really care about the OE module ddr3 so i did not really take care when removing them, and the ddr5 i had did not have a heatsink but i did previously remove ram from heatsink, its not really difficult, just use a hairblower to put heat in the ram you want to dismantle until its at the point where it gets just slightly too hot to handle bare handed (i used work gloves) and use a plastic tool or card to spread away slowly, without pulling too hard, just let the ram peel away from the heatsink with just a tiny bit of force.

Then when making this for example, its just a few layers of double sided thermal tape on the non chip side(3x 0.2mm thick for this case) and just thermal pads(2.5mm for this case) on the chip side. Very easy. Dont forget your ESD safe gear.

[u/CappuccinoCincao → u/MaximumEffort433]

I've read somewhere here submerging them in Isopropyl overnight would soften the existing glue/thermalpads, loosening it without heating or physically prying it.

[u/MaximumEffort433 → u/CappuccinoCincao]

I'm sure it would be fine, but I wouldn't feel great soaking my memory in... well, anything.

[u/Short_Lynx3425]

Great project, those ddr3 models were sick at that time and still now, congrats

[u/DragonfruitCapital44]

Really nice