Corsair TEC to take DDR3 to new (and colder) heights

by James Smith on 9 March 2009, 13:32

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HEXUS took a look at some tasty Corsair DOMINATOR GT 2GHz CL7 RAM a short while ago, commenting that it was the fastest around.

Shipping with a DOMINATOR AIRFLOW fan as standard, we note that the heatspreaders were designed such that a waterblock or TEC unit could be installed for enhanced cooling.



Corsair was demonstrating the TEC unit at CeBIT 2009. TECs (Peltiers) work on the principle of running voltage through two dissimilar materials (semiconductors).  Joined together electrically, the voltage causes heat to be pulled from one side to the other, making it colder. The cold side helps drag heat away from the components you're cooling, but the hot side of the TEC requires cooling itself, and that's why you see the watercooling on top.

Put simply, TEC-assisted watercooling is better than basic liquid cooling because it drags the heat away quicker.


We managed to push our 2GHz CL7 kit to 2.1GHz CR1 with the DOMINATOR AIRFLOW, so it will be interesting to see just how much help the TEC provides. We have one in the labs right now, and we'll attach it to the modules this week.

What you don't see is the humidity sensor that ensures condensation doesn't take place on the cold side - the last thing you'll want is water dripping on to the components, right.

No word on the pricing and availability of the waterblock or TEC unit, but we'll update this article once we have news from Corsair.

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Seems a bit ott if you ask me.
Don't tell me someone's designed a TEC system that actually works efficiently??? :o It'd be a first imo.
DDR3… with a TEC? WTF? 95% of DDR3 will run perfectly fine without even heatspreaders, let alone gimmicks like this. I'd laugh at those with watercooling, let alone anyone who bought this (in more ways than one).

It's worse than the hopelessly pointless northbridge heatsinks.

If they want to sell crap like this, then they should do a proper test. See how far you can clock it, then with the same sticks (so no special review samples) remove all the über cooling crap and clock it again.

Grr.
i think corsair are just bored and probably stoned people with lots of money.


“Heyyyyyy guuuuyyyssssss u know what wud be an AWESOME idea!”
Infinite
Seems a bit ott if you ask me.

Yup. Next thing you know somebody will start offering HDD water-cooling.