Interesting read. My Kingston Fury DDR5 gets very hot too, especially now I'm running it at its EXPO speeds. I was thinking about hooking up some additional fans for a bit of extra airflow but I was stumped by how close the dimm slots are to the cpu socket and the heatsink, but the photos here have given me a couple of ideas. Will see if I can get a couple of brackets printed.
Edit: On my Gigbyte RTX50 Aero D, dimm slots are surround by VRM heatsinks and/or my GPU and the Artic Freezer 4U SP3. There is very little airflow that gets to them. In lieu of a better, 3d printed fan bracket or adaptor for the SP3's inlet fan I've mounted a couple of Noctua's 40mm NF-4Ax20 PWM fans to try and put some airflow over the dimms. At max RPM they're lost in the noise of other things in my set up and have reduced temperatures from 95°C to high 70s to mid 80s when working flat out. At idle they're in the 30-40°C.
I'm going to attempt to make a shroud to aid airflow over the dimms, possibly with the option of a 40mm fan at inlet and outlet. 95°C dimm temperature was more than a little worrying. The design of the Gigabyte board must be expecting a top down cooler or something, the VRM heatsinks block airflow through the dimms.
Edit: On my Gigbyte RTX50 Aero D, dimm slots are surround by VRM heatsinks and/or my GPU and the Artic Freezer 4U SP3. There is very little airflow that gets to them. In lieu of a better, 3d printed fan bracket or adaptor for the SP3's inlet fan I've mounted a couple of Noctua's 40mm NF-4Ax20 PWM fans to try and put some airflow over the dimms. At max RPM they're lost in the noise of other things in my set up and have reduced temperatures from 95°C to high 70s to mid 80s when working flat out. At idle they're in the 30-40°C.
I'm going to attempt to make a shroud to aid airflow over the dimms, possibly with the option of a 40mm fan at inlet and outlet. 95°C dimm temperature was more than a little worrying. The design of the Gigabyte board must be expecting a top down cooler or something, the VRM heatsinks block airflow through the dimms.
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