How can I cool my RAM Modules?

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Hi -

I have a Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler on my Asus Sabertooth Z77 motherboard.

At least one of my two 8 GB Memory Modules is underneath the Noctua, and gets poor airflow.

How can I cool my RAM (added fan, or other options)? I think that my last DIMMs failed due to poor airflow around the DIMMs.

Thanks!

AzJazz
 
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If you have decent airflow in the case and decent sticks, should be no need for additional cooling on the sticks, exceptions could be high freq/hogh performance sticks or poorer quality sticks, i.e. lower freq like 1333 or 1600 that require higher voltages (1.65) or sticks with higher freq that require additional voltage to the MC

What mobo, CPU and DRAM (model #)
 
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I have a Asus Sabertooth Z77 motherboard.

My case is a Koolance PC4-1025BK, which I used to use for a water-cooled system. I don't use water cooling anymore.

I still have the 3x120 mm radiator exhaust fans running on top of the PC. I have a 120 mm fan pulling in air at the front of the PC across the hard drives, and one 120 mm exhaust fan pulling air out the back (directly behind the Noctua).

There is a steel metal barrier (used for cleaner cable routing) that severely reduces the amount of air flow from the front case fan getting to the CPU/RAM area.

I have an Intel Core i7 3770 CPU (nominal temp around 31 DegC), an Nvidia GTX 770 GPU (nominal temp around 29 DegC).

My DRAM is: Crucial Ballistix Tactical Low Profile 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3-1600 1.35V UDIMM 240-Pin Memory Modules BLT2C8G3D1608ET3LX0

Thanks,

AzJazz
 
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Thanks, Tradesman1 -

The main reason I am concerned is that my previous RAM modules failed after less than 2 years of use - It was a highly clocked/higher voltage RAM set, though (2133 DDR3 RAM).

I just purchased this lower voltage 1600 RAM about 1 month ago, and I just saw the same BSOD that I saw when my other RAM failed. The PC appeared frozen, although there were shot periodic hard drive accesses. The BSOD I saw was a DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE (STOP 0x9F), which doesn't look like a RAM failure, but I still had bad RAM - And the problem seemed to clear up (until now) after I put the new RAM in.

Maybe it's just a coincidence?
 
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I already have the latest BIOS installed for my motherboard.

I reinstalled my Acronis True Image Home software - One of the BSODs seemed to implicate TIH2014, which maybe was corrupted during my BSODs.
So, I figured I would reinstall TIH2014.

I also installed the newest Nvidia GPU drivers. Even though there wasn't any specific reason to, I figure that if M$ says that a STOP 0x9F is driver-related, the Graphics drivers are probably some of the most complicated drivers on the PC.

No BSODs since I did those repairs, but I would equate that to dinosaur damage insurance for now. I can't say I trust my system yet.
 
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