Testing

For memory cooler testing we need to use a temperature probe (As there isn't an onboard sensor) to take the temperature during idle and load situations.

The temperature probe was placed inside the heatspreader and was rested against a memory chip. The temperatures were taken when the PC had sat at idle for 30 minutes and had been fully loaded for 30 minutes.

The rig that this cooler was tested in is as follows:

Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.7ghz
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
Silverstone Olypia 650w
MSI 8800GTS
OCZ 2gb Special Ops PC6400 @ 900mhz w/ 2.0v
Spire Blackfin case with Noiseblocker 120mm's fitted in the front and rear; side panel 120mm fan disabled.

Results are given for the temperature with the original OCZ heatpsreaders, with the High Rise HR07 without a fan and with a fan.

All temperatures are given in degrees celsius.

Results

As you can see, the HR07 makes a substantial difference to memory temperatures. Simply moving from the OCZ heatspreaders to the HR07 without a fan causes huge temperature drops though the main drop is when adding a fan to the heatsink.

Unfortunately running these modules cooler than they had been did not give me anymore of an overclock than I had already hoped, but it did keep both modules nice and cool while I was messing about putting 2.25 volts through. I imagine that those with extreme voltage memory kits would see a large overclocking benefit from this cooler as it would keep their RAM nice and chilly while they tweaked away.

Cost

The High Rise HR07 can be found for around £18. Be aware that this £18 does not include a fan so for this kit you could be looking at just over £20 altogether.