I built waterblocks for my DDR RAM back in the day. It was fun but ultimately overkill (and actually quite dangerous as I found out).
I had two sticks of Corsair PC2400 RAM (yes...this was before the PC2700 standard was finalized). I was running -30'c coolant and was able to run that RAM at 210MHz or so on my old Abit KT266a motherboard (remember that chipset
) I had pics and benchmark scores and everything posted in the old AMDZone forum (before it crashed and I lost all my work logs and the like). Oh its all coming back now...running my AXIA 1000MHz Thunderbird at 1750MHz...
However, I ended up killing one of the sticks when the assembly ended up pulling the RAM right out of the board when the system was running. I found out the hard way those little tabs that hold the RAM in arent really too strong
Over time the RAM was being pulled out and eventually one day it happened and that dreaded horrible emergency BEEEEEP happened. Im sure you can reconstruct in your mind the next 15 minutes of the story.
Basically, its not worth it if you cant secure the RAM in place. My $0.02...