Overclockers will soon be gaining another advanced item in their cooling aresenal. Partiot Memory (makers) put out a press release today on the Vortex cooling solution: no mere copper heatsink, this RAM cooling kit comes with heat pipes attached to two 40mm 5000RPM mini-fans.

"Patriot's Vortex active cooling fan is the perfect way to help keep your memory operating at optimal performance," bragged Les Henry, Technical Director of Patriot Memory, in a press release today. "Heat is a major enemy when it comes to high-performance overclocking memory. By adding airflow directly over the memory, Vortex can lower module temperatures up to 30%. This means potentially higher performing memory with increased stability for running today's complex multi-threaded applications which require high-bandwidth, low-latency memory."

This sweet RAM cooler has a catch though: it takes power from a DIMM slot. So if your sllots are filled at the moment, no extreme RAM overclocking for you.

Also, ThermalTake decided to throw a fan into the mix a few days go with the unveiling of the new RamOrb. This unit is 136g, supports DDR2, and the one 50mm fan runs at 4500 RPM.

Good times, for overclockers.

No word yet on the price for either of these two products.