A lot of that is just creativity. However one trick is to snake them along with other popular cables such as main board power or fan controller wires and then just zip tie it at the point where you want it to stop. Another method would be to zip tie it to a point along a side of the case or top and leave some slack after the zip tie point thus letting it hang a bit.

Use the included "Software Sensor Tool" that is in the Aquasuite 2012 software, along with either Aida64 or Open Hardware Monitor (OHM)..

Or your gonna have to either tape or glue the sensor to the item... To be honest your going to get much more accurate readings direct from the mother board sensors as regards to Ram, Hard drive, GPU core & CPU core temps then you ever will by placing a spade temp sensor to the side of said items.

Aquasuite 2012 can use it's inbuilt "Software sensor tool" to read the Motherboard sensors using, as I said above either Aida64 or OHM..

If your cooling consist of a water cooling loop then use "Inline Temp sensors" for water temps e.t.c....

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I guess if i had read your question a little better i would have noticed the component aspect . My only advice for something such as ram would be to try and wedge it inside of there as best as possible between the heatsink and ram module. Or if you feel froggy remove the heatsink and then put the sensor against the chip and slide the heatsink back over it. CPU and GPU are accomplished through software a lot easier than a probe and thats the route most people go with those. If you haven't already purchased ram Corsair i think makes a specific chip that will allow you to monitor its temps. Aside from that chip i don't think there is any way to get temp readings from a RAM module which means you'll have to either give up on reading its temps or get inside of the heatsink to apply the probe. I was going to use that ram but by the time i realized i had purchased the wrong ones i already had the heat spreaders off, waterblocks mounted on it and installed it in my pc