Memory heatspreaders

[Oyeve]

Hey all. In my system I have 6 HDs, DVD burner, DVD/CDRW combo drive, Radeon 9800 pro, P4 3ghz Northwood, Audigy 2 ZS, AverTV card, ATA/133 card. I recently swapped my memory for faster memory. I was using 2 sticks of 512meg PC 2700 in dual channel and I had put on heatspreaders cause they looked cool. I didnt put spreaders on the new mem (Corsair Value Ram) and need advice on if I should. My PC runs at 41F idle and hits around 57F under heavy gaming and the CPU fan starts to really kick in. I plan to get a couple of more sticks to reach 2 gb, should I put spreaders on the mem or is it a waste and actually make them hotter as no fan actually blows on the mem. Thanks.

 

[imported_Phil]

They're worthless.

RAM heatspreaders = Rice.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Dopefiend
They're worthless.

RAM heatspreaders = Rice.

Maybe if they used a decent thermal transfer material, rather than that super-thick thermal tape they usually use, then they'd be better. Then they'd qualify as "only slightly better than nothing." 🙂

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Dopefiend
They're worthless.

RAM heatspreaders = Rice.

Maybe if they used a decent thermal transfer material, rather than that super-thick thermal tape they usually use, then they'd be better. Then they'd qualify as "only slightly better than nothing." 🙂

Thats what I figured. Thanks guys.

 

[Zepper]

I think Zalman sells some tiny heatsinks that you can put one on each RAM chip with something like Arctic Silver adhesive. Those might actually do something.

.bh.

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