Overclocking valueRAM - do I need heatspreaders?

[bmillerd]

After seeing a post here the other day (can't remember who it was by) about the difference between value ram and top of the line stuff I figured I'd play around with some valueRAM. I plan to overclock it as far as it can go, I'm running a GA-7N400 pro2 motherboard with a barton 2500 core running @ 2ghz atm without any problems, but I want to get a lot more out of it than that. Should I worry about heat spreaders?

 

[Thor86]

If you are planning on only using upwards of 2.8vdimm max, and have good air circulation inside you computer case, you do not need heatspreaders on your ram imho.

 

[Hyperlite]

I think it has been proven at this point that heatspreaders actually serve no purpose other than asthetics.

 

[mwmorph]

no. heatspreaders only heat up the unused chips, while making the used chips only slightly cooler. my case has a 92mm vantec stealth mounted to the top of my ram modules(1/2 inch off top of my 2 modules. each stick holding a side of the fan. works a lot better than a heatspreader for cheaper too.