RAM Heat Spreaders....Are they even worth it?

[glorygunk]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: glorygunkiamtrout, i am not so keen on positioning another fan over my RAM. more noise, more wiring, disrupted airflow...u just have to stop somewhere with this, u know?

How about just getting a HSF that cool surrounding components, such as the XP120 or the upcoming Zalman 7700? Your Northbridge would get cooling, your mosfets, RAM, everything else around the CPU would have a 120mm fan blowing down on it for good air flow.

Assuming your northbridge, mosfets, ram, etc are actually getting that hot, then I am pretty sure your CPU is getting hot as well. So wouldn't that 120mm be blowing HOT air? Not to mention that it is indirect airflow you are talking about.




On a similar vein, it is interesting that video ram gets so much more hot that ramsinks actually do make a difference there. I can attest to this because I have touched those suckers and they are HOT HOT.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

there is virtually no performance gains with standard heatspreaders. If you want to really cool your ram then get some larger individual heatisnks for the ram chips. If you want to purty-fy your set-up a little than the heatspreaders do help quite a bit there.

 

[IEC]

Keeps the RAM cooler and may help overclocks... for stock speeds shouldn't really help.