RAM Heat Spreaders

[Frown66]

Can anyone with a lot of experience messing with RAM comment on this?

All these performance places put their high-end stuff with heat spreaders. Does the stuff really work? That metal "coat" just seems way too thin to really offer any kind of good heat spread and looks like it just makes the ramstick hotter.

Note: I don't really know anything about heat conductivity, so I'm really just speculating with no solid basis. Just really curious.

 

[Dough1397]

i think heat spreaders spread teh heat amongst teh ram chips... not actually cool them... could eb wrong tho

 

[imported_Kensai]

It *actually* works if you've got active cooling on them since it's got more area to spread the heat onto which gives more area for the air to pull heat from.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: Kensai
It *actually* works if you've got active cooling on them since it's got more area to spread the heat onto which gives more area for the air to pull heat from.

without some elaborate cooling, the "heatspreaders" are a total gimmick. they might even be nice little blankets for the chips. most manufacturers don't use any TIM on the chips.

even with active cooling, the gains are suspect.

 

[Baked]

You're better off using that money to buy a fan and blow it on the RAMs.