Whats with Mushkin's new heatspreaders on their memory?

[darkswordsman17]

I just got my memory back from an RMA, and their new heatspreaders are kinda wierd.

Here's a newegg pic

Over the memory itself its like a normal heatspreader, but at the top its rounded and looks like it was made for a tubular object to be put up there, but there isn't anything. When I first saw them I thought maybe its for lighting, but I don't see anywhere on Mushkin's site where they have anything like that.

I guess maybe it somehow allows more air to escape through the top or something, but just seems kinda weird.

 

[TankGuys]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
I just got my memory back from an RMA, and their new heatspreaders are kinda wierd.

Here's a newegg pic

Over the memory itself its like a normal heatspreader, but at the top its rounded and looks like it was made for a tubular object to be put up there, but there isn't anything. When I first saw them I thought maybe its for lighting, but I don't see anywhere on Mushkin's site where they have anything like that.

I guess maybe it somehow allows more air to escape through the top or something, but just seems kinda weird.

Yep, they're supposed to be better for cooling. That's the theory anyway

 

[LOUISSSSS]

they look fine?

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: TankGuys

Yep, they're supposed to be better for cooling. That's the theory anyway

Ah, makes sense I guess (well at least as much sense as the heatspreaders themselves).

It would actually be a pretty decent place to put some lighting (like some really small cold cathode), or maybe just put a little plastic container of the glow sticks thats filled with UV reactive ooze.

I woudn't want 4 sticks of it though since the tops kinda stick out and would make for some clearance issues between the sticks whe they're in close pairs.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
they look fine?

Yeah. I like the looks a bit better than the normal heatspreaders, but its not really any big deal.

I guess they could've cut them out into some weird design, but that would have made for some clearance issues I would assume.

 

[bjc112]

I think they look good!

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: bjc112
I think they look good!

 

[darkswordsman17]

Hmm, I wonder if I'm going to have clearance issues. I've got a Zalman 7000, and if I remember correctly, they just fit over the tops of the older memory (where the top of the heatspreaders were just a tiny bit higher than the tops of the memory itself).

The board I'm gonna be using is the Biostar TForce-6100, which has a pretty good space between the CPU socket and the memory sockets, so it might fit fine after all.

Looks like I'll probably get rid of this stuff for 2GB of ValueRAM anyways, so no big deal. The heatspreaders would probably just make the RAM hotter in the small case anyways. I don't think I'd really be able to take advantage of this stuff in this board either, so it'd kinda be a waste.