will heat spreaders on ram help with overclocking?

[Maximus96]

the 2x512 mushkin basic pc3200 didn't come with heat spreaders. at 220mhz, prime95 gives a rounding error after 5-6 hours even running at 2.7v. would heat spreaders help? if so which one should i get? thanks

btw, the rest of the machine is
a64 3200+
asus k8n-e
all timing number set to auto by mobo.

 

[nick1985]

no

 

[Maximus96]

why do the more expensive rams include them?

 

[RaNDoMMAI]

Originally posted by: zaku
why do the more expensive rams include them?

looks alot better, thats it

~RaNDoM

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: nick1985
no

 

[caz67]

Just for looks, ..no real benefits..

 

[Adn4n]

If you have a DFI lan party with hacked bios that sets ram voltage up to 4.0 then.....no. You'll need more juice to run it even at 220. My 3500 has trouble at 220 even, I suggest a divider.

 

[Maximus96]

Adn4n, I don't understand where to set the divider in K8N-E. I see that you have the same mobo, can you explain where the divider is at in bios? I thought it was under Memclock, but i'm not sure which value i should have it in, 200, 266, 333, or 400. Please help. thanks

 

[chilled]

For video RAM I would say yes, but generally a small amount ~5%. It helped the 333MHz DDR ram on my GeForce2 GTS reach 400MHz - it would reach 380MHz without them.

But with system RAM, it doesn't get hot anyway so I would say there's no point don't bother. Unless you want the look that is.

 

[chocoruacal]

RAM heatspreaders will help thin your wallet, but that's about it. Overclocking is not a science...play with the voltages, play with the FSB. Or just buy faster RAM and make life simple