I ordered some memory from newegg. The memory is made by G.Skill.



It has this housing on it that I have never personally seen before. Have any of you used this? Is it supposed to be removed?

4/16/2008 11:15:54 AM

Those covers are meant to be left in place.

4/16/2008 11:18:22 AM

they're heat spreaders. take them off if you want your RAM to overheat

4/16/2008 11:21:11 AM

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"they're heat spreaders. take them off if you want your RAM to overheat"

4/16/2008 11:25:53 AM

^^

4/16/2008 11:27:21 AM

How come no other companies use this? I have always used Crucial and Patriot and they don't have these...

4/16/2008 11:28:31 AM

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"I have always used Crucial and Patriot and they don't have these..."

4/16/2008 11:30:05 AM

ROFL

4/16/2008 11:33:49 AM

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"Heat spreaders aren't absolutely necessary. They are just another detail for the average gamer, but a necessity for anyone trying to OC their RAM. They feel cooler to the touch now, and if my CPU wasn't my bottleneck then I would be benching them right now! So if you have a chance, grab a few and tell me what you think... and of course, this is mostly for tweakers ;-) "

4/16/2008 11:34:13 AM

man I ordered almost 50 1GB PC 3200 sticks from Newegg about a month ago and none of them had that on it.

4/16/2008 11:34:17 AM

they're used in high-speed DIMMs and for the overclocking market, and are standard on FBDIMMs
Normal DDR2 DIMMs have no need for them because they don't get so hot.

4/16/2008 11:34:47 AM

and since Granite Balls wants to be an asshole






[Edited on April 16, 2008 at 11:41 AM. Reason : they haven't always had that shit]

4/16/2008 11:40:51 AM

We've already told you that it's shit they put on performance RAM.

[Edited on April 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM. Reason : as opposed to value ram, which is cheaper]

4/16/2008 11:48:05 AM

i've purchased a-data, crucial, mushkin, and g.skill in the past 2 months, and all of them had heat spreaders (a-data was pink, crucial was orange, mushkin was blue, and g.skill was red)

4/16/2008 11:52:06 AM

nobody is being an asshole. there is a simple explaination of why your new DIMMs have heat spreaders and why older ones don't.
Especially the 1GB PC 3200 DIMMs - those are low density, low-speed components. There is no need for additional heat sinks on them.

For the faster and/or bigger DIMMs now, though, they're just too hot. If you get RAM from specialty overclocker shops like G. Skill, they outfit them with heat-spreaders so they'll be better suited for overclocking at the customer end, or they (for example) 800MHz-rated parts from a RAM component supplier, slap some heat spreaders on them, test them at 1066MHz, then sell the module as 1066 even though the original components were only rated for 800.

In addition, FBDIMMs come at high densities like 2GB and 4GB modules, which require either lots of components on a module or high-density, power/heat-hungry 2Gb components. Plus the FBDIMMs have an AMB (buffer) which generates heat, so they all need heat-spreaders just to try to dissipate as much heat as possible. Otherwise the RAM will lock up or corrupt data

4/16/2008 1:17:00 PM

Performance RAM lol.

Do you have a cold air intake on your car as well?

4/16/2008 2:34:33 PM

Pretty sure that removing the heat spreaders will void your warranty.

4/16/2008 4:07:50 PM

The REAL reason so many dimms have heat spreaders on them is heat.

Not because it's "performance ram". Cheap shit like G.Skill (which I just bought 2gb of myself) has heat spreaders because they are using binned, cheaper memory modules that are running over spec. This gives you more speed for less money. It also means more heat, and those spreaders keep you from prying the dimm's apart and seeing the actual modules being used.

Plus it looks WAY cooler of course

4/16/2008 4:11:20 PM

I open my case to look at how cool mine are all the time. I should just get one of those clear panel cases with the neon lights.

4/16/2008 4:22:36 PM

my mushkin dimms look BALLER AS FUCK

4/16/2008 4:22:47 PM

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"The REAL reason so many dimms have heat spreaders on them is heat."

yeah..... and the heat is generated because of faster and/or more dense chips

4/16/2008 4:55:02 PM

I mean seriously

Do you really care what your RAM looks like?

As long as you can get 4gb < 100$, they could stamp Hello Kitty on there.

4/16/2008 5:20:38 PM

this thread is retarded

heat spreaders for ram have been around forever. just because you fail at google don't come in here calling everybody who is helping you an asshole, asshole

4/16/2008 5:41:30 PM

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"heat spreaders for ram have been around forever. just because you fail at google don't come in here calling everybody who is helping you an asshole, asshole"

/thread

also, if you don't know what heat spreaders are (or can even identify them), you have no business installing RAM in your computer, nor working any sort of IT job (which I can only assume that you do, since you ordered memory in bulk quantities).

normally, i'm not an asshole, but you're being an asshole.

4/16/2008 5:58:54 PM

I loled @ this thread.

4/17/2008 9:12:11 PM

^^
i think he bulk ordered to oc them and resell for more on ebay or somethin like that

4/17/2008 9:24:33 PM