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Offline TheZohan

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Re: RAM Heatsinks
« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2009, 04:09:12 AM »
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Re: RAM Heatsinks
« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2009, 07:15:42 AM »
You will not see a huge performance gain unless you are overclocking your memory, then you may see a 10 to 80 MHz increase in ability to OC higher then you were able to before the heatsink.  Good heat sinks for memory is almost as expensive as getting some fast DDR2 with them installed already (OCZ Reaper has some massive cooling).  DDR3 has heatsinks installed since most runs native at 1.9 volts or higher. Most good memory anymore has some sort of thermal dissipation built on.  It is actually attached with thermal tape stuck to the modules.  It can be removed with a razor and a little pressure to separate it from the module itself.

I would not invest in this, waste of monies in comparison to the gains IMHO.

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Re: RAM Heatsinks
« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2009, 07:48:10 AM »
I think he was getting them simply because of esthetic reasons, he has a windowed chassis.
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Re: RAM Heatsinks
« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2009, 02:09:59 PM »
I think he was getting them simply because of esthetic reasons, he has a windowed chassis.

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Re: RAM Heatsinks
« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2009, 02:42:30 PM »
Yeah, the main reason I'm looking at getting them is for the aesthetics because the case is windowed, but I also was just wondering about the heatsink abilities of them being as they only cost $6.
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