Help Choosing Ram For New Board

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

thread hijacked.............this was about RAM, not heat dissipation

[abu_has_the_power]

i highly appreciate ur input clocker. but i too have had experience with both ram with and without spreaders. my old ram, samsung infineon, got fairly warm. i put my hand on it after i shut down the comp and unplug the power. now, the corsair ram, i do the same thing, and the heat spreaders are not much hotter than my room temp. i noticed very significant difference between the 2. plus, i do have my side fan blowing into the case, and it's blowing rite into the ram. this is the case for both the corsiar and samsung.

once again, i appreciate your analysis, but i speak from experience

[tesco]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@21 February 2004 - 19:16
i highly appreciate ur input clocker. but i too have had experience with both ram with and without spreaders. my old ram, samsung infineon, got fairly warm. i put my hand on it after i shut down the comp and unplug the power. now, the corsair ram, i do the same thing, and the heat spreaders are not much hotter than my room temp. i noticed very significant difference between the 2. plus, i do have my side fan blowing into the case, and it's blowing rite into the ram. this is the case for both the corsiar and samsung.

once again, i appreciate your analysis, but i speak from experience

lol you call touching the ram and feeling if it is hot experience not that i dont beleive you its just funny is all, its possible that the reason it is cooler is becuase the heat is being trapped inside the heat spreader so you arent feeling it.

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by ROSSCO_2004+21 February 2004 - 19:32--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ROSSCO_2004 @ 21 February 2004 - 19:32)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-abu_has_the_power@21 February 2004 - 19:16
i highly appreciate ur input clocker. but i too have had experience with both ram with and without spreaders. my old ram, samsung infineon, got fairly warm. i put my hand on it after i shut down the comp and unplug the power. now, the corsair ram, i do the same thing, and the heat spreaders are not much hotter than my room temp. i noticed very significant difference between the 2. plus, i do have my side fan blowing into the case, and it&#39;s blowing rite into the ram. this is the case for both the corsiar and samsung.

once again, i appreciate your analysis, but i speak from experience

lol you call touching the ram and feeling if it is hot experience not that i dont beleive you its just funny is all, its possible that the reason it is cooler is becuase the heat is being trapped inside the heat spreader so you arent feeling it. [/b][/quote]
the heat spreaders are metal. they conduct heat. so the heat from the ram will flow to the metal. rite?

[clocker]

Abu, I appreciate the effort, but you are not making a valid comparison.
Take your shiny, new Corsair sticks and spin &#39;em up till they bleed.
Then run some memory benchmark for oh...let&#39;s say 24 hours.

Now pry the heatspreaders off and repeat.
You can skip the rinse and lather part.

Is there a difference?
THAT would constitute convincing proof to me.

Sorry, but the "touch test" don&#39;t quite get it.

[Livy]

as with a previous topic i posted about them there was no proof either way to heat spreaders, however i do believe these will both do a better job than any heatspreaders.

http://www.tweakmonster.com/products/ramsinkpage.htm

http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?LT=e...-U01+Ram%20Sink

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by Livy@21 February 2004 - 21:19
as with a previous topic i posted about them there was no proof either way to heat spreaders, however i do believe these will both do a better job than any heatspreaders.

http://www.tweakmonster.com/products/ramsinkpage.htm

http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?LT=e...-U01+Ram%20Sink

those require some kind of airflow to pass through them.

[Livy]

but in theory they will perform alot better than a heat spreader in excatly the same situation, isnce they have more surface area,

and they dont require airflow.

by the same as what your saying, heatspreaders will need airflow too.

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by Livy@21 February 2004 - 21:28
but in theory they will perform alot better than a heat spreader in excatly the same situation, isnce they have more surface area,

and they dont require airflow.

by the same as what your saying, heatspreaders will need airflow too.

exactly. that&#39;s y i have my side fan blowing onto the ram

[clocker]

Originally posted by Livy@21 February 2004 - 18:28
but in theory they will perform alot better than a heat spreader in excatly the same situation, isnce they have more surface area,

and they dont require airflow.

by the same as what your saying, heatspreaders will need airflow too.

Precisely.
Until these have been proven to work better than nothing at all I will still classify them as "eye candy" and not a "performance must have".

Not that I&#39;m totally opposed to eye candy.
Why I&#39;ve gone so far as to stop and gaze at the CCs at MicroCenter.