Water Cooling RAM, does this happen?

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Removing heatspreaders on gskill ram. 2 out of 4 messed up with one micro chip being pulled off. Never had this happen before to me, although never had gskill ram before.

Should this happen these days?

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Aargh balls :(. I'd say 99% that's not supposed to happen.

What's the chances it reads as 14gb rather than 16 now?

Weird that both chips that came off are between the tape strips :confused:.
 
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Havent done that in a few years... Note for future reference that these parts come apart more easily when warm (it softens the glue).. So either run it hard for a while or use a hairdryer/heat gun (careful with heatgun, applies a lot of heat quickly!)

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Mynight said:
Aargh balls :(. I'd say 99% that's not supposed to happen.

What's the chances it reads as 14gb rather than 16 now?

Weird that both chips that came off are between the tape strips :confused:.
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The tape was just to keep the adhesive tacky now in parts box!

Brand new also!!
 
seen it a few times, it dose also mention in the instruction for EK ram modals to show caution as that can happen. there only held on by solder and thats not known for its strength

What ram was it?
 
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Seems very unlucky to me.

I've only ever had 4 kits apart from the heat-spreaders but with no issues.

In future I'd run the ram for a few hours normal use or 1 hour stress test before taking them off to warm the RAM adhesive
 
Seen it happen a few times before. The thing is that watercooling the ram is pointless anyway. It's not as if it runs hot with DDR3 and DDR4. Mine doesn't even have heatspreaders yet it's cool to the touch.
 
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