Custom heatsinks

[morbid42]

Hi,

When ram is purchased it comes with heatsinks. Is there any real life benefit to removing them and using custom ones? Like younwould do with graphics cards for example.

Thanks

 

[pastymuncher]

Nope. Most memory don't even need heatsinks and manufacturers fit them for added "bling" as most people don't like seeing bare memory sticks. Personally I think bare memory looks fine as long as the pcb is black. I had 16Gb of Samsung Grenn DDR3 before my current set up and those sticks were bare yet overclocked from 1600mhz to 2133mhz C9 with 1.5v and were barely warm.

Removing heatsinks can invalidate your warranty and done incorrectly you can even rip memory chips off the pcb!!

 

[MaXxBoulton]

As pastymuncher said the stock heatsink are not needed so after market is definitely not.
Back in the days of ddr1/2 thing did get hot when overclockers. But now days unless your using LN2 and going for world records there just not needed.

I run my 2400mhz corsair lpx without the heatsink to fit under a cooler, and overclocked to 3200mhz 1.45v without a problem.

 

[morbid42]

Thanks both, good to know and il save my money