RAM heatsinks, worth it?

Mortah · 25 Apr 2006 at 19:43

Are RAM heatsinks worth buying? (I'm on about those ones that slip over the RAM). Just thinking about FSB overclocking / tweaking CAS latencies

gr1mey · 25 Apr 2006 at 19:57

Ive read a couple of articles on this; and the general concensus seems to be that they are a medium for companies to brandish their logoes on the side of high performance RAM. The thermal gains are little on them.

thats what Ive read anyway...

iraiguana · 25 Apr 2006 at 20:23

at most couple mhz is ment to be the effect of them. from what i have read. really not worth it unless u dying to get the max out of ure ram in which case u would have got nicer stuff with ram sinks.

Chiribo · 25 Apr 2006 at 21:51

I recently got some TwinMos ram from the MM which has heatsinks. I personaly am not in a great favor of these purely because if I touch the ram stick after the PC has been under stress for a while, they feel very hot to the touch, while the ram sticks which aren't covered with such a heat spreader, feel a lot cooler.

So to me personaly having such "heatsinks" is just a faster way of destroying your ram rather than improving performance on them, unless ofcourse you have a 120mm fan right above the ram cooling them maybe ;\

Duke · 25 Apr 2006 at 21:55

Just have a silent 80mm/92mm case fan blowing over the motherboard (ram/chipset) and it will keep it a lot cooler than putting on ram sinks (with no direct airflow).

Manifest · 26 Apr 2006 at 15:19

Chiribo said:
I recently got some TwinMos ram from the MM which has heatsinks. I personaly am not in a great favor of these purely because if I touch the ram stick after the PC has been under stress for a while, they feel very hot to the touch, while the ram sticks which aren't covered with such a heat spreader, feel a lot cooler.

So to me personaly having such "heatsinks" is just a faster way of destroying your ram rather than improving performance on them, unless ofcourse you have a 120mm fan right above the ram cooling them maybe ;\

Well i guess the one with the heat spreader would be hotter cause it would be taking more heat away?

Mortah you should have done a search, ive seen exactly the same post as this like three times already this month with the same debated outcome.

My advice is if u like the way they look then dont worry about it.

h2ocooler · 27 Apr 2006 at 00:54

Well my system is watercooled, when up at 3.2GHz i used to get the occasional BSOD, more so when the cooling fans were down low, got some thermaltake ram sinks (the ones with the flashy lights :rolleyes:

) as i touched the Ram one day and it was very hot, now no BSOD's so yes i think they help, very least they do is stop hotspots.
Just my 2p's worth