Ripjaw heat spreader

[steveoz]

Hi Guys,

The Raijintek Pallas turned up for my SFF xeon build, but sadly it won't clear the first DDR slot with the Ripjaw in.

I want to use this cooler, and I am not going to buy more ram, so I have a few options:

a) Cut the top of the heat spreader down (3-5mm should be plenty off of the top 'fins')

b) Remove the heat spreader and replace with a lower profile one

C) Remove the heat spreader totally and just leave it


What would you do?

TBH the RAM is probably worth like 15-20 a stick so it's not exactly going to be an issue modifying it (I doubt anyone would want to buy them later if I changed the system but hey).

Also really does it need the heat spreader and is it worth buying another?


Cheers!

 

[steveoz]

All good quickly decided to take matters into my own had, remembered I had some thermal take Pc133 spreaders out of a really old build, they are the perfect size.

Heated up the ripjaws and removed the original heat spreader and just going to sit these on it

 

[mmj_uk]

C.

Unless you're going to run with a dangerously high voltage then heatspreaders are a hangover from a bygone era, they exist mainly for marketing purposes nowadays.

 

[steveoz]

C.

Unless you're going to run with a dangerously high voltage then heatspreaders are a hangover from a bygone era, they exist mainly for marketing purposes nowadays.

Thanks for that, I did wonder tbh, I have never seen RAM get hot other than if a system has poor airflow and the actual heat in the machine is heating up the RAM!