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Corsair...Reg Ver vs. Platinum edition
- Thread starter pirate252
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its just the color. you can read it from the manufactures at the corsair forums
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nice, I was wondering myself what it meant. I was originally thinking something about temp dispertion and stuff.
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i belive that heatspreaders on system ram dont help anyways....
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Xevuhtess7 said:
I dont know, with my crucial pc2100 DDR, back when i only had 1 stick, i couldnt get any higher than about 155 cas2. I put a fan over it, and then i was able to get to 166 cas2. I added heatsinks and was able to run it at 174 cas2 (the rest of my system didnt like it though). So either the cooling made a difference, or it was just that i felt comefortable upping the voltage another notch i dont know, but cooling the ram did help my overclock.
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Tipycol said:
I think this theory may have been true when the 3500 were first released but it is no longer the case. According to their company reps, the Platinum and regular black sticks perform the same.
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ok i know this is a lil off the subject but i was just looking at ram for my new system and the mobo (abit IT7 max 2 ver2!!!) supports 333 and the chip im getting is a 2.4B so what speed should i go with or what is the formula??? im going to put XMS in there but do know if i should get the 3000, 3200 or the 3500??
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Shoulda started your own thread but here's your answer. Get the 3500 as your P4 will take all the bandwidth it can get. You should be able to overclock the stick pretty well as XMS modules are rated up to 2.8vdimm
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thanks top hat... sorry
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THe heat spreader casing on the Platinum series that I bought can't be removed. It's on there like the casing on RIMMs.
The regular XMS in my new system has heat spreaders that are clipped on in a more conventional way, so you can replace them with, say, a Thermal Take kit.
The regular XMS in my new system has heat spreaders that are clipped on in a more conventional way, so you can replace them with, say, a Thermal Take kit.
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pirate252 said:
wow I take back my last post. I took the clips off my black XMS and the casing is still fixed to the ram. Weird.
I've heard that with video cards, putting it into a freezer inside a anti-static bag for like 10-15mins and then the heatsink will come right off. I don't think there's any reason it won't work on a motherboard, just use the anti-static bag it came in. Another way is to run some type of system intensive application, and after having the system run that for half an hour or so, the heatsink should come off easily.
