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What do you guys think of copper heat spreaders for memory? Do they work, or just look cool?
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Copper heat spreaders?
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They probabably work a little bit. However, I would wager they're more for looks.
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if you feel your ram, and its HOT ... then it would serve a purpose. Other than that, it's just for looks.
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I agree...my RAM doesn't even get warm...I have a LOT of air blowing across them though...although when I get my PC2700, I will get some silver heat spreaders (just for looks mainly)
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This Geil I am using came with copper heatspreaders but they dont even get warm, so I'm saying they dont do much more than look good. Decent airflow in your case is much more important than pretty shiny memory heatspreaders 
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They cool a little better than the TT Aluminum Ram Coolers. I would switch to them but I think that would void my Corsair warrenty
I had a stick of Geil PC2700 Ultra it looked really nice but it needed more than 2.9 to get anywhere. So I guess when pushing your ram over 2.8 volts these copper ramsinks would come in handy.
I had a stick of Geil PC2700 Ultra it looked really nice but it needed more than 2.9 to get anywhere. So I guess when pushing your ram over 2.8 volts these copper ramsinks would come in handy.
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melon_stunner said:They cool a little better than the TT Aluminum Ram Coolers. I would switch to them but I think that would void my Corsair warrenty
I had a stick of Geil PC2700 Ultra it looked really nice but it needed more than 2.9 to get anywhere. So I guess when pushing your ram over 2.8 volts these copper ramsinks would come in handy.
I can get this particular stick of Geil to do more than the Corsair in your SIG at default voltage, actually undervolted thx to Abit, and yes I am as surprised as you about it. I only bought this stick so I could say Geil sux, but I cant say it
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These seem to be more for looks just my 2cents.JS
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LOL that's what I run at normally I'm 100% sure I can get it to 455 on 2.5 volts my cpu cooling isn't too good though. Nevertheless, I bought my stick for $79.99 so I'm happy with my stick regardless.
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melon_stunner said:
I paid $105 for a 512mb pc3200ultra stick from Newegg refurb
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Personally, though nothing against you but some sticks of Geil memory really f*$%ing suck a$$. Unless, you buy the top of the line Geil, which you did in your case, everything else is going to be sh*t or near sh*t. My PC2700 ultra stick was a rebaged stick of PC2100 Samsung and no wonder they void your warrenty if you take off the heatsinks b/c they don't use their own ram in ALL their sticks of memory. I'm just warning all you that are thinking about sticks of Geil or OCZ. "You get what you pay for."
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its all eye candy - good airflow will suit until they bring out some mega burny hot memory
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my ocsystem memory doesn't get hot. i can even see huge gaps between the tape and the chips. to bad the life time warranty is void if i remove it. i guess they don't want me to find out what kind of chips they are using.
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