ram heatsinks

[icon_of_sin]

Do heatsinks on ram do anything more that provide a convinient handle?

[-=SOF=-WID99]

depends on the ram and the PC cooling involved in your case really if your asking do heatsinls on ram help .. yes .. but they need to be kept cool , just like any other heatsink

[Sapph]

They are more of an visual thing. But some do actually help with cooling them.
And for some it's of course a way to have lights attached on it.

[MancSoulja]

The idea of RAM heat sinks are just to provide a little more surface area to cool the RAM.

[_I_]

ram does not get hot enough to worry about
its heatsinks are purely decorative

even with high clocked ram it can run without heatsinks

1. look at how closely ram can be installed together on a mobo
2. airflow from stock cpu cooler is blocked/deflected by the first dimm

you can buy ram with leds and/or heatsinks or watercooling barbs

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Originally posted by _I_:

ram does not get hot enough to worry about
its heatsinks are purely decorative

even with high clocked ram it can run without heatsinks

1. look at how closely ram can be installed together on a mobo
2. airflow from stock cpu cooler is blocked/deflected by the first dimm

you can buy ram with leds and/or heatsinks or watercooling barbs

So then why do the companies selling ram at 4266, 4333, 4400, 4500, and 4600 mhz include fans with their kits? Surely if ram didn't get hot enough to need heatsinks, then it wouldn't need a fan either, by your logic.

[Serrigond]

when overclocking the heatsinks help keep the ram cool. If not overclocking they wont do much.

[_I_]

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

Originally posted by _I_:

ram does not get hot enough to worry about
its heatsinks are purely decorative

even with high clocked ram it can run without heatsinks

1. look at how closely ram can be installed together on a mobo
2. airflow from stock cpu cooler is blocked/deflected by the first dimm

you can buy ram with leds and/or heatsinks or watercooling barbs

So then why do the companies selling ram at 4266, 4333, 4400, 4500, and 4600 mhz include fans with their kits? Surely if ram didn't get hot enough to need heatsinks, then it wouldn't need a fan either, by your logic.

again, for decoration
you can buy the same dim kit without the fan

[vadim]

DDR4@3200MHz could consume only about 5W at worst condition (memory testing). An average consumption is significantly lower. So, no, RAM doesn't need heatsinks/heatspreaders at all. It can easily survive constant work at 90-95 C, which it never reach (my RAM is about 50C in games). Heatsinks are pure marketing. You never really need them.

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Originally posted by vadim:

DDR4@3200MHz could consume only about 5W at worst condition (memory testing). An average consumption is significantly lower. So, no, RAM doesn't need heatsinks/heatspreaders at all. It can easily survive constant work at 90-95 C, which it never reach (my RAM is about 50C in games). Heatsinks are pure marketing. You never really need them.

Try taking the heatsinks off your ram and run it without it and then see if it still runs 50c in games.

[vadim]

Originally posted by Impending Rentacle Tape:

Try taking the heatsinks off your ram and run it without it and then see if it still runs 50c in games.

It has no heatsinks. There are a lot of RAM without it. Even high-speed like that: http://www.geil.com.tw/products/showSpec/id/516

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Every pre-build and server out there uses RAM without Heat-Spreaders folks...
You do not "need" it

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Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Every pre-build and server out there uses RAM without Heat-Spreaders folks...
You do not "need" it

There's also not a server cpu that exists that can run ram above 2866 Mhz. That's why they don't use it because they don't need it. Also what about older servers that used Fully Buffered ram that ran much hotter than we have today. It definitely needed it.

[vadim]

Explain me, please, how 4133 MHz DIMMs which I posted link for, can work without heatspreaders and not overheat?

[Spanky]

Heating the ram will cause data loss. Keeping it cool will protect the memory. If it comes with no heatsinks, it is usually not very fast ram. If ram modules come with heatsinks, it will need it. Manufactories add to the aesthetics of heatsinks to make it more appealing too.

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Originally posted by vadim:

Explain me, please, how 4133 MHz DIMMs which I posted link for, can work without heatspreaders and not overheat?

No one said they won't overheat. They'll probably run in the 80's or 90's C and work just fine. Run super hot, but they'll work. That's not to say it's especially good or healthy for them to run like that long-term, but it won't immediately kill the ram, at least not right away.