Heat Spreader on Half-Height RAMs

anonemus

I have these half-height RAMs from Kingston. Is it helpful to put heat spreaders when I overclock from 800Mhz to 900Mhz?

Kingston VLP

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:32:27 Post Subject:

Probably not necessary really. That isn't too extreme and the heat probably doesn't warrant it.

What do you use them for? A low profile module would be a better idea for me in that car pc, but I jam a full height stick in there.

sbrehm72255 · Posted: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:47:35 Post Subject:

As long as you have semi good air flow in your chassis heat spreaders aren't really needed for that type of OC IMHO.

anonemus · Posted: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:27:56 Post Subject:

@ Jason -- I use them in my main rig. They're the cheapest available I could find. I think they're ideal for HTPC and car PC. Here's the newegg link:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134636

@sbrehm72255-- yeah, I agree. It might just be useless with the moderate OC I do. Last night I was able to OC to 900Mhz with just the stock 1.8v.

One advantage of putting the heatspreaders is I can easily take out and put back in the half-height modules.

I'm just worried that if it doesn't help much, will it harm my RAMs?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:30:50 Post Subject:

You linked to a big module... After looking at this I actually bought a half height 1GB module this morning... $12 shipped from Newegg. Nutty!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134634

anonemus · Posted: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:44:25 Post Subject:

Did you read the customers' review on the link I posted? They seem to be talking about half-heights

Will you put heatspreaders on yours Grin

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:21:56 Post Subject:

I won't be putting heatspreaders on. No room for them, and I don't think they're necessary. Check out this look at DDR2 heatspreaders...

http://www.btxformfactor.com/item/39/1.php

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Very interesting results, wonder if OCZ saw it and commented on the temps...

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:22:38 Post Subject:

anonemus · Posted: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:34:32 Post Subject:

I did some more online research on topic like you posted and so I decided not to put heatspreaders anymore. It's not practical for the very minimal OC that I do Smile