Copper Ram Heat Shields

parousia · Oct 1st, 2005, 05:11 PM

OK another question for you brainy people out there......

I see that the top gaming ram, and others have these Copper heat shields that claim to spread the heat to improve ram performance...

You can even buy these shields as an add-on for you existing ram.

Do they really make a Diff?

I googled the "copper ram heat shield" and found places that sell them of course,
but not a lot of info on them.

Anybody know about this?

Parousia

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monokitty · Oct 1st, 2005, 05:18 PM

I've never heard of them improving the RAM's performance, but they certainly spread the heat around so the chip doesn't destroy itself.

parousia · Oct 1st, 2005, 05:48 PM

So in other words they r a waste of money?

Parousia

guytoronto · Oct 1st, 2005, 05:53 PM

Heat is bad. Heat sinks are good. Even on RAM. Some RAM can start acting wonkie if it gets too hot.

contoursvt · Oct 2nd, 2005, 12:37 AM

I wouldnt bother with it. If the computer has decent airflow and if the machine is not running the memory beyond spec (overclocking) then you will never ever need it. Also most of the time, the copper heat spreader attaches to the ram using crappy thermal tape which is very thick so even then the heat transfer is terrible at best. You're almost better not having the heat spreader and once in a while just opening the machine and blowing the dust out of it and making sure the cooling is still optical within the machine.

ehMax · Oct 2nd, 2005, 01:30 AM

If you have a G5 tower that you are going to stack with Ram, heat shields are not a bad idea.

parousia · Oct 2nd, 2005, 01:34 AM

So ehMac you have added ram shields to your tower?

Where did u buy them, and do they snap together or are they taped?

I was not really sure if they would actually make a diff or not in a Tower as they are supposed to be cooled so well anyway.
I mean "ram is guaranteed for life so you would think that they would design it to vent properly to start with" I thought.... educate me.

Parousia

contoursvt · Oct 2nd, 2005, 01:41 AM

Think of how many servers come with cool head spreaders on their ram... Umm I can hardly think of any. Non actually at least none for SDRAM and DDR RAM. RAMBUS needed some heatspreaders but that was in their design spec I think. So if servers that run for years and are packed with ram dont need it, then i'm sure we dont need them

guytoronto · Oct 2nd, 2005, 08:55 AM

That's because previously the machines and RAM didn't run that hot. Remember when CPUs didn't have heat sinks at all?

jonmon · Oct 2nd, 2005, 10:40 AM

they probably won't make a difference unless you overclock your system and change the ram timings, but this is from a pc perspective