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Ordinary silicone rubber sealant. I've found that it conducts heat better than thermal tape and sticks better, too, yet you can remove it easily by slicing through with a razor.I was able to remove the heat spreaders from some low profile ECC DDR3 DIMMs. What would be a good replacement TIM? Can i just use some non-conductive TIM that I'll end up getting for my new heaksink or do I need TIM pads?
But unless you're overclocking the RAM, why bother with heat spreaders on it?
larrymoencurly said:Ordinary silicone rubber sealant.
larrymoencurly said:Ordinary silicone rubber sealant.
3M made or used to make silicone rubber sealant for solar hot water panels, to go between the copper pipes and the channels they snapped into. I saw this in the paperwork for the panels we had at our old house. The panels were designed by AZ State and were widely sold as kits in the 1980s. Apparently the 3M silicone sealant was nothing special thermally but was made to not out-gas much because that would fog up the glazing of he solar panels.That's the first time I've ever seen that suggested. Interesting. Where did you come up with this idea? Seen it done elsewhere, or your own creation? Your heat transfer assertion...opinion or documented.
I'm asking because it would indeed be an easy, affordable and available option if the heat transfer properties are validated.
3M made or used to make silicone rubber sealant for solar hot water panels, to go between the copper pipes and the channels they snapped into. I saw this in the paperwork for the panels we had at our old house. The panels were designed by AZ State and were widely sold as kits in the 1980s. Apparently the 3M silicone sealant was nothing special thermally but was made to not out-gas much because that would fog up the glazing of he solar panels.
Silicone rubber sheeting is used for electrically insulating heatsinks from transistors and high-power chips, and according to W. Marshall Leach of Leach audio amplfier fame, it works better without thermal paste than mica or Kapton insulators with thermal paste do. I don't know if he said anything about aluminum oxide insulators. I've seen silicone rubber insulators used in Fortron-Source and other brand PSUs, but sometimes with thermal paste applied. Some books about power supply design mention silicone rubber's thermal conduction.
I measured a 3 Celcius temperature difference between the package of an old Intel 740i video chip and its taped-on heatsink. After the heatsink fell off, I removed the tape and replaced it with silicone rubber sealant, and the temperature difference reduced to about 1C. I suspect most of that was because the silicone rubber layer was thinner than the thermal tape, and thinness probably matters more than any other factor. I've seen silicone rubber glue used only in a couple of commerical products, both small cards that were probably from security or fire alarm controllers. .
what's better, 2000mhz with stock timings or 1866 with tighter timings?
Depends how much tighter the timings are. If you're doing 10-10-10-24 @ 1866 vs 11-11-11-28 @ 2000, I'm confident you'll get a more bandwidth from 2000. Are you having trouble getting them stable @ 2133, with stock timings?
Yeah, prime keeps failing over 2000 and I cant even boot at 2133 with all 4 DIMMs installed. I can boot with 2 DIMMs at 2200, but its not stable.
I might have to put my CPU down to stock speed and try again.
I'm getting these for the following build
CPU Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5 GHz - BX80637I73770K
MoBo ASUS Maximus V EXTREME LGA 1155 Intel Z77
CPU Cooler Corsair H100
PSU KINGWIN Lazer Platinum Series LZP-550 550W ATX 12V 80 PLUS PLATINUM PSU
GPU ASUS GTX680 DirectCU II TOP - GTX680-DC2T-2GD5
RAM SAMSUNG 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1600 - MV-3V4G3D/US 30nm
SSD SAMSUNG 830 2.5" 512GB SATA III MLC Desktop Upgrade Kit MZ-7PC512D/AM
HDD 1tb HDD
Case Corsair Special Edition White Graphite Series 600T ATX Mid
Thermal Paste Prolimatech PK-1 Nano Aluminum Thermal Compound - 5 Gram
Fan Filters DEMCiflex Corsair 600T Magnetic Dust / Fan Filter Set - 4 Piece
Fans BitFenix Spectre Pro 200mm Fan - All White (BFF-LPRO-20025WW-RP)
Fans BitFenix Spectre LED 200mm Fan - Red (BFF-BLF-20020R-RP)
Does anyone have any input how the memory modules work with a Asrock z77 extreme 4?
Just want to make sure that the Samsung ram is compatible with the Asrock z77 extreme 4. It's not listed on there compatibility sheet but doesn't mean it will not work. I just want to confirm that there will be no issues specially when it comes to overclocking.
Will the MV-3V4G3D/US sticks work with an Asus P8Z77-M Pro? I ask because the memory is not listed in the qualified vendors list for the specific motherboard.
Is there a guide somewhere showing how to overclock these sticks? I just got a pair and have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to OCing RAM. Right now I have them running at the Asus optimized default, which is probably crappy.
Hey how you all doing? I'm new to the forum. I was wondering if any of you knew was this ram in not available at most retailers anymore? Most sites say it is discontinued.
Yup, brick-and-mortar is the way to go for these sticks. I just recently picked up a new pair from Walmart.Don't look at online stores. Physically go to stores like microcenter, you may get one.