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I have had the heat spreaders fall off the memory and looking to get them reattached. What exactly material do I need to attach them back.?
 
What exactly are you doing with your system that made them fall off ? Moving it around, overheating it, or subjecting it to strong vibrations on a regular basis ? Just curious why this happened....

A few very small drops of rubber cement strategically placed so that they don't cause any short circuits should hold them in place, if they are the type that were glued on originally..

If they were the type that fits over the top of the stick with only tension to hold them on, just squeeze the edges back together and hold for a moment, then re-attach them
 
bonehead123 said:
What exactly are you doing with your system that made them fall off ? Moving it around, overheating it, or subjecting it to strong vibrations on a regular basis ? Just curious why this happened....

A few very small drops of rubber cement strategically placed so that they don't cause any short circuits should hold them in place, if they are the type that were glued on originally..

If they were the type that fits over the top of the stick with only tension to hold them on, just squeeze the edges back together and hold for a moment, then re-attach them
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My son had taken them off and used third party memory coolers. I tried to put them back on. He had heated them up with blow dryer and remove them. After me trying to put them back on and hold them for a bit did not stay on. I figured used thermal tape but that was not the best option.
 
If you are just going to run them stock 1.35v don't worry about the heatspreaders.
If you are wanting to OC with 1.4v+ just aim a fan at them without heat spreaders.
There temperature can be viewed with hwmonitor and there maximum OC can decrease a little at around 45-50c.
 
Clean both the spreaders and ics with the highest percentage isopropyl alcohol you can get at the grocery store. Make sure to get all of the old adhesive off. Be careful with the ics, gently vs hamfisting it. Get some quality thermaltape in the size you need and reattache the spreaders. If they wont stick initially. warm the tape up with a hairdryer for a minute or two keeping the dryer moving and retry.
 
Just use the Arctic cooling Thermal adhesive. It provides great thermal conductivity and they will never come off again !!!
 
This memory is amazing. Overclocked to 4000 MHZ on my 9900K and gigabyte X390 Motherboard.
 
If you continue to increase voltage they will probably go alot higher. 1.55-1.6ish with a fan blowing on them should get them 43-4800. Most high binned b die scales really really well on z390 chipsets. Your mb will probably crap out before the memory will.
 
years ago I used AS5 with a drop of crazy glue to attach some ram sinks to my previous 6870. so that is my suggestion (works fucking amazing well...not sure with other thermal paste, should be the same, though one does not need 100% perfection for ram sinks)

Trick worked like gangbusters, can almost hang your weight off them little ram sinks (been rock solid for years now) not to mention it actually cools far better than "stock" for idle and load temps (recovery time between sped up as well)

they also have a glue remover if ever feel the need to take them off again, a little drop will do er ^.^

odd they would come off, I would have expected "highest end" to be soldered on (unless is just a "slip cover" that gives that nice look) while the dimm stays "untouched" (so they or users can swap the shall for something else if want) ?
 
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