ram sinks, please help

[Zeke]

What cools ram better? Those entire sheets like what come standard with corsair, kingston, mushkin, etc. Or those little siks that go onto each invidual module of the ram?

 

[Arti]

I'm one of those people who believe ram sinks are useless

 

[Fezdog192]

I personally feel that individual heatsinks can and do make a difference. I use some of the tweakmonster ones on my 9800 pro, and they seem to take off a massive amount of heat. I'm not really sure that those flat heatspreaders do much though. In any case, they can't hurt, and they look sweet.

 

[-PK-]

If you go for a heatspreader go with copper. And for system ram I don't know if indv. heatsinks would even fit on some mobo's, but they do cool better esp on a graphic card.

Another thing to keep in mind is that if your pc case doesn't have good circulation a heatsink/heatspreader wont help you too much.

 

[ChingChang]

I'm one of those people who believe ram sinks are useless

I concur. But I think the individual heatsinks do better than the sheets.

 

[Zeke]

lets see, ram generates a lot of heat, thick pieces of copper/ aluminum absorb lots of heat. These pieces when placed atpo ram absorb the large quantity of heat generated by the ram (ramsinks)

 

[Vulcanus]

system ram doesn't really get that hot though.. :/

On video cards, I'd rather put individual sinks on, as opposed to cards that come with hsfs covering gpu and all the ram in one piece.

As far as system ram, I don't really think it matters, but I do like the heatspreaders for the pretty factor.