RAM Heat spreader. what are the chances?

I recently bought 1 GIG of ram But forgot to get the "HeatSpreader". What might happen to my ram if i never get this heatspreader? and What does a heatspreader do to protect your ram?

I've never used one of those... Never had any problems either.

it basically does what the name says... it spreads the heat from one part of the memmory and desperses it out from the whole stick

and nothing should happen to it unless you are overclocking then u might want to have em

Heat spreaders are basically all hype. They make memory modules look better, provide a tiny increase in cooling, and give the company more advertising space. Don't worry, you don't need them.

Ok thats good. thanks!

ummmm no....in lil apps and just gamming u wont do anything to heat them up but in my case i have them on each 1Gb Stick and a fan to boot and they are still running around 100F.....like with most posts i post,i say if u are not going to do more than like web stuff and gaming then u should be ok but if u do ANYTHING more i would be at the store getting some for each stick,if i was you....but ONCE AGAIN,thats just me

RAM does not require heat sinks.



Do you have any proof that heat spreaders are useful? Sure, you may get a few degress drop in temperature with them, but it won't help your performance or stability. RAM modules simply don't get hot enough.

i don't have them AND a fan for nothing,i take them off and they go up to 132F..turn the fan off and it went to 140F, i turned it off because they WILL toast with out them(which i don't want).......heat sinks were used on high end servers and workstation RAM for many years before they got RAM to the public that was fast enough and expensive enough that they put the heat sinks on the RAM for every day computers to keep them from frying(in high end places)....plus,if u read ANYTHING i said u would of heard me say that most people(like u) don't do enough high end app. running and rendering and editing to use the RAM enough to push it,i do and with out my heat sinks i would FOR SURE fry my RAM sticks...my old ram went bad and i am pretty sure it was a heat overload because THEY DIDNT HAVE THEM...

and P.S.,mine do not have "ads" on them..........

ANYWAYS.....EliteHunter
what i am saying as i do in most forms,if u are going to do web stuff some gaming and stuff like that then don't worry about the heat..but if u plan on doing any more than that,play it safe and get the sinks for your RAM,because all it takes is one time of even a few secs of heat greater than what they are meant to take and *POOF* your $150+ stick is done for......if u had just a 256 stick or something then it would not be to bad because they are not to much if it dose fry to get a new one,but a gig is where it starts to get up there in price,as u know....

The ONLY!!!! time you will >>>>>NEED!!!!<<<<< a heat spreader is when using RD ram, aka "RIMM" this ram gets very hot and only runs 1 chip at a time; the heat is then spread down the heatspreader too all of the other chips, this stops the ram from overheating and eventually causing long term damage to itself. Overclocking does not require heatspreaders, no G.Skill ram is sold with heatspreaders and this is some of the best overclocking ram in the world. GDDR3 on grapfics cards runs hotter than normal ram and therefore would be recomendable to put small "ramsinks" on it. Other than this heatspreaders are not needed. Hope this sorts some things out. I have heatspreaders on my ram though, makes me feel good....

Kingston HyperX has the heat spreaders. I use it because its perdy and blue. And all the women go, "ooh your ram is blue".

will.....hmmm..i......dang....

Ya know, my Fiance said the same thing.

LOL!......that funny..

Slow day at work so I'm cruising the board and chit-chatting on the phone before she has to do her rounds. I was laughing about the post and I told her about it and was just like, "Yeah so, you only said yes because I had blue ram in my computers". She kinda paused for a second and went "I.... uhhh...hrmm... yeah, okay"

will...i think i need to pick up some blue ones then..just to hear some say that would be worth it..lol...mine are silver now,but not to many woman like silver,i guess...lol...