Legit Reviews

uh... thoughts or comments anyone?

from the picture you can't really tell whats going on, all I can see is that it looks like they are held by a screw at the top.

looks like alot of companies are using corsair dominator heatspreader style now, without the large spike (best way i can put it with 1 blood-shot eye )

im guessing they finally realized the more space a heatspreader covers, the more heat is spreads? so after corsair did it, everyone is doing it

heatspreaders do nothing. Its been proven. Unless you have water in them like OCZ, they do nothing good airflow can't do.

dicecca112 wrote:heatspreaders do nothing. Its been proven. Unless you have water in them like OCZ, they do nothing good airflow can't do.

Actually corsair proved that more is better as the Pro's and DOMINATOR's do allow for better overclocking than nothing.

right, but if you have a small fan blowing next to them, it'll do more. More manufactures need to do what TeamGroup does, and include the Heatspreaders not attached.

dicecca112 wrote:More manufactures need to do what TeamGroup does, and include the Heatspreaders not attached.

i agree with that 100%, but you also got to remember since companies like Corsair bond the heat spreaders to the module that it can't be done.

ive never heard of that brand. It looks like it was made in a mexican sweat shop.

I would be embarrassed to be seen with memory like that in my computer.

I love your creative bouts trey, you should do more.

Dan

haha

Who cares what it looks like as long as it performs (the macarena)!

dicecca112 wrote:heatspreaders do nothing. Its been proven. Unless you have water in them like OCZ, they do nothing good airflow can't do.

And you've done the research and published the white papers to support that?

Fact: DDR1 might not have seen the huge performance increase that DDR2 does with advanced cooling but it was always there. DDR2 shows a 20-40MHz increase (on the Micron D anyway) with better cooling technologies. Air alone just doesn't cut it.

yeah I have on both DDR systems and DDR2. I added aftermarket heatspreaders to both Corsair Value Ram (BH-5 Chips) and Kingston Value Ram (don't remember the chip) did not result in one extra mhz. I added an 80mm fan over the top and it add 10more mhz. (This was on a NF7-M an Mobile XP 2600). Then on DDR2 I used the current Team Group I have. With heatspreaders I got 5 more mhz than without. A fan blowing over the ram added 25more mhz. (D9MGH chips) Ambients the same in each test. Same Vdimm etc. So yes I do have first hand experience

I could care less what manufactuers say. If I did I won't be overclocking. Fact of the matter is its usually not true. I want what real world performance dictates. If you look at pictures of WR breaking what do you always se? A fan over the memory

go faster stripes!

(or as homer calls them "air holes")

I thought they were "speed holes"

HONkUS wrote:I thought they were "speed holes"

Well the concept is still the same

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HONkUS -> I editted your post by mistake instead of pressing "quote", sorry!

(second time I've done that )

yeah yeah sure, abusing your powers again Ken?

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No, not at all, I just keep clicking "edit" instead of "quote"
that was the first time I actually clicked submit though