Question about Card touching RAM

[MultiDJRoni]

Hey

 

So i just bought an MSI RTX 2080ti gaming x trio. 

 

I have mounted the card vertical, but now i noticed that the backplate has direct contact with the RAM. (Its some corsair ram, dunno what exactly. if needed i can look it up)

Should that be no problem?

The card does not bend, but im more concerned about the heat. 

 

Thanks for the Info!

 

Pics: https://imgur.com/a/tk0kcBJ

[mariushm]

It shouldn't be a problem.

I'd put a bit of electrical tape or paper or anything that behaves as insulator between the two metals just to be extra careful.

 

[Cryptonite]

10 hours ago, MultiDJRoni said:

Hey

 

So i just bought an MSI RTX 2080ti gaming x trio. 

 

I have mounted the card vertical, but now i noticed that the backplate has direct contact with the RAM. (Its some corsair ram, dunno what exactly. if needed i can look it up)

Should that be no problem?

The card does not bend, but im more concerned about the heat. 

 

Thanks for the Info!

 

Pics: https://imgur.com/a/tk0kcBJ

it's fine, it's just two "backplates" touching. it's not like either of them have direct contact with one another, only with the metal plating around them.

[mariushm]

In theory, they're heatsinks and they should not be connected to live voltages... in the worst case they would be connected to ground.

 

But for example, if you're really unlucky and some component on the back side of your video card card blows up in such a specific way that live electricity would jump over  to the heatsink (back plate), then that electricity would be transferred to the heatsink of the ram and... most likely nothing would happen because the ram heatsink is not connected to anything... but in really extreme/rare cases,  electricity could jump on the components on the ram stick or the gold finger (the pins) of the ram stick and could damage the ram stick and from there, it could damage the motherboard.

The video card itself has fuses and protections on it, so it would not damage the motherboard through the slot, but if you're really unlucky and something goes really bad, you could in an indirect way damage other components.

 

So that's why my advice is to be better safe than sorry and make sure electricity doesn't pass between part. A simple piece of kapton tape (thin, transparent, a gold tint), or electrical tape (ugly), or a piece of paper, all of these are insulators, so you won't have electrical contact between the back plate and the ram heatsink. 

Kapton tape will also have side benefit that it's a really poor heat conductor, so the heat on the backplate would not transfer into the memory heatsink easily. Though backplates are rarely very hot.

[MultiDJRoni]

Sorry for the late response.

 

Thank you very much for answering, i really appreciate it. Prob. will add a little bit of electrical tape to be safe. 

Have a good day, best regards