painting ram?

[louddifference]

so im planning on a all white and black build with the nzxt s340 and msi krait mobo.

 

right now my ram is blue and i want to paint it white. if i use plastidip will it affect proformance in any way?

[samcool55]

It should be fine! But tbh i would take ram with a thermal probe in it, just to be sure the temps are fine. But tbh i won't be too worried about performance, it should work perfect if there's no heat issue.

[olback]

color dosnt affect peformance?

[JoaoPRSousa]

No. Take the heatspreaders out and paint them with white Plastidip.

[Interfectorem]

It won't affect performance at all, just make sure that the coat isn't too thick just to be safe.

[W-L]

so im planning on a all white and black build with the nzxt s340 and msi krait mobo.

 

right now my ram is blue and i want to paint it white. if i use plastidip will it affect proformance in any way?

 

Nope nothing to worry about since RAM is low heat output there isn't any worry about painting over the heatsink unlike a CPU cooler or something else like that, you also have the advantage of peeling it off if you need to RMA or change it to another build.

[Extingquish]

It shouldn't affect performance, unless you manage to break it of course

[louddifference]

No. Take the heatspreaders out and paint them with white Plastidip.

i ment plastidiping the heat spreaders themselves

[jbr]

Of course it will effect performance on the ability for the them to dissipate heat.

 

So long is it's very thin it won't be a very negative effect.

[W-L]

i ment plastidiping the heat spreaders themselves

 

I would suggest taking off the heatspreader to paint with palsti-dip since you won't have to mask over the PCB or contacts to prevent plasti-sip from getting on it. Most cases it's just a matter of warming up the thermal adhesive with a hair dryer or very low setting on heat gun to make separating the adhesive easier.

[JoaoPRSousa]

i ment plastidiping the heat spreaders themselves

 

That's what I said...

 

The no was for the performance loss BTW.

[-ism]

You can plastidip both your RAM and their heatspreaders. I see no reason to paint the RAM because the heatspreaders will be over the top of the RAM, but hey. It will make such a negligible difference in regards to temps.

 

If you do go ahead and do it, welcome to the plastidip club. I did my mobo.

[Jade]

Of course it will effect performance on the ability for the them to dissipate heat.

 

So long is it's very thin it won't be a very negative effect.

Pretty sure he's asking if it'd affect the performance of the RAM itself, and even then, heat spreaders in most cases aren't even necessary.