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Hi guys, I was gifted 8GB (2x4) of Corsair Vengeance but the huge heatsinks would not fit under mu cpu cooler.

 

I removed them and have left the RAM naked. I have ordered small heatsinks from China but it will be a couple of weeks getting here.

 

My question is, does it matter, does ddr3 get got running at stock speeds ? 

 

Are the heatsinks more for show than anything else and am I ok to leave them naked for a couple of weeks ?

 

They seem to be running ok with my 2x4 Kingston HyperX but they have different voltages and timings.

 

The Kingston uses 1.65v and the Corsair 1.5v so I just set the bios to use 1.65v.

 

Thanks.

Nothing to see here - move along.

 

 

 

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It will get warm like anything that has electricity flowing through it does but it won't cause an issue unless you're ambient is absurdly high and you have poor case airflow.

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DDR3 doesn't get hot. RAM doesn't need heat spreaders any more, they're just for show. I'm running 4x4GB of RAM without heat spreaders right now.

 

Why no heat spreaders ?  Is it the same reason as myself.

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Why no heat spreaders ?  Is it the same reason as myself.

 

It's a special computer and I needed really low profile memory for it. The stuff I'm using is shorter than the clips on the DIMM slots :) And I don't like the look of most of them anyway.

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