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I'm building a new PC. I need an 8GB RAM module for it and I found two, one with a heat spreader and one without. They have a slight difference in price and I am going to be overclocking the system once it's done. My question is, do I need the heat spreader for the RAM, or go without one?

If you're looking to overclock your RAM - which is a pointless idea- then you'd want the heat spreaders, otherwise they don't really do much if you're just overclocking CPU and/or GPU

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I'm building a new PC. I need an 8GB RAM module for it and I found two, one with a heat spreader and one without. They have a slight difference in price and I am going to be overclocking the system once it's done. My question is, do I need the heat spreader for the RAM, or go without one?

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If it's without heat spreader you won't overclock much at all.  :lol:

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Why don't you get two sticks of the same RAM?? The heat spreader is nice, but not necessary in most cases. Are you overclocking the RAM?

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No, but go for the higher quality ones from brands such as SK Hynix (Klevv) , Microm (Crucial) and etc.

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I'm building a new PC. I need an 8GB RAM module for it and I found two, one with a heat spreader and one without. They have a slight difference in price and I am going to be overclocking the system once it's done. My question is, do I need the heat spreader for the RAM, or go without one?

If you're looking to overclock your RAM - which is a pointless idea- then you'd want the heat spreaders, otherwise they don't really do much if you're just overclocking CPU and/or GPU

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If you're looking to overclock your RAM - which is a pointless idea- then you'd want the heat spreaders, otherwise they don't really do much if you're just overclocking CPU and/or GPU

I'm only gonna overclock the CPU and the GPU. So I'm gonna go with the one without the heat spreaders then.

 

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Not so much with newer RAM in recent computers, but with DDR2 800 for example, if you want to go much higher than 820MHz, you need heatspreaders.

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