I'm still not DDR4-ized but do memory chips really need heat sinks/spreaders then or now?
They've never gotten hot except when something's really wrong... There may be localized heating but not much in the chip can change state at any one time so activity is quite low on average.
Why post? Well I should have added this to the "What Pisses You Off" thread. With the heatspreader on, it makes it that much harder to tell if a module is ECC or buffered, the latter being a huge problem.
Very odd that adding buffers makes the RAM module cheaper... I guess supply and demand has their ways.
They've never gotten hot except when something's really wrong... There may be localized heating but not much in the chip can change state at any one time so activity is quite low on average.
Why post? Well I should have added this to the "What Pisses You Off" thread. With the heatspreader on, it makes it that much harder to tell if a module is ECC or buffered, the latter being a huge problem.
Very odd that adding buffers makes the RAM module cheaper... I guess supply and demand has their ways.
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