>2016 >using RAM without a copper tube glued to the top

What's the point?

>>56169927
To prevent you from using a large CPU heatsink. The RAM clearly is more important because it gets way hotter.

>>56169870
>2017-1
>not cooling your ran with liquid nitrogen

>>56169995

/thread

>>56169870
topkek

>>56169870
>2016
>using ddr2 ram

>>56170108
Copper>quality/functional/comparability/speed

>>56169870
Motherfucker RAM chips are huge and only use like half a watt to a watt a each they dont need sinks or spreaders or tubes or anythingwe used to run 10w processors sinkless fuck a fan now every little shit thing needs some kind of metal on it holy shit balls.

VRAM needs cooling at high clocks but thats completely different.

>>56169927
Every RAM vendor has access to the same DRAM chips. Only a small handful of companies in the world are producing DRAM. Samsung, Hynix, Micron, etc. So your companies like Crucial, OCZ, Corsair, G.Skill and others all buy the exact same chips, no one has a leg up on anyone else. If they all want to buy the most expensive bleeding edge highest binned chips they can. They'll all sell the exact same memory with the exact same specs.
Because they can't compete with each other on specs they rely entirely on physical appearance and marketing. So we end up with "gamer" products that have absurd flashy heat sinks on them.

>>56169870
I am not retarded.

There's no need to.

ECC RAM never comes with gayming heatsinks yet it's the actual top of the line.

Because I have RDRAM. Rambus 4tw

>not buying the cheapest RAM you can get because it's all the same

>>56169870
a cooler would make it harder to see the LEDs on the RAM

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>>56172746
>muh ecc
enjoy your high wind resistance at high speeds because no fins etc.

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>>56172746
>ECC RAM never comes with gayming heatsinks yet it's the actual top of the line.
Actually it isnt uncommon to see on LRDIMMs, pic related - a 64GB module.

Does ram actually need the heatsink? I'm using mine in single channel mode because the heatsink doesn't fit under the cooler.

>>56173549
>Does ram actually need the heatsink?
generally no except for modules dense enough like LRDIMMs

>I'm using mine in single channel mode because the heatsink doesn't fit under the cooler.
buy a heatsink which isnt shit

>>56173473
looks like the $5 heatsinks I have somethere

no doubt they're probably helping, but this is for 64 GB after all

>>56169870

Unnecessary.

>>56173567

Single channel doesn't really matter.

http://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/1349-ram-how-dual-channel-works-vs-single-channel

>>56174633
>I wish I had quad channel
>I wish I had enough coars to use it all

>>56174645

Most plebs aren't going to have workloads that hammer ram enough for the extra bandwdith to matter. Though I guess if you did quad data rate ram (fuck knows if anyone actually makes it - though the spec exists) would be dead handy, though thats probably balls deep in server territory.

>>56174672
>Most plebs aren't going to have workloads that hammer ram enough for the extra bandwdith to matter.
But i'm not most plebs, see:
>>56174411
>>56174468

>Though I guess if you did quad data rate ram
quad channel, not data rate

>though thats probably balls deep in server territory.
Dual E5-2660v2s with 160GB of DDR3 ECC RDIMMs

>>56174710

>not data rate

To be pedantic quad data rate mram exists.

>Quad Data Rate (QDR) SRAM is a type of static RAM computer memory that can transfer up to four words of data in each clock cycle.

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>>56169995
>cooling your ran
>ran

>>56174633
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-is-it-finally-time-to-upgrade-your-core-i5-2500k
It does.

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>>56175328

I guess you didn't actually read either the gamersnexus article or the digital foundry one either did you?

Hint: one article is about single vs dual channel, the other is about ram speed.

>>56169870
>ddr2
>not ddr4

are you poor?

>>56169927
to match whatever design your going for
RAM is RAM but some people dont like green pcbs in a RGB rainbow skittles case

>>56174633
>Single channel doesn't really matter.
It does if you aren't playing games.

>>56175409
So do you think 2x4GB at 2133MHz will give the same results in gaming as 1X8GB at 2133MHz?

Literally no excuse not to be.

>>56175672
if you believe this you should be a retard, search dual channel vs single-

>>56175409
Memory bandwidth is a function of interface width and frequency.
Adding channels increases bandwidth.
Increasing frequency increases bandwidth.
Games that heavily hit system RAM want bandwidth.

Stop talking out of your ass about things you don't fully understand.

>>56169870
my RAM is undervolted, from 1.5V to 1.35V... so it doesn't get hot at all