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question about heat spreaders on ram?

im ordering Dual Channel Memory (2 x 1024MB) kit

im just replacing the slower ram with this faster pc6400 ram

its just in my hp and i do a very small amount of gaming with it, i shouldn't ram with heat spreaders should i? i wont be an issue will it?

Update:

so then i dont need them right?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Heatspreaders just reduce heat on your ram, nothing else, they're not necessary unless you plan to overclock your memory which isn't very safe even if you know what you're doing. So they won't cause any issues at all.

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