The short story:
So the basic question is, when memory is under full load, are heat spreaders/heatsinks worthwhile on DDR4? The cost difference is about $30 US between models with and without them.
The long story:
I'm helping a friend build a computer for 3D rendering and we decided on jumping in to the X99 world. While going through the parts list and memory reviews online I couldn't help but notice there seemed to be no difference between the G.Skill Ripjaw Value and the G.Skill Ripjaw 4 Series aside from the Value memory having no heat spreaders. One site review even took the heat spreaders off of the Ripjaw 4 for and noted that they used the same chips as the Value Memory.
I know DDR3 heat spreaders were shown to be pretty much purely for ornamentation, and in semi recent memory only really Rambus showed a legitimate reason for having them when running at stock speeds. I'm just starting to look in to DDR4 so I'm not sure how well it distributes heat.
Specific models I'm looking at are
G.Skill Ripjaw 4 Series
and
G.Skill Ripjaw Value
OCing the memory isn't going to happen as we're more concerned with system stability (she's about 100 miles away) than with squeezing out a small percentage of real world performance increase.
So the basic question is, when memory is under full load, are heat spreaders/heatsinks worthwhile on DDR4? The cost difference is about $30 US between models with and without them.
The long story:
I'm helping a friend build a computer for 3D rendering and we decided on jumping in to the X99 world. While going through the parts list and memory reviews online I couldn't help but notice there seemed to be no difference between the G.Skill Ripjaw Value and the G.Skill Ripjaw 4 Series aside from the Value memory having no heat spreaders. One site review even took the heat spreaders off of the Ripjaw 4 for and noted that they used the same chips as the Value Memory.
I know DDR3 heat spreaders were shown to be pretty much purely for ornamentation, and in semi recent memory only really Rambus showed a legitimate reason for having them when running at stock speeds. I'm just starting to look in to DDR4 so I'm not sure how well it distributes heat.
Specific models I'm looking at are
G.Skill Ripjaw 4 Series
and
G.Skill Ripjaw Value
OCing the memory isn't going to happen as we're more concerned with system stability (she's about 100 miles away) than with squeezing out a small percentage of real world performance increase.