G.Skill - Aegis 8GB 3000 mghz. Is that too high a hz without heatspreaders for 4 or 5 years?

[David_24]

I know heatspreaders are nice to have but this one has a heat dissipating sticker! lol
This is the highest mghz 1 stick of 8 gig I could find at a reasonable price. I'm going to get a second stick with a ryzen 1600 in the future but I might one day want to go up to 32 gigabites because i'm desigining my own video games and other content. I know you're supposed to buy your ram in sets but I figure i'll take the risk if I can.


https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/XJYWGX/gskill-aegis-8gb-1-x-8gb-ddr4-3000-memory-f4-3000c16s-8gisb

would I be better off going with 2800 mhz and a heat spreader and overclocking it?
https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/product/9NPzK8/gskill-memory-f42800c15s8gvrb

Also does ram have to be even? like could you get 1 dim of 8 gig, 1 of 16 gigs and 2 or 4 gigs on the same mother board or is that not going to work?

 

[nooneisback]

To start with the overclocking bit, a jump from 2.8k to 3k can increase heat output quite a bit, so you might want to pick a specimen with a heatspreader. On the sidenote, you should also consider lowering the cycles. A high speed ram with a high latency is a bad balance.

If not going with the same kits, you should be aware that the faster sticks will lower their performance to match the rest. Also, you can combine different RAM sizes, but they have to be in separate channels like 4+4 and 8+8 is fine, but 2+4 and 8+8 isn't. It probably will work, but you'll loose 2GB, and you might have to do some serious debugging.

Also, RAM should be one of the least concerns for you. Even DDR3 is just as fast as DDR4, the key differences are a higher maximum memory size per chip and some other stuff that aren't important to an average user.

 

[Zerk2012]

That memory has heat spreaders on it it's just low profile.
Heat sinks are not even needed on todays low voltage memory it's more or less just for looks.