Can memory modules touch?

[kukka]

I have a Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9 motherboard and 1GB Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PT memory, which is listed as being compatible on Corsair's web site. The memory slots on the motherboard are very close together and when I insert the DIMMs, the clips on the heat spreader touch the adjacent module.

If I remove the clips, the modules don't touch. However, Corsair doesn't epoxy the heat spreaders to the chips, so the clips are necessary to provide good contact.

Is it OK for the modules to touch or will it short something out?

 

[imported_whatever]

It should be fine, however you should check how warm the RAM gets from time to time to make sure that it isn't overheating from lack of airflow.

 

[kukka]

>> It should be fine, however you should check how warm the RAM gets from time to time to make sure that it isn't overheating from lack of airflow <<

What temperatures are we talking about?

Hmm, wondering if I would be better off trying to return this RAM and buying modules WITHOUT heat spreaders.

 

[Jiggz]

You're OK. A module with HS even when touching one side to another HS is still better than one without HS. I'll start worrying if the system starts to act weird after being on for a long time. But unless that happens, I won't worry at all.

 

[Zepper]

As long as there is no chance of shorting anything out, you're fine.

.bh.

 

[kukka]

OK, thanks guys.

Whatever said to "check how warm the RAM gets from time to time to make sure that it isn't overheating from lack of airflow." This sounds like a good idea given the tight spacing between the DIMM sockets and should be easy for me to do since my case has temperature sensors.

Where is the best place to put the temperature sensor? On one of the heat spreaders between two adjacent modules? Or wedge it under the heat spreader near the memory chips?

What kind of temperatures are we talking about re normal operation and re overheating?

 

[Cheezeit]

put it between the modueles.

really, you don't need to worry much about overheating.

alot of people don't even have heat spreaders of stuff like that and their ram is fine