[SF_VR6]

Should I buy RAM heatsinks for my RAM going into the G5 or have I been brainwashed and duped from the PC world?

[giantmike]

Do not buy heatsinks for your RAM. Even in the PC worls, heatsinks for RAM are basically useless. Save your money and buy more RAM.

[saru boy]

Heat dissipation is a factor in higher speed RAM.

Alot of the better quality RAM come with heatsinks/heatspreaders anyway.

[Wet Jimmy]

RAM heatsinks appear to be good Marketing, and little real benefit. Take a look at the three links below for the anwers you seek -

http://www.dansdata.com/fastram.htm

http://www.dansdata.com/gz006.htm

http://www.dansdata.com/danletters035.htm

[Eriamjh]

heatsinks for RAM are only worth it if you are overclocking and maybe not even so.

On a regular mac... a waste of money.

[saru boy]

Originally posted by Eriamjh:
On a regular mac... a waste of money.

As opposed to an...irregular mac?

Anyway, like I said, alot of the higher speed RAM being sold nowadays already come with heatsinks. I bought a couple of sticks of PC3200 400mhz DDR RAM for $71 each a couple of months ago and they came with heatspreaders. If you want to buy the RAM and take the heatsinks off, go ahead.