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Old 10-20-09   #1 (permalink)
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Default Heat spreader touching heat sink
I was wondering if that would cause any problems?
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Isn't the heatspreader supposed to touch the heatsink...?
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i think he's referring to the heatspreader of the RAM touching the CPU heatsink
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If it is touching but you get a full seat on your CPU, your fine. But make sure that it is not push on your RAM. If it is and your ram is tilted then you can have some issues....

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I think he means his ram heatspreaders are touching his CPU heat sink.

No it shouldn't as long as your ram isn't at some crazy angle. Otherwise some of the contacts could not be touching

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no what i mean is i have a dark knight cpu heat sink and i put 3 ram sticks in the dominator from corsair the ram heatpreader is touching my cpu heat sink
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i see, well yeah its not bending at some crazy angle, the cpu heat sink just kinda pushes the heat spreader in the middle a LITTLE
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