Kingston HyperX line gets new heat spreaders
"Kingston redesigns their HyperX heat spreaders"
Published: 14th November 2008 | Source: Kingston |
Kingston Redesigns Heat-Spreaders for Enthusiast-Class Memory Modules. 
Kingston Technology on Wednesday unveiled its new family of memory modules that utilize more advanced heat-spreaders than before. The memory supplier hopes that the new cooling systems will help enthusiasts to overclock HyperX T1 to higher clock-speeds.
For years Kingston has used rather simplistic aluminum heat-spreaders with cramps to spread and take the heat away from memory chips. This still allowed the firm to introduce very high-speed HyperX-branded memory modules and be on par with its rivals, who started to use rather complicated cooling systems years ago. But in order to achieve new performance heights, Kingston still had to create an improved cooling system.
The cooling system utilized on Kingston HyperX T1-series memory modules is much taller compared to the original HyperX heat-spreader, thus, can theoretically take away more heat from memory chips.
“The HyperX T1-series heat-spreaders are made of heavy-duty extruded aluminum with extended fins and HyperX Thermal Xchange (HTX) technology for maximum thermal conditions when users take their systems to the extreme. Any gamer or overclocker who intends to dominate with memory will want to use Kingston’s T1 series, which is a great complement to our existing line of HyperX modules with the lower profile heatsink,” said Dara Sun, product manager at Kingston.Large memory cooling solutions are not panacea against overheating: firstly, active cooling may still be considerably better; secondly, high heat-spreaders may not fit into certain systems with large microprocessor cooler. Therefore, end-users should take into account dimensions of such memory modules before buying.
Kingston HyperX T1-series DDR3 memory modules at 1800MHz – 2000MHz speed-bins as well as DDR2 memory modules at 800MHz and 1066MHz speed-bins are available now. Prices range from $55 to $435.
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They look pretty slick tbh :yumyum:
They look well smart! Would look even better with a black/blue PCB imo :)
Wc people aint gonna care too much about this, but even tho I like the looks of these sticks, the higher the profile, the lesser the options for cpu fan options.
It`s difficult enough having a high bridge cooler, the pwm cooler, then some ram profiles that are darn tall b4 u even put a fan on them. It can lead u to 3 sides of a cpu-tower cooler not being accessible.
Not necessarily the ram manufacturers fault 100%, but they are at the disadvantage of having dimm slots directly to the rear of the cpu area. So if u want to blow across ur cpu and out the rear - ur knackered.
Have seen an Intel i7 mobo where they`ve moved the dimm array to above the cpu and parallel to pci slots, which could be interesting - atleast in this fashion, the air cooling techiques can attempt to flow 1 way.
Probably great ram outside of the rant tho ;)
It`s difficult enough having a high bridge cooler, the pwm cooler, then some ram profiles that are darn tall b4 u even put a fan on them. It can lead u to 3 sides of a cpu-tower cooler not being accessible.
Not necessarily the ram manufacturers fault 100%, but they are at the disadvantage of having dimm slots directly to the rear of the cpu area. So if u want to blow across ur cpu and out the rear - ur knackered.
Have seen an Intel i7 mobo where they`ve moved the dimm array to above the cpu and parallel to pci slots, which could be interesting - atleast in this fashion, the air cooling techiques can attempt to flow 1 way.
Probably great ram outside of the rant tho ;)
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