Thermaltake PC2100 DDR / heatsinks

Manufacturer: Thermaltake  
Supplied by: Thermaltake

by Tuan Nguyen (OC-Cafe' guest writer - 5/26/2001) 

Introduction

Can you imagine a word where there are heatsinks on everything? Obviously this isn’t a practical practice but it’s becoming quite a trend in the computer world. Things are being cooled to the extreme and too often I see someone invest in a cooling scheme that is often… useless.

Certain devices generate a significant amount of heat, and they require heatsinks to stay alive. Other devices generate heat too, but the amount is negligible and don’t warrant the real need for a heatsink. One can argue that having heatsinks puts a security lock on the device in question’s life span, but the truth of the matter is those devices that don’t need heatsinks, were designed without heatsinks in mind.

Now, in a century that prides itself in overclocking, it’s hard to determine which products really need heatsinks and which do not. Some of the obvious ones are processors, graphics processors, high-speed memory on video cards and core-logic chipsets, specifically the north bridge.

Thermaltake

Enter a DDR memory solution created by Thermaltake. Yes, the same company that makes Golden Orbs, Chrome Orbs, Super Orbs, and those other orbs. If you’re an avid overclocking you can find many reasons to attach heatsinks to your hardware, and on certain components, it does prolong the life of what you’re overclocking.

Take a look below.

It almost looks like a Rambus module but it’s not. Basically Thermaltake is using the same concept as Rambus but not quite as sophisticated. Using double-sided tape, you attach the aluminum heat spreaders on the module. Thermaltake includes two clips to clamp down the pieces but you don’t need it if you’re using the strong double-sided tape.

What Lies Beneath

So does Thermaltake actually manufacture the memory modules themselves? The answer is no. The modules that Thermaltake uses are Samsung PC2100 DDR RAM, which are very high quality. Samsung also produces high quality RDRAM that looks really good with silver heat spreaders instead of typical blue ones.

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