Aurora R13, cooling GDDR5 4400

Question

Hiya Y'all, I use an Aurora R13 with GDDR5 4400 32 GB memory. I can remember an Aurora R3 from 11 years ago had cooling on top of it. And those 2 banks had top end blue anodized heatsinks. Now I bought an Aurora R13 and look inside, there is no any cooling information about memory, no top fan, no heatsink or whatever, just a plain top of the build memory, why? I created 4 top ends for those 2 modules because its plain at sight. You need to wear handgloves to remove them. That cooling bring down temp with 23%. So I create 4 top ends with a tolerance 0,05 and a 45 degree mill, and cut 0,02 to pull off, pull on. So my question is why did Alienware put 2 memory chards plain into slots without cooling?

F34R · Accepted Answer

Because it's the cheapest they could go with.  Cooling the memory isn't necessary in the R13.  Why do you need to wear hand gloves?

EdCo64 · Answer

I wear allways hand gloves to avoid any static issue's

F34R · Answer

That's probably smart lol.  I've been building PC's for almost 30 years now and I've never wore a wrist strap thingy, or gloves lol.  Never had any issues so far,  knock on wood. hehe.

EdCo64 · Answer

You would wear them, it also avoid grease and bacterial things from your fingers contage the parts inside you work on.

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