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Aurora R13, cooling GDDR5 4400
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
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April 18th, 2022 15:00
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
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April 24th, 2022 02:00
I wear allways hand gloves to avoid any static issue's
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April 24th, 2022 07:00
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.
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April 24th, 2022 08:00
You would wear them, it also avoid grease and bacterial things from your fingers contage the parts inside you work on.