I take them all out at once and run them one by one in a test machine.
[REQUEST] My RAM :(
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I take them all out at once and run them one by one in a test machine.
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Heck yes! You can moan like a babygirl or you can have the balls to go exactly that way. Here² you'll find a 7900X with a 6 kilogram heatsink. The space between heatsink and graphics card is about 5 millimeter. The m.2 device is mounted directly under the graphics card between the PCIe slots. If I would start moaning like a babygirl everytime I have to unmount everything to get the fingers onto the RAM modules or the m.2 drive I wouldn't be able to do anything but moaning. There is no other way to find out which of your RAM stripes is the bad one. Oh, sorry, there is one way: Replace them all at once. That would fit it.
² My home, my castle, my private place. At work I have a dual core (first generation) because the first name and the last name of my boss seems to be "scrooge"
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Before the DRAM shortage, memory used to be cheap. I wouldn't have even bothered to RMA a $70 set of RAM and would've just grabbed a replacement kit from the shelf and thrown it in the garbage. Now that the exact same RAM is like $230 though I can't make myself do that.
I used to use big fan coolers in the past, but it's 2018 now. These days I either use the stock cooler, or liquid cooling. Liquid cooling isn't that expensive anymore and is much easier and more efficient. So stop whining, pick up a $50 liquid cooler, and test each stick individually. If you're lucky the computer won't even POST with just the one bad stick in there.
I used to use big fan coolers in the past, but it's 2018 now. These days I either use the stock cooler, or liquid cooling. Liquid cooling isn't that expensive anymore and is much easier and more efficient. So stop whining, pick up a $50 liquid cooler, and test each stick individually. If you're lucky the computer won't even POST with just the one bad stick in there.
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That seems... excessive. Is it copper as well?
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Intel i9 7900X and don't ask me about the material of the heatsink. It doesn't look like copper
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G.SKILL RMA policy: replace the whole kit when part of the kit is bad. So, I get my way
Next time I build a PC for myself it will not have a behemoth heatsink.
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Since I don't have any thermal paste left, I ordered Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut (copper heatsinks only) so hopefully that will drop my temps... like 1 degree lol.
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A good quality water cooling kit is only about $120 here so the same thing over there would be about $50?
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I would buy a high end one, so $100+. My next build will have one. Easier and cheaper than custom liquid cooling.
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"High End" here would be around $225 +
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Found my Trident X's heat spreader but cannot find the two little screws for it Messaged G.SKILL RMA about it.
Check this out:
Q:
Can I remove the heatsink/heatspreader?
A:
No. Removing the heatsink/heatspreader will void G.SKILL warranty.
TridentX’s top fin, however, is removable without voiding G.SKILL warranty. To remove, remove the screws on the side, and then slide off the fin.
http://www.gskill.com/marketing/design01.jpg
Messaged G.SKILL RMA about it.Check this out:
Q:
Can I remove the heatsink/heatspreader?
A:
No. Removing the heatsink/heatspreader will void G.SKILL warranty.
TridentX’s top fin, however, is removable without voiding G.SKILL warranty. To remove, remove the screws on the side, and then slide off the fin.
http://www.gskill.com/marketing/design01.jpg
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Found my Trident X's heat spreader but cannot find the two little screws for it
Check this out:
Q:
Can I remove the heatsink/heatspreader?
A:
No. Removing the heatsink/heatspreader will void G.SKILL warranty.
TridentX’s top fin, however, is removable without voiding G.SKILL warranty. To remove, remove the screws on the side, and then slide off the fin.
http://www.gskill.com/marketing/design01.jpg
Looks like you lucked out on this one. I'd just send it in without the screws.
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Gotta wait to hear back from them first. Don't want to send it in assuming it will work and having it rejected which would suck, and not in a good way
Removing the CPU heatsink was not so bad. Didn't have to fight to "unglue" it. CPU thermal paste coverage could have been a little better and it is drying out.
Ordered Thermal Grizzly Conductance thermal paste which can only be used with copper heat sinks. Thought my Noctua NH-D14 was made of copper but the base part that touches the CPU is grey/silver. Emailed Noctua about it.
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In the meantime, I am using my Apple MacBook Pro (13-Inch, Mid-2014, High Sierra), which I rarely use. It is such a joy to use. MacOS is so damn smooth. Running Windows 10 Pro in Parallels.
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I'm sure the reason they say that removing the top fin is fine is they've been hit with complaints. Doubt you are the first one who had space limitations when mounting them.
W10 in a VM works really well. I maxed my 2012 MBP with 16gb RAM and a 960 SSB.
W10 in a VM works really well. I maxed my 2012 MBP with 16gb RAM and a 960 SSB.
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FIrst of all, many thanks for contacting noctua!Gotta wait to hear back from them first. Don't want to send it in assuming it will work and having it rejected which would suck, and not in a good way
Removing the CPU heatsink was not so bad. Didn't have to fight to "unglue" it. CPU thermal paste coverage could have been a little better and it is drying out.
Ordered Thermal Grizzly Conductance thermal paste which can only be used with copper heat sinks. Thought my Noctua NH-D14 was made of copper but the base part that touches the CPU is grey/silver. Emailed Noctua about it.
I'm happy to tell you that this is not aluminum but the nickel plating of our copper base. Nickel plating is compatible with thermal grizzly thermal paste.
Kind regards, Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Emanuel Fankhauser
Noctua support team
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Just a note, I used to use Gskill because it was inexpensive and seemed pretty reliable. I stopped using them the day I opened a package, took out the RAM and some pieces which were supposed to be soldered to the board fell out too. I prefer Kingston. Never had to RMA Kingston memory. If I can't get that because my vendor doesn't stock crap sometimes I go with Crucial, which I haven't had to RMA for years.
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I'm not impressed with G.SKILL's customer service. They take too long to respond, skip answering questions, are very brief. The guy who answers the tech support line I can barely hear.
In the future I will probably purchase Corsair RAM for my gaming computer. Big fan of Crucial, but they do not sell high-end RAM that looks sweet in a gaming computer.
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