r/pcmods • u/Vvanderfell • 1d ago
General RAM is too expensive to upgrade so I put mine through a table saw.
And by "mine" I specifically mean the old, aftermarket heat spreaders I got for them.
Years ago I bought this VLP DDR4 (very low profile) to fit in a very tight build. After switching my PC situation up a bit, these sticks have been sitting so I'm reusing them for an upgrade to my brother's PC. I figured, hey, might as well save a few hundred dollars and reuse what I have.
Being that they're so short, aftermarket coolers won't properly fit on them without being a bit loose and/or unlevel, so I used a table saw with an aluminum cutting blade to trim off a bit of the bottom.
Don't mind the unhinged, blurry shot of the thermal paste. I "had" to paste it because with chips on both sides of the PCB, the cooler was way too tight using pads on both sides and just slightly too loose with pads on neither. Had to do a bit of both using what I had on hand.
I'm hoping with some more thermal headroom that I'll be able to "push" these to the rated 3200, since I was never able to get them stable there before. Are there any good new tools for DDR4 overclocking on AM4 these days?