Recent thinking on notebook RAM with heat spreaders?

I am about to order 2 x 2GB RAM for my HP Pavilion dv6275us. Newegg is selling this G.Skill Dual Channel Kit for $39.99 plus shipping. A couple of reviews mention using it in HP dv6000t's (the series of my notebook), though it was a tight fit.

What about the heat spreaders? Is this an issue with notebooks, or does it matter? I didn't see any other RAM with heat spreaders in this particular speed.

The same G.Skill RAM without heat spreader is also $39.99, but with free shipping.

Pretty incredible how much RAM has come down recently.

Thanks,
Bill

 

here is what you need to know.
If your memory card slots are located so that one memory card sits ontop of the other, than you cannot use memory with heatspreaders. The heatspreaders make the cards too thick, so that when you go to sit them ontop of each other, the memory card in the top slot wont clip in.
You can only use memory with heatspreaders, if your memory slots oppose each other, or are in different areas of the laptop

To be honest, memory does not get very hot, so just buy the ones without the heatspreaders

K-TRON

 

Heat spreaders only work well on desktops where they have space and active cooling.

 

If you ever take them off you'll see that most commercial ram heat spreaders don't do anything anyways. Most of the sets I've had where I removed them the spreader is touching either the middle couple of chips only or the outer couple of chips only and that's it. Plus they're held on with tape that I doubt is even good thermal adhesive tape, looks more like automotive trim tape most of the time. I'd skip the spreaders, especially in a notebook, if anything they may collect more heat and put it back into the ram.

 

ram heat spreaders will do little to nothing to boost its performance

 

Thanks, guys, for the input. That must explain why hardly anyone, it seems, produces notebook memory with heat spreaders.

I'll go with the plain one, and I think I saw a $3 coupon.

Bill