I'm going to be a using a air cooler with my new build (Phanteks PH-TC14PE) and im going to need low profile ram.
Any suggestions?
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I'm going to be a using a air cooler with my new build (Phanteks PH-TC14PE) and im going to need low profile ram.
Any suggestions?
Can't go wrong with anything that meets your spec really so just get the cheapest that does what you want and comes with a warranty whose terms you find acceptable.
I just asked a similar question on another forum.
I was recommended Samsung Green RAM. I got it today, and it's the tiniest RAM I've ever seen.
Definately Samsung green, can't get any smaller and it clocks well too.
The Samsung green and some kingston 1333mhz stuff is the only actual low profile ram I know of.
Funny the way a lot of the ram called "low profile" is actually just normal profile.
To quote from an old thread http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-news/2...r3-memory.html
That's not to say standard profile will not work because heatsinks are normally made to clear standard profile ram as it is the ATX standard.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadduckUK
Crucial do a few low profile RAM modules in their range:
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/list...DDR3/list.html
I'd recommend Samsung Greens, since they are actually low profile, and perform really well :)
So does the Crucial stuff.
Agree, as a proud owner of a pair of Ballistix Sport VLP 4GB 1.35V 9CL. Very tiny and apparently over clocks well (I can't try cause I have B75, so all I could do what to reduce the timings). Tiny as it gets, the levers from the memory slots are higher that them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Willzzz
I think in some places the LP doesn't stand for Low Profile, but Low Power because of the lower that default voltage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pob255
Anyway as discussed even normal height RAM will work with 99% of coolers. It's only the really high stuff that has problems.
Nice to see curcial now does low profile stuff
Although http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/part...D1608ET3LX0CEU so low profile, 1.35v ram but with an enlarged heatsink
DDR2 generated a lot of heat because of the high voltages it ran at, DDR3 doesn't get anywhere near as hot so shouldn't need big heatsinks
Some brands have retcon'd LP to mean low power, but we have it direct from a corsair rep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonebreaker777
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Originally Posted by Blackbeard
The Crucial stuff is just awesome, low-profile, 1.35v, CL8, overclocks really well and is cheap as anything. £38 for 8Gb I paid.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/low-vo...w-32688-3.html
That is a good deal, I paid £55 for my Samsung green LP - where'd you get that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Willzzz
Dabs, when they had their 10% off deal.
http://www.dabs.com/category/compone...0000-475100000
Still pretty cheap but it takes them ages to get it in stock.
Amazon and eBuyer are a good source of Crucial memory modules.Quote:
Originally Posted by kmac
Had those, nearly twice as tall as Crucial® Ballistix® Sport VLP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Willzzz
You exaggerate, maybe 50% taller.
http://www.crucial.com/images11/LowP...tition_lrg.jpg
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The Crucial Ballistic Sport VLP module stands just 18.75mm tall and the Crucial Ballistix Tatical LP is 25.50mm in height.
Ebuyer do the VLP set:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonebreaker777
http://www.ebuyer.com/408617-crucial...d1609es2lx0ceu
I'm using gskill ripjaws, and they sit incredibly low but still have decent heat spreaders. Definitely recommend them :)
I beg your pardon, I missed the LP, I had the NORMAL height Crucial Ballistix Tactical Memory Kit available. In that case the half size is right :p. Normal memory modules without the heatsink are 1.5-1.7", but Very Low Profile modules stand at 0.72" (DIMM Wiki).Quote:
Originally Posted by Willzzz
I grabbed two of these back in january: http://www.ebuyer.com/408620-crucial...d1608et3lx0ceu when they were only £14.99 ex vat (so ~ £18 inc). Not sure why the price has jumped up quite so much since then...?
Really must play with tweaking them at some point, they've booted at 1333MHz from SPD so far, but they can do so much more... :D
Yeah memory seems to have shot up from around £35 for 4GB x2 at the start of the year to around £55 - £60 last month - seems to be continuing to increase.
I know the pound weakened against major currencies earlier this year which could explain part of the increase.
Over the years I have noticed that ram has one of the most inconsistent price averages out of any components I look at. ddr2 became really cheap for a while when ddr3 was coming in. But then the prices shot back up again. It's really strange sometimes..Quote:
Originally Posted by kmac
thanks for the suggestions guys, alot of people seem to really dig the gskill ripjaws so i may go with them :)
i was asking for low profile ram last year on another very popular forum. and the overwhelming answers were gskill ripjaws. had lots of replies too. they have been serving me well and leave lots of space. i think you'll be happy with them :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Speedy247
They aren't really low profile though, they are just normal sized and thus will fit under most coolers.
You will find that many designs fit quite neatly, the normal Cruicial Ballistix, Patriot Viper, and I'm sure many others.Quote:
Despite being a little bigger than the standard DIMM size they still nicely fit under any giant cooler you can imagine. Certainly neither the Silver Arrow nor NH-D14 present a problem, which is more than can be said for many heatspreader designs.
what, ripjaws? for something with a decent heat spreader on they are low profile i would say. there might be something that does the job better though. depends how much clearance is needed. i just worked out what the gap would be between ram and cpu heatsink before i ordered anything. they fit under my corsair a50 which sticks out quite a bit.. but they wont suit all i guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Willzzz
As I said they are fine, but the vast majority of normal height RAM would also be fine.
Generally speaking no-one really needs proper low-profile RAM, nor do they need the extra high stuff like Corsair Vengeance, Kingston Predator or Gskill Trident.
Interestingly, doing some reading around, it looks like what we now consider "standard" DDR dimms are technically "low profile" (1.2" rather than the "standard" 1.5"-1.7" of SDR SDRAM), and the 0.7" form factor is JEDEC's "very low profile" form factor. Low profile was simply adopted as the common form factor for all DDR memory. But technically, comanies may actually be right to call 1.2" tall DIMMs low profile.
That's a bit of an eye-opener... :O_o1:
Wasn't a eye opener for me but made me remember once in a long time I saw once a Kingmax/Kingstone standard DIMM extra tall, was like 1GB of SD-RAM or so. Always wondered if I ever will be able to afford it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim