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11 May 2017
CORSAIR Vengeance Pro - Form over Function
4 of 9 found this helpful This memory works as expected; my issue is with the apparently
decorative heatsinks. These two pieces of stamped steel are merely held
onto the printed circuit boards with double-sided foam tape. The tape
adheres well to the "heatsink" but not to the tops of the memory IC's on
the cards. As a result the "heatsinks" (at least they have the
appearance of being that) can easily become separated from the board the
first time one attempts to remove the memory cards by pulling on the
heatsink (as is the intended use).
It's questionable as to whether these
actually are heatsinks -- or if the double-sided foam tape is actually
behaving as an insulator -- preventing the IC's from cooling -- with the
heat sink shell serving only to block airflow and trap additional heat
around the needlessly thermally insulated integrated circuits. I'm a
degree electronics engineer -- and it certainly appears that way to me.
Regardless, once that tape breaks free there's no fix. Throw the shells
away or take the hassle of sending them in for warranty to start the process over. I contacted
Corsair about this and the representative acted as if he had never heard
this complaint. I checked customer reviews at Newegg. There were only half dozen reviews there and more than one customer had mentioned the same problem.
The expensive fan to cool the memory at best serves to
compensate for the poorly designed heatsinking -- adding unnecessary
noise while cooling the integrated circuits only a couple of degrees.
Others have also commented about this on Newegg. Probably could forgo the fan if the memory modules had proper heatsinking.
In addition, the most
likely application for this fan would be for additional needed cooling
in a gaming system. Gaming systems, however, typically use the first PCI
Express slot for the GPU. With a full-length card in the first PCI
Express slot the fan cannot be attached to the clips which hold the
memory cards because there is not enough clearance between these clips
and the GPU (at least on my Asus Z87M-PLUS and Z97 Gryphon motherboards
there isn't).
All in all a very disappointing investment in spite of the
memory working just fine. If it's bling that you're looking for - this
is fairly nice looking hardware. If it is sound engineering and
durability that you're looking for I would pass on this arrangement.
Certainly there's a better solution available than this.