Quote Originally Posted by CryptiK View Post
I was thinking along the same lines, I was going to put up a thread asking about whether people thought naked kits of D9 lasted longer than the kits with spreaders. They get really hot, as all the IC's are touching them and transferring heat, but also due to that fact they are keeping the IC's hot too. I'm not sure what temp each individual IC gets up to under load, but I doubt it would be as hot as the heatspreaders are.
Yeah I think I will remove the heatspreaders. Only skeptical to do so as the kit is so new, but even if I do need to RMA the sticks after a bit, its not like thermal tape is difficult to find