SuperPi32m 5Ghz Ivy All Out Challenge!

[Raja@ASUS]

Hmm, are you suggesting a gain by removing the heatspreaders, and remounting with lets say.... ceramique or MX2-3-4 ? I have honestly not considered removing the spreaders from any Dom.... But, if there is a gain, then it might be worth doing it.

No, don't replace the epoxy if you are going to be using the Corsair Dominator PCBs with those heatspreaders as the PCB copper plane acts as a good enough transfer interconnect. If you intend to use those heatspreaders with any other vendor module then removing the epoxy residue from the heatspreaders is worthwhile. It's not very thermally conductive and I found with my cascade that the PSC modules I used would not clock to DDR3-2600, as the transfer to the ICs was very poor, with the epoxy basically acting as an insulator. Cleaned off epoxy (epoxy with TIM did not work well) and used good TIM and my BBSEs cold bugged with the PSC ended up hitting DDR3-2600 at CAS 6. It will chip off with a screwdriver and then you can replace it with a decent enough TIM. Hopefully this will take all the guesswork and armchair supposition out for you guys.

-Raja