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aepuppetmaster

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Weird Pads On Memory Chips, Normal?
« on: October 15, 2006, 01:49:00 AM »
i was opening up a broken 360 i bought, which has a 0110 memmory error, and when i took the mobo out of the tray these weird pads where on the memory on the back.  I've never seen/heard of these before but maybe that just me.  Are they normal?
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whatnub

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Weird Pads On Memory Chips, Normal?
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2006, 02:55:00 AM »
Someone was talking about this a couple weeks ago I heard that they are "heat transfer pads" and they transfer the heat to the casing
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bigjimmy

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Weird Pads On Memory Chips, Normal?
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2006, 05:19:00 AM »
Yep theyre normal to have and yes they transfer heat from the RAM chips to the metal casing. I would highly reccommend keeping them on, as they help quite a bit.

If any RAM chips are damaged/not working, itll be any of the 4 chip on the top of the motherboard. Ill be its one of the two sitting under the GPU heatsink
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