Package Contents

For each pack bought you get enough materials to cover two SDRAM modules.

There are 4 x thin thermal sheets for double sided memory, 2 x thick thermal sheets for adding to single sided memory.

4 x heat spreaders.

Memory clips.

Build Quality

KAMA supply copper and silver based coolers as well, but the build quality of the black heat sinks was good considering their low price point - with all the materials being properly finished and well crafted.

Installation

The manual for the KAMA heatsinks is displayed at the back of the box and we admit it looks a touch confusing when you first look at the instructions, but as the saying goes pictures speak louder than words and this applies to the KAMA to.

With the instructions also presented in graphical form you can just make out that each heat spreader is slightly different in shape - at the edges - once this is worked out the installation is a piece of cake from this point on.

The KAMA heat spreaders can cope with either single or double sided memory modules up to DDR3 specification.

Each thermal sheet has to be stuck onto the memory chips before you apply the metal heat spreaders. Installation is straightforward with plenty of room for mistakes, so if you need to make adjustments you will have no problems re-attaching each thermal sheet time and time again.

Attaching the metal heat spreaders is the next step and this was also simple to implement. Each plate is secured to the memory modules using two clips, which ensures the plates do not come off when installing, but at the same time are not wielded into place.

The above is useful if you wanted to remove them later or were not happy with their placement. Especially as you can customise the heatsinks into different positions so they can maximise cooling potential and for ensuring compatibility with your board layout.

We were lucky in a way because our memory banks were slightly separate from each other, but we were able to place all four memory modules into our MESH Test PC.

You will need to add the modules in a certain order otherwise you end up blocking access to the rest of the banks, so back module goes in first and then so on (pretty obvious when you come to install them yourselves).

The image in the gallery shows two modules in place but it can handle four, though we did feel that the last memory module was a bit too close to the power cable, but the heat spreaders do not get that hot to the touch, so we left them in place in the end.

Overclocking

One of the best reasons to go for the KAMA-Wings is for overclocking, again we must point out that overclocking should not be done unless you are confident in what you are doing.

We could push our bog standard memory modules to a maximum of 776Mhz from the bog standard 667Mhz clock speeds, though you could get higher if you are confident with overclocking, but we found our machine crashed when the memory reached around 800Mhz, so a touch of experimenting is in order to see how far you can push your memory.

Considering the heat spreaders are not copper based an additional 109Mhz is not bad for a pack that costs just under £10.

Though when we ran a memory test in PC Mark 05 (XP) the improvements may not be that noticeable, as on 667Mhz our memory scored 5245 and on 776Mhz it scored 5297.

Regardless of the scores the above cooling is useful for not only prolonging the life of your existing memory, but also if you needed to push your CPU and motherboard clock speeds up as well and at £10 a pack they are a bargain.