Question 1

installation? with or without heat sink/jacket?

Accepted Answer

Installation was simple, just seat the memory press it in until the snaps lock and your done.  The memory comes as pictured with heat sink attached.  Hope this helps.  Definitely woke up m sleepy machine.

Question 2

If I ad this to my system which supports dual channel memory and I already have an exact twin to this in my motherboard, will adding another cause my system memory to run in dual channel mode or must I buy the PNY kit which has 2x4Gb Dimms together to get dual channel memory operation? THANK YOU.

Accepted Answer

To run in true dual channel mode you will have to have a matched set of the memory sticks, thus dual channel. Anything less that two sticks is not dual channel. So, add another identical stick and you will be running dual channel.

Question 3

do I remove the metal case from this memory before installing it in my computer?

Accepted Answer

the bright orange metal "case" covering the ram that you see in the pictures are called "heat spreaders" and help keep the memory cool.  don't remove them.

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