Its called kapton tape. Its specialized, non-conductive, high temperature threshold tape that’s used to prevent shorts in electronics. You usually see it in laptops to hold things like wires in place if the manufacturer didn’t design guides into the case.
You should be able to buy it from Amazon or any e-tailer. Your local hardware store probabaly also sells it.
I don’t know why you would need it on a ram module though, unless the module itself has the possibility of coming into contact with a conductive surface or an SMD or other component on the board or surrounding enclosure.
Also, you’d be better off replacing both ram modules with a matching set from a kit. Even if you find the exact same module online, since they aren’t from the same batch, you can’t guarantee they’ll perform well together.
About the RAM themself, getting two would be a waste. The current stick works perfectly, so I thought getting the same model online (that I found easily) would not make a fully working stick of RAM just unused.
I am not really talking about mismatched. I am talking about getting the exact model VS getting two fresh sticks and retire the original one. It doesn’t sound like both situation would create problems, again, sounds. In any case, in both cases it would be 2400MHz sticks because it appears to be the only supported frequency.
Buying one stick to match the one you already have is technically mismatching. Unless you get extremely lucky and end up with another stick from the same batch as the first, there will probably be some slight differences.
A lot of what you see online says that this is bad, and you should buy both sticks as a set, but realistically, you won’t see a difference.
I’ve been doing it for decades, and never seen an issue, and that’s in gaming and photo and video work :)
Any lights is too many lights, they are pointless and obnoxious IMO. I fucking hate how my current laptop has one of those stupid fucking rgb backlit keyboards which lights up to full brightness when the computer goes into standby but isn’t closed.
The sooner manufacturers stop making this trash the better.
Your current PSU is important for figuring out if you need to upgrade. Maybe consider a Ryzen 5800X3D (if your motherboard supports it with a BIOS update) and a 6800 XT because I don’t think the 2600 is gonna be pushing 100+ frames at 1440p in most newer titles (of course it depends on the title and settings). I don’t think the 7800 XT makes much sense over the 6800 XT at that price.
Yes it is a downgrade in speed. It would show up more in speed tests than it would visually, if you used the XMP profile. However at 3600mhz the XMP is not guaranteed unless it is in the supported memory sheet for your board.
It was about $850, plus some to replace some cables. The prebuilts I saw in the same price range were a lot weaker. I also got lucky with prime day, got to upgrade a few parts for the same price.
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