Hexus has taken a look at the P5K3 Premium motherboard from Asus, that will be displayed tomorrow (June 5) at Computex. As you can see in the picture below, they've installed both memory and heatspreaders.

Are these good news to you? Depends on what you want from a motherboard. If you like high performing, overclocking friendly, trouble free products... this is a good choice. Having the manufacturer select the RAM for you, eludes potential RMA problems. On the other hand, if you dream with graphics cards that can be fully customized (PCB, GPU and memory sold separately)... this is not a very good indication that we're headed that way.

Out of the box chipset heatsinks are usually of bad quality, and thermal grease can be called almost everything except "thermal". Is there any reason to believe the situation will change when they decide to outfit memory with it's own solution?

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