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How to figure RAM chip maker without taking off heatspreader?

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I'd like to figure out who is the actual maker of my RAM chips because motherboard has special RAM tweaks for 3 major RAM makers, but I don't want to take heatspreaders off. Is there any way to find that out via model number and other stuff that can be read from hardware info apps?

RAM is Kingston HyperX Fury 2400MHz DDR4 model number KHX2400C15D4/8G, Dual Rank, made in Week 28, Year 15

Can be found out based on this info alone or not?
 
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From googling, it shows up on the first page. Hynix?

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Strange, I couldn't find anything at all. I wonder if Kingston is using various chips for modules manufactured at different times and possibly even different plants for same model (part number).
 

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Google for software called Typhoon Burner. As alucasa shows in that screen shot, it will tell you everything programmed to the SPD file, and it is free to use. Also, yes it is possible that companies change IC based on availability when the sticks were made.
 
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Strange, I couldn't find anything at all. I wonder if Kingston is using various chips for modules manufactured at different times and possibly even different plants for same model (part number).

It is possible that a vendor uses different chips for later revisions for RAMs. I've seen it happen before.

Well, the unpaid babysitter said it. Use the software although it's possible that it may be simply pulling recorded info.
 

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It is possible that a vendor uses different chips for later revisions for RAMs. I've seen it happen before.

Well, the unpaid babysitter said it. Use the software although it's possible that it may be simply pulling recorded info.

Typhoon Burner reads the SPD from the RAM in the PC. It's not pulling from a database.
 
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It's a shame CPU-Z isn't showing more of this data (it's clearly reading it since it obtained model and manufacturing week this way, if it's in the SPD chip. Knowing actual chip maker would certainly be very useful since most RAM's today have heatspreaders and are sold by brand names like Kingston or Corsair.

Thanks to this info, I was able to pick custom pre-baked RAM timings in BIOS. Might poke the CPU-Z guys about it...

EDIT:
Just sent CPU-Z guys a recommendation for this. I hope they'll add it to CPU-Z as it would really be super useful. :)
 
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