"Low heat" & Samsung ram?

I’m looking to buy more memory for an iMac G4 1.25 GHz.
This site gives me the option of having “low heat” ram, or low heat Samsung ram for ~$30 more. What’s the difference?
http://www.oempcworld.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=PC270 0-SODIMM

From what I read, when I bought Apple-certified Samsung RAM for my iBook
1.33 G4, which coincidentally also runs in the user accessible slot in the iMac
G4 1.25, I figured the odds were more than good this product was the best.
I figured if adding a cool running RAM chip did save a few degrees of heat,
that would be a good thing over the life of the product. The fan seldom runs.
In my iBook, this gives me 1.5GB of RAM; adding a PC2700/333 Samsung 1024MB.
And the low-profile 512MB chip in my iMac G4 is interchangeable. More RAM is good.
Best quality is better than just having more; especially when the factory inside slot is
upgraded. {That can cost more than the difference, when the new RAM is bad, in there.}
Of course, that chip is a standard 184-pin and not a 200-pin laptop chip.
And the price now (at OEMPC World) is lower than what I'd paid, including mail order to
here, so it is a fair price, compared to about $112, I paid over a year ago. Still it's a bargain.
Looks like the same RAM I bought (in iBookG4.) If you happen to go into the iMac G4
to replace the battery or other stuff, that's a time to upgrade the inside RAM to 1GB.
You can use the next higher spec RAM in there, but it will show only as a PC2700/333.

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