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The heat-spreader is designed to enhance heat dissipation allowing better tweaks and overclocks, albeit does anyone really OC their memory these days? I mean that's what you purchase more expensive XMP memory for, right? As the tweaking is done for you already. The Sniper-X theme is not low profile memory. The idea is that heat is moved away from the actual memory chips and this increases potential overclocking and stability. 
 

Still, with this design any cooler in close vicinity of the memory should install just fine. Thanks to that heat-spreader the memory is very sturdy and can be inserted into the DIMM slots with ease.
  

G.Skill may (correct me if I am wrong) be using a PCB with eight layers with a total of, say, two ounces of copper? So yes, I have seated this memory on a Z370 setup. Above, Z370 on an ASUS STRIX motherboard, that's pretty much what that looks like with two DIMMs. Once you power up the PC the DIMMs jump into a default SPD configuration.  
 

Basically in the BIOS just flick the XMP 2.0 compatible profile, and you'll be up and running at advertised speeds. The memory itself is optimized for the Intel Z270 and Z370 platform with corresponding Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake architecture series processors. 

This memory is all about good looks so I decided to throw in these extra photos as the photo above says it all really. Our type of DIMMs have a black aluminum strip on the frontside and a subtle camo white/grey/black at the top.