memory temps

[bassmasta]

well, earlier yesterday I was supervising a die cast. the idea is that when our navy pays for a big floating metal thing, the 5000 people on it want to know that they weren't ripped off.... so someone always needs to go to the die cast plants and watch the dies set. well, anyway, while i was there i "skillfully aquired" one of their spare temp readers. it's like an ipod, except instead of headphones, at the end there is a sensor made out of some kind of teflon that can read temperatures up to 2000 degrees, at an accuracy of 0.00001 degrees.

so, I went and stuck the sensor between my top two ran sticks. the temps i get atm are 43 degrees celcius outer temp, 41 degrees celcius inner temp. i don't know how it figures out the inner temp, but i'll ask next time i'm at the plant. anyway, i've recently turned my ram off auto volts, and put it at 2.05. are these temps acceptable for kingston value ram? it's at 385 mhz, w 5-6-6-16-21 timings, and on a 1:8 divider

[3991vhtes]

memory temps shouldn't be a big worry.

[Ketxxx]

Memory is very sensative to heat and voltage these days. Pretty much any voltage over manufacturer specs will fry it fast. With any memory today I advise ghetto modding a small fan over both RAM sticks to keep them cool. Memory just doesnt have the resillience it used to like in the BH5 days.

[k0rn_h0li0]

but most days all ram comes with heatsink covers so you can add a fan on top of it without having to even though it. also there are heatsink covers that even tell temps but i don't know what they are called but those come in handy.

good luck with finding what the temps of your ram are

[Ketxxx]

True, however most RAM heatspreaders are more of a hinderence than a help.

[k0rn_h0li0]

yeah their more trouble putting them on than most think. now think of watercooling ram heatsinks thats even worse but who knows if they work well. anyways download like everest or something and cpuz to know latency and heat of ram

[bassmasta]

http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=013425&cid=RAM.835

http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=013495&cid=RAM.835

http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=014466&cid=RAM.835

http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=013918&cid=RAM.835

well, these are the cheapest 2gig kits i could find. most are mushkin {why are they so cheap?} but that patriot one has relaxed timings. is that because they are really crappier sticks overclocked, or do they expect you to overclock them?

[Namslas90]

You can always just "suspend" a 40mm fan over the Ram as a temporary thing to see if it will improve the situation. If it does then just get a mem cooler.

:toast:

[bassmasta]

actually, the memory temp thing was mostly out of curiosity, and after having my stock heatsink fan over the memory for a while, i didn't notice any difference in stability. at this point, i'm just trying to replace crappy ram. 4gb of kingston value ram.... $200 dollars down the drain.

[k0rn_h0li0]

you can sell 2 gigs of it and run it at dual channel sometimes your motherboard will take 4 but it will run at low latency. good luck with keeping the ram heat down and all that stuff

[bassmasta]

>.> it is on dual channel, but it's at high latency >.>