How hot is PC1066 RDRAM?

[Biggs]

First of all, I didn't mean hot as in "she's hot!" but hot as in "toasty hot". I've only managed to stumble upon one article wherein the reviewer said it runs at, give or take, 51C! Holy mackarel, Batman! Is this the temperature ballpark I'm looking at?

For a "standard" case (bottom intake and rear exhaust), would the life of the surrounding components and the RDRAM itself get way too compromised, especially when living in a tropical country? Assuming one uses an already smoking hot Radeon 9800 Pro, a boiling hot 3.06 GHz P4 and a toasty hot i850e northbridge, the overall reliabily of the system is severely in hot water (pun intended), yes? In other words, how hot is too hot when using PC1066 RDRAM?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

build it..run it..temp probe(s) the comp and report back..

 

[fkloster]

I run my PC-800 @ PC-1066 and its warm to the touch @ best...

 

[RanDum72]

Just checked my PC1066. Feels lukewarm, hardly near 51c.

 

[Biggs]

Thanks for the input, folks, though I've found one site wherein the reviewer claims that the modules got inside the 40-50C range,

Kingston PC1066 RDRAM Memory Review

 

[Biggs]

*bump*

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: fkloster
I run my PC-800 @ PC-1066 and its warm to the touch @ best...

 

[Acanthus]

if you OC it to pc1200 and beyond it gets real hot to the touch, at PC1066 i have no problems.

 

[fkloster]

Ive got the understanding of a 4 year old

"Can't u trip like I do...." Filter & The Crystal Method

 

[dexvx]

Hah..

Remember all those rumors back in the i820/RDRam days? Some people on AT claimed that RDRam, with its new fangled heat-spreaders could burn your skin (increase system temp by double digits, etc), and that they would *never* buy ram that required a heat-spreader. Oh how the times have changed.

I'm sure fkloster would remember. He bought the i820/RDRam combo and got teased endlessly.

 

[fkloster]

Originally posted by: dexvx
Hah..

Remember all those rumors back in the i820/RDRam days? Some people on AT claimed that RDRam, with its new fangled heat-spreaders could burn your skin (increase system temp by double digits, etc), and that they would *never* buy ram that required a heat-spreader. Oh how the times have changed.

Where is Zippy? lmao how so many people have been mislead to believe rambus was evil. I remember I was the first Anandtecher to buy and Asus P3C-E / 256mb PC-800 combo back when the 440BX was king. Wow people tea'd off on my ass! I still have that rig I have a slot-1 P3 1GHZ/133 stuck in it right now

 

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: fkloster

Originally posted by: dexvx
Hah..

Remember all those rumors back in the i820/RDRam days? Some people on AT claimed that RDRam, with its new fangled heat-spreaders could burn your skin (increase system temp by double digits, etc), and that they would *never* buy ram that required a heat-spreader. Oh how the times have changed.

Where is Zippy? lmao how so many people have been mislead to believe rambus was evil. I remember I was the first Anandtecher to buy and Asus P3C-E / 256mb PC-800 combo back when the 440BX was king. Wow people tea'd off on my ass! I still have that rig I have a slot-1 P3 1GHZ/133 stuck in it right now

yeah dammit, but you traded my P3-800 for it!

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: fkloster

Originally posted by: dexvx
Hah..

Remember all those rumors back in the i820/RDRam days? Some people on AT claimed that RDRam, with its new fangled heat-spreaders could burn your skin (increase system temp by double digits, etc), and that they would *never* buy ram that required a heat-spreader. Oh how the times have changed.

Where is Zippy? lmao how so many people have been mislead to believe rambus was evil. I remember I was the first Anandtecher to buy and Asus P3C-E / 256mb PC-800 combo back when the 440BX was king. Wow people tea'd off on my ass! I still have that rig I have a slot-1 P3 1GHZ/133 stuck in it right now

I have the same board with 256MB PC800, its upgraded with a slotket Tualatin 1.0 Ghz @ 1.33 Ghz (256KB L2). Runs like as fast as my AXP / DDR system, and it has the 1/2 AGP multiplier.

 

[RanDum72]

I remember I was the first Anandtecher to buy and Asus P3C-E / 256mb PC-800 combo back when the 440BX was king.

I still have this combo, except mine is the P3C-LS version (with Ultra 160SCSI and LAN) and upgraded with an Upgradeware Slot-T and Tualatin 1.266ghz with 512k cache. I recently sold a P3C-E and another P3C-LS here at AT. The newer versions of the P3C series (flashed to the latest BIOS) are actually FASTER than some 840-chipset boards despite being single channel RDRAM only (tested it against an Intel OR840 board). Its also rock stable and has never given me any problems.