Ramsinks on a ti4200 suppost to be hot?

[Sniper82]

I just bought a PNY Ti4200 and the ramsinks get warm to the touch. Well more than warm they get hot. You can hold your hand on them and them not burn but they seem hot though. Is this normal for a Ti4200 not overclocked? I'd be afraid to o/c it. I had a radeon 8500 OEM before and it ran cool. Not sure if GF4 just runs hot or what.

Thanks

 

[Sniper82]

no one knows?

 

[PliotronX]

That's a good sign, means they are doing their job (absorbing the heat). You may want to employ something like this to blow air over them to help the convection process move along (get that heat into the air and out of the case).

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: PliotronX
That's a good sign, means they are doing their job (absorbing the heat). You may want to employ something like this to blow air over them to help the convection process move along (get that heat into the air and out of the case).

Ditto.
Cooling the Ramsinks with fan, will help them dissipate heat faster/better, resulting in lower ram temperatures.

 

[Sniper82]

I ain't gonna give that kind of price for a card cooler. Although I can make one out of some brackets I have to spare. A drill and a Panaflo L1A should do the trick.

Thanks

 

[galt]

I have a PNY ti4200, and the thing with mine is that the exhaust from the hsf hits the ram hs directly. So even if the ram doesnt heat up, the exhaust from the gpu hsf makes them hot. The card runs fine, so I really dont care much for it.

 

[jiffylube1024]

I do think they should be warm/hot. It all depends on yield, manufacturer, etc but it seems some memory runs hot all the time, and some runs cool to the touch. My GF4 Ti4200 has 3.6ns Hynix memory I believe, and I run it at 600 MHz DDR all day, and it's fine. At this speed and at stock it's pretty warm. I had a 128MB GF4 Ti4200 with 4.0 ns memory (I forget the brand) and it ran cool to the touch even at 550 Mhz, which it topped out at.

Basically if your Ramsinks are warm, then they're doing their job and were probably necessary on that card, whereas some cards don't need them and others have them when they don't need them. That's how I see it anyways; I don't think it should be any worry to you (unless you're getting artifacts on your screen, of course).