Why is my RAM so hot?

[Fun Guy]

Running prime95 on my rig and the two 1Ghz CPUs are just lukewarm. Meanwhile, the RAM is hot enough to fry an egg on. What gives?

 

[erikiksaz]

I take it that you probably didn't touch the actual surface of the CPU? If you did, your finger would probably have been burnt right onto the silicon.

 

[Jerboy]

<< Running prime95 on my rig and the two 1Ghz CPUs are just lukewarm. Meanwhile, the RAM is hot enough to fry an egg on. What gives? >>



RAM shouldn't get much hotter than our body temp. Mine doesn't even feel warm. Are you overclocking it?

 

[VBboy]

Is your FSB severely overclocked?

Also, it could just be that the CPU coolers blow hot air away from the CPU but onto the RAM, warming it up.

 

[bacillus]

are you using the board's default voltage for your ram?

 

[KEV1N]

Dude, maybe the fan on your cpu heatsink is blowing hot air onto your ram.

 

[Fun Guy]

Nothing is overclocked. FSB is 133Mhz. Didn't even know I could change voltage on RAM, so it must be default. No cover on the box yet, so no hot air coming from anywhere.

Anyone else? This is troubling me.

 

[sharkeeper]

As long as you're not getting memory errors, I wouldn't worry about it. The memory on a RADEON 8500 was measured with an IR thermometer at over 55°C! This was default speed, no overclocking! I have a machine with 2048 MB of Corsair registered ECC DDR memory running at 2.52 volts and 133 MHz and the chips are also quite hot. (45°C)

Cheers!

 

[Mingon]

If you are that worried buy some thermaltake ram coolers. They stopped 2 of my memory chips from overheating when I had mistakenly set the voltage at 3.0v (ddr memory).

 

[RazeOrc]

Hot?? you DDR users are so lucky, RDRAM runs 50+Cish STANDARD and under load with no cooling can reach 65+C, NOW THAT's HOT. Currently mine runs much cooler by about 10+C cause i have a fan blowing on them, if you're worried about head buy a $13 ramsink+fan for those sticks from Newegg