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How can I monitor Ram temprature?
- Thread starter dofey
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With an IR thermometer or a surface mounted thermistor.
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This is how you normally respond to people that take the time to try and help you?ok smartass, is it possible to use a software for monitoring my ram temp?
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Take it easy on the guy. He just joined today, he will be here for a week and leave or get a nice ban.
heck yes! I have a fan blowing on my ram. rated at 2.2V got it running at 2.3 cause of OC and it runs warm but not hot.
heck yes! I have a fan blowing on my ram. rated at 2.2V got it running at 2.3 cause of OC and it runs warm but not hot.
b/c the CPU has sensors built in to it that the bios reads and therefore software reads while ram does not.
**waits for a "smart ***" comment being tossed at me**
**waits for a "smart ***" comment being tossed at me**
We are. I could have not replied or told him to shove it. Instead I said settle down.
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you can buy one of those digital thermals with the plastic sensor tip, take the heatspreader off and then paste it in the middle =p
i havnt tried it and its only a random suggestion
i havnt tried it and its only a random suggestion
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Ram doesn't get hot enough to matter. The heatspreaders that come with it are not even necessary. It's just all about the eye candy and the epeen.
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My brother's Pentium-D case would beg to argue with you. Oddly enough the RAM slots on his system actually do have temperature sensors. Under gaming load they get to ~43C, but they're running at like 2.1V so..
Mine usually hover around 30C max with an IR thermometer at 1.9V.
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Every rule has it's exceptions, but by and large, ram does not need cooling, and it's temperature is not something worth monitoring, save for those amongst us for which the OCD demands it.
I do not advocate removing heatspreaders for the reasons JamesXP mentioned. They don't hurt anything, I just don't think there's much point in considering them "functional"
My OCZ Platinum is warm to the touch. I do not lose any sleep over it. I have a fan set (came with it free) I could put on it, but I don't.
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Heat spreaders are necessary.
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Yeah I agree that it's not worth paying attention to for the most part. I was pointing out that if you have a particularly hot-running system in a smallish case it might be a good idea to look into active cooling, or at least making sure that the chips have basic heatspreaders (not that it's necessary to have the crazy OCZ/Corsair tower ram coolers unless you're overclocking them well beyond normal speeds and voltages). At the very least heatspreaders make normal case cooling more effective by creating more surface area to catch airflow.
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