Vibration for ram..

Hybrid_Dragon · 10-31-04, 12:40 PM

I have a custum made ram heat fan useing rubber bands around the clips on the ram and its holding a 80mm fan over 2 sticks of ram and its a little vibrateing, the fan is at like 2100 rpms not alot... and im just not sure if vibration is good or bad for ram, know if it is or isnt? thanks!

Know Nuttin · 10-31-04, 12:55 PM

the ram module itself won't be hurt but if it does vibrate enough, it's not good for the ram slots. Eventually, vibration usually leads to a bit of extra movement, where the contacts won't be very good.

Best to find a better way to mount the fan over the ram. I would perhaps look at taking a pci slot cover, bending it and attaching the fan to it, then find a way to mount it so it cools the ram.

IWasHungry · 10-31-04, 02:54 PM

You might wanna look at placing a thin piece of rubber or whathaveyou (something soft) between the fan edges and the RAM. Good luck.

wfarid · 10-31-04, 03:06 PM

yo could hot glue the ram sticks in place....

stan03 · 10-31-04, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by wfarid

yo could hot glue the ram sticks in place....

hotglue ram to the motherboard...

alinosa · 11-01-04, 10:41 AM

or you could mount the fan to a drive cage so it's not touching the ram... your drives vibrate anyway, so it probably is safe to add the vibrations of a fan... less extreme solution than gluing anything to the mobo...

10-31-04, 12:40 PM	Thread Starter #1
Hybrid_Dragon Registered Join Date: Sep 2004	Vibration for ram.. I have a custum made ram heat fan useing rubber bands around the clips on the ram and its holding a 80mm fan over 2 sticks of ram and its a little vibrateing, the fan is at like 2100 rpms not alot... and im just not sure if vibration is good or bad for ram, know if it is or isnt? thanks!
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10-31-04, 12:55 PM	#2
Know Nuttin Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada	the ram module itself won't be hurt but if it does vibrate enough, it's not good for the ram slots. Eventually, vibration usually leads to a bit of extra movement, where the contacts won't be very good. Best to find a better way to mount the fan over the ram. I would perhaps look at taking a pci slot cover, bending it and attaching the fan to it, then find a way to mount it so it cools the ram. __________________ AMD Phenom II X4 965BE, Asus M5A88-V Evo, 8GB Mushkin Blackline DDR3-1600 , Coolermaster Hyper212+, OCZ Vertex Plus 60GB, Seagate 7200.11 500GB, Antec EA-380 Lenovo X200, P8400 C2D, 8GB, 120GB OCZ Vertex 3.
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10-31-04, 02:54 PM	#3
IWasHungry Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Seattle, WA	You might wanna look at placing a thin piece of rubber or whathaveyou (something soft) between the fan edges and the RAM. Good luck.
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10-31-04, 03:06 PM	#4
wfarid Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: NJ	yo could hot glue the ram sticks in place.... __________________ Main rig Gigabyte EP45-UD3P (F9b)Q9550 @ 4ghz, 8 Gb G.Skill; 1.5 * 2 Seagate 7200.11 in Raid 1;HIS ATI Radeon 4870;Creative X-fi Fatal1ty Champion; PCP&C Silencer 750; Lian-Li PC-A20; HP LP2475W 24" Laptop: Asus Z63a 14" ; 1.7 Pentium M pin modded to 2.26 2 gigs of OCZ DDR II 533 Ram; 160gig, 8mb cache, 5400rpm hd; Atheros 5008, b/g/n; DL Dvd Burner MY HEAT
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11-01-04, 10:41 AM	#6
alinosa Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: San Antonio, TX	or you could mount the fan to a drive cage so it's not touching the ram... your drives vibrate anyway, so it probably is safe to add the vibrations of a fan... less extreme solution than gluing anything to the mobo... __________________ Intel Pentium4 640 @ 4000 MHz (250x16) stock volts MCP650>BIX3>Cathar Storm G4>MCW60>DangerDen 5.25" Res, tygon 7/16" pqi turbo ddr400 DFI Lanparty 875P-T powerstream 520 eVGA 6800U@ 465/1100 on an Acer 22 inch WS LCD Lian Li PC-G70B HEAT Lenovo T61p-> Desktop crushing machine.
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