Ram

• Bryan92

  18 May 06, 20:29

  Does installing more ram cause the temperature to rise?
• alexkusu

  18 May 06, 20:37

  yes
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 May 06, 22:08

  Yes, but if you do the same amount of work with more RAM, it will be faster and temperature difference will not be significant.
• Gordonator

  19 May 06, 12:18

  RAMs with lesser black IC chips on them doesn't generate as much as heat as those with many IC chips right?
• mochou

  19 May 06, 17:05

  i have temperature problems too.
  
  My processor is P3.2, the original fan is ok, cos i touch the back of the motherboard where the CPU is, it's not very hot. And i check the temp from bios screen, it's also not very hot too.
  the metal plate on my gfx card are cool, not even warm.
  my 2X512RAM are warm, not "hot".
  
  But some other parts of my motherboard when i touch it, its freaking hot.
  Things that i do are:
  Normal system processes,
  Bitcomet in background downloading stuff(up to 10 downloads),
  Anti-virus(kapasky, how to spell?),
  and play 3D games(NFS9/Dungeon lord/Juiced) while those things running in background.
  
  Anyone have any idea how to prevent it?
  Or what i do is do heavy?
  If it's because of the 3D games, why my gfx card(256VRAM) is not hot?
  
  
• Manager433

  19 May 06, 17:13

  I'm using P3 933mhz. How to check the temp? Byw, my pc os is XP pro sp2.
  
  
• sand king

  19 May 06, 17:34

  more fans will do the trick
• Bryan92

  19 May 06, 20:49

  My temp is 49 degree.Is it hot?
• Bryan92

  19 May 06, 20:53

  Originally posted by Manager433:

  I'm using P3 933mhz. How to check the temp? Byw, my pc os is XP pro sp2.
  
  

  Go the bios to check the temp
• alexkusu

  19 May 06, 20:56

  50 deg is normal..75 is overheated
• fudgester

  19 May 06, 20:57

  If you're using a laptop, it might be worthwhile to invest in a cooling pad.
  
  And yes, I did notice the laptop getting hotter after adding another RAM chip.
  
  I can really feel the heat after a while if I don't use a cooling pad. I use an active cooling pad (with two fans) at home, and Speedballs when on the move.