Ram doesnt emit heat, right?

Erukian · Feb 23, 2004, 05:23 PM

I heard somewhere that the GPU/VPU is the only heat producing thing on a vid card, that the heat travels through the Vid Card PCB into the ram chips and they get hot. And if you have really good GPU/VPU cooling then you dont need ram sinks.

Is this hocus-pocus? Seems to make sense, since RAM isnt actually calculating anything, just holding 1's and 0's.

Zebra · Feb 23, 2004, 05:33 PM

Actually, there are voltages and active signals going through your memory all the time. Yes, they do generate heat.

drakesteakn · Feb 23, 2004, 05:56 PM

RAM produce heat, they do have current running through them.

GutterPunk · Feb 23, 2004, 10:37 PM

They generate plenty of heat otherwise ram sinks for vid cards would be asinine

No_Style · Feb 23, 2004, 10:45 PM

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Originally posted by Erukian
I heard somewhere that the GPU/VPU is the only heat producing thing on a vid card, that the heat travels through the Vid Card PCB into the ram chips and they get hot. And if you have really good GPU/VPU cooling then you dont need ram sinks.

Is this hocus-pocus? Seems to make sense, since RAM isnt actually calculating anything, just holding 1's and 0's.

Those 1's and 0's are set on and off by electric current.

Good guess though

Are you planning to get RAMsinks for a vid card? If so, which card?

GutterPunk · Feb 23, 2004, 10:57 PM

ram sinks are nice for any card u wanna OC

im gonna get them when i get a decent card for sure

Erukian · Feb 24, 2004, 03:09 AM

I have the VGA Silencer right now, i have a 430/375 overclock

My board is a Sapp. 9800 pro 128mb

No_Style · Feb 24, 2004, 11:56 AM

Good luck and post your results.

dorkz · Feb 24, 2004, 02:30 PM

Yes ram does produce heat, but I dont think anything dangerous. You can buy RAM sinks for your modules...

CDsDontBurn · Feb 24, 2004, 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Erukian
I heard somewhere that the GPU/VPU is the only heat producing thing on a vid card, that the heat travels through the Vid Card PCB into the ram chips and they get hot. And if you have really good GPU/VPU cooling then you dont need ram sinks.

I bought some ThermalTake heat sinks to place on my 9700pro. Was up until 7am cutting them to fit on my 9700pro (some little squares wouldn't let them fit). Went to install back in MoBo, and 2 capacitors on my MoBo wouldn't allow one of the heat sinks to fit ultimately having one of the heat sinks popping out. By then i was too tired to care about the placement of the heat sink. Next time i'm going to make them just small squares to fit exactly over the memory modules.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Feb 24, 2004, 05:08 PM

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Originally posted by d4rkz
Yes ram does produce heat, but I dont think anything dangerous. You can buy RAM sinks for your modules...

unless you o/c then then it's heatsink time!

I add heatsinks to help with even greater stabilty

for exaple ddr pc2700 can feel warm to the touch so on a video card their gonna be a bit toasty

Logla · Feb 24, 2004, 05:17 PM

I got Tweakmonster RAMsinks on my ATi 9800Pro. Got an extra 25Mhz out of the RAM on the card as opposed to with no RAMsinks. And they look a bit cool through a case window.