Ram

Bryan92 SG

Does installing more ram cause the temperature to rise?

alexkusu SG

yes

ndmmxiaomayi SG

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 SG

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

mochou SG

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 SG

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

sand king SG

more fans will do the trick

Bryan92 SG

My temp is 49 degree.Is it hot?

Bryan92 SG

Go the bios to check the temp

alexkusu SG

50 deg is normal..75 is overheated

fudgester SG

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.